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The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art

10 best books like The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (Eileen Myles): Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft, Sleeping With the Dictionary, Ways of Seeing, Coeur de Lion, To the Wedding, About Looking, G., Modern Life, Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
AuthorAndrea Lawlor
ISBN0986086991
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul’s also got a secret: he’s a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from...
Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft
AuthorTony Hoagland
ISBN1555974554
The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me


Meanness, the very thing that is unforgivable in human social life, in poetry is thrilling and valuable. Why? Because the willingness to be offensive sets free the ruthless...
Sleeping With the Dictionary
AuthorHarryette Mullen
ISBN0520231430
Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions,...
Ways of Seeing
AuthorJohn Berger
ISBN0140135154
John Berger’s Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener...
Coeur de Lion
AuthorAriana Reines
ISBN0615181341
Now that I am not addressing you But the “you” of poetry I am probably doing something horrible and destructive.
But this “I” is the I of poetry And it should be able to do more than I can do. Just a few months after the publication of her prize-winning, instant classic debut The Cow, Ariana Reines...
To the Wedding
AuthorJohn Berger
ISBN0679767770
QUESTIONE DI SGUARDI
La scrittura di Berger mi ha subito avvolto, familiare, ma senza privarmi di stupore.
Questa volta mi ha sollevato e trasportato in un viaggio alla fonte del mito e del tempo.

Un viaggio fatto di nomi epici scelti con cura.

Di geografie dello spazio e della...
About Looking
AuthorJohn Berger
ISBN0679736557
As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see....
G.
AuthorJohn Berger
ISBN0679736549
In this luminous novel — winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize — John Berger relates the story of "G.," a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and...
Modern Life
AuthorMatthea Harvey
ISBN1555974805
Matthea Harvey's Modern Life introduces a new voice that tries to exist in the gray area between good and evil, love and hate. In the central sequences, "The Future of Terror" and "The Terror of the Future," Harvey imagines citizens and soldiers at the end of their wits at the impending end of the world....
Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry
AuthorGotthold Ephraim Lessing
ISBN0801831393
حاول الناقد الإلماني ليسنج في كتابه "لاؤوكون" أن يرد الشعر إلى فلسفة زمانية، والتصوير إلى فلسفة مكانية في محاولة لرصد أوجه الاختلاف بينهما، وقد دفعه ذلك...
Antipoems: How to Look Better and Feel Great
AuthorNicanor Parra
ISBN0811215970
"Real seriousness," Nicanor Parra, the antipoet of Chile, has said, rests in "the comic." And read in that light, this newest collection of his work is very serious indeed. It is an abundant offering of his signature mocking humor, subverting received conventions, and pretensions in both poetry and...
On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poemas frente al mar (Bilingual)
AuthorPablo Neruda
ISBN0060591846
Aunque existe un sinnúmero de antologías de la poesía de Neruda, A la Orilla Azul del Silencio es la primera en reunir algunos de sus más bellos poemas sobre el mar. Algunas veces apasionados, otras veces serenos, los poemas de este libro -- presentado en formato bilingüe -- ofrecen al lector la...
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
AuthorMark Doty
ISBN0807066095
Although at first glance this slim volume appears to be a quick read, it should be lingered over and reread to uncover the full depth of its beauty and insight. Combining memoir with artistic and philosophical musings, the poet and National Book Critics Circle Award winner (for My Alexandria) begins...
A Plea for Eros: Essays
AuthorSiri Hustvedt
ISBN0312425538
From the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers.

Whether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing, or the novel, Hustvedt's nonfiction, like her fiction, defies easy...
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