Raymond Carver, known in some circles as the godfather of minimalism, has been credited by many as the rejuvenator of the once-dying American short story. (See the link on this page to a 2008 "Kenyon Review" story that discusses the recent controversy over the editing of Carver s stories.) Drawing on representative tales from each of Carver s major volumes of fiction, Nesset s critical exploration leads us deep into the heart of Carver country, an eerie post-industrial world of low-rent survivors. In the earliest fiction, the politics of sex are tied to politics of fortune and chance;...
Raymond Carver, known in some circles as the godfather of minimalism, has been credited by many as the rejuvenator of the once-dying American short st...
Eugenio Montejo was one of the most significant Latin American poets and essayists of the past half century. Montejo (who died in 2008) was awarded both the National Prize for Literature in his native Venezuela and the prestigious Octavio Paz International Poetry and Essay Prize. This long-overdue volume offers selections from all ten of Montejo s books of poetry, as well as a handful of exemplary prose works. All of the selections are presented here in the original Spanish, with translations in English by Kirk Nesset, a prize-winning American writer and poet.
"Alphabet of the World...
Eugenio Montejo was one of the most significant Latin American poets and essayists of the past half century. Montejo (who died in 2008) was awarded...
Kirk Nesset's "Saint X" chronicles the muted joy and despair of a millennial age, charting love's ills and the grind of mortality. His figures are bizarre but familiar: people born under punches, shaken awake by rattles and flares, latter-day pilgrims who stare at the statue that stares at America; people for whom disobedience is still a first duty, and death but a question of style. Wearing bandages rather than smiles, they're misshapen champions downed by self-bludgeons, perversely on foot while the saddled horse follows--and yet in each case, in each poem, they are honored if not saved by...
Kirk Nesset's "Saint X" chronicles the muted joy and despair of a millennial age, charting love's ills and the grind of mortality. His figures are biz...
