wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Update on the Descent
ISBN: 9780268031084 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Update on the Descent, Ellen Hinsey draws on personal experience and family tragedy to forge a masterful meditation on the extremes of the human condition. A poet who situates herself in a landscape steeped in the tragic history and artistic splendor of Europe, Hinsey suffuses her work with the urgency of historical memory. Alternating lyrics, aphorism, anti-lyrics, and philosophical notebooks, she explores the nature of terror, war, tyranny, and violence as well as reconciliation and renewal of the human spirit. Called by Carolyn Forche, "A true poet, whose sense of... In Update on the Descent, Ellen Hinsey draws on personal experience and family tragedy to forge a masterful meditation on the extrem... |
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109,81 zł |
The White Fire of Time
ISBN: 9780819565570 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this exquisitely coherent new collection of poems, Ellen Hinsey explores the boundary between poetry and metaphysics, and the intimate bonds between morality and mortality. Drawing on philosophical and spiritual readings, The White Fire of Time displays a breadth of cultural knowledge and a deep understanding of the wisdom of the body. The poems in this book-length sequence are gorgeous, brooding, musical, elegant and serious. The work is composed in three sections: The World, meditations on the ordinary, the daily life of the body and its place in nature and time; The Temple,...
In this exquisitely coherent new collection of poems, Ellen Hinsey explores the boundary between poetry and metaphysics, and the intimate bonds betwee...
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69,50 zł |
The Invisible Fugue
ISBN: 9781961741089 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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117,61 zł |
The Secret Piano: From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations
ISBN: 9781611090772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Zhu Xiao-Mei was three years old when she saw her first piano, a cherished instrument introduced into her family s Beijing home by her mother. Soon after, the child began to play, developing quickly into a prodigy who immersed herself in the work of such classical masters as Bach and Brahms. Her astonishing proficiency earned her a spot at the Beijing Conservatory at the tender age of eleven, where she began laying the foundation for a promising career as a concert pianist. But in 1966, with the onset of the Cultural Revolution, life as she knew it ended abruptly. The Communist Party s...
Zhu Xiao-Mei was three years old when she saw her first piano, a cherished instrument introduced into her family s Beijing home by her mother. Soon af...
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45,78 zł |
Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova
ISBN: 9781580465861 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European tradition of works such as Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz and Aleksander Wat's classic My Century. Taking the form of an extended interview with Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova, the book interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature. Venclova, who personally knew Akhmatova, Pasternak, Milosz, Brodsky, and many others, was also one of the five founding members of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group, one of the first human rights organizations in Eastern Europe. Magnetic North provides an in-depth...
Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European tradition of works such as Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz and Aleksande...
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207,48 zł |
The Illegal Age
ISBN: 9781911469377 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Ellen Hinsey's new book-length sequence, The Illegal Age, is a powerful investigation into the twentieth-century's dark legacy of totalitarianism and the rise of political illegality. It explores the enduring potential for human beings to set neighbour against neighbour and commit final acts of violence. A book of lyrical reflection and prophesy, The Illegal Age chronicles the arrival of a new, disquieting reality unfolding in our midst. As Marilyn Hacker has written, "In dialogue with Celan, Szymborska, Milosz... this is a daring text - for its political acuity, and for its demonstration...
Ellen Hinsey's new book-length sequence, The Illegal Age, is a powerful investigation into the twentieth-century's dark legacy of totalitarianism and ...
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55,97 zł |
Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova
ISBN: 9781580469265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature to expand our understanding of the significance of this important Lithuanian writer.
Interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature to expand our understanding of the significance of this important Lithuanian ...
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171,12 zł |