The Tennis Court Oath
9 best books like The Tennis Court Oath (John Ashbery): Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family, Libra, Amerika, A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy, Bettyville, Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum), Tender Buttons
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.
Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are...
Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
| Author | Mitchell S. Jackson |
| ISBN | 1501131702 |
An electrifying, dazzlingly written reckoning and an essential addition to the national conversation about race and class, Survival Math takes its name from the calculations award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson made to survive the Portland, Oregon, of his youth. This dynamic book explores...
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 0140156046 |
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K
In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who...
| Author | Franz Kafka |
| ISBN | 0805210644 |
Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind...
| Author | Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| ISBN | 0811200418 |
This is one of the best-selling poetry books of all time, and, although that is no guarantee of poetic excellence—after all, Rod McKuen and Martin Farquar Tupper both sold a lot of books in their day—it is a sign that the author had his finger on the pulse of his time, that his work embodies the yearnings...
| Author | Mina Loy |
| ISBN | 0374525072 |
Mina Loy has been perplexingly absent from British literary history. In America she has been posthumously launched as the electric-age Blake, she has been translated into French and Italian to great acclaim, and in the Times Literary Supplement Thom Gunn compared her to the great Augustan satirists....
| Author | George Hodgman |
| ISBN | 0525427201 |
When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself—an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook—in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can’t bring...
Holy Moly Carry Me (American Poets Continuum)
| Author | Erika Meitner |
| ISBN | 1942683626 |
Erika Meitner’s fifth collection of poetry plumbs human resilience and grit in the face of disaster, loss, and uncertainty. These narrative poems take readers into the heart of southern Appalachia—its highways and strip malls and gun culture, its fragility and danger—as the speaker wrestles...
| Author | Gertrude Stein |
| ISBN | 0486298973 |
Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's "hermetic" works. It is a small book separated into three sections - Food, Objects and Rooms each containing prose under subtitles. (Kellner, 1988, p. 61-62). Its publication in 1914 caused a great dispute between Mabel Dodge Luhan and Gertrude,...
