Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet" series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing "found material."
Excerpts:
It was given to me, in the nineteenth century, to spend a lifetime on this earth. Along with a few of the sorrow that are appointed unto men, I have had innumerable enjoyments and the world has been to me, even from childhood, a great museum
Lydia Davis
Bad rapids. Bradley is knocked over the side; his foot catches under the seat and he is dragged, head under water. Camped o a sand beach, the wind blows a...
Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet" series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing "found material."
The Green Child is the only novel by Herbert Read the famous English poet, anarchist, and literary critic. First published by New Directions in 1948, it remains a singular work of bewildering imagination and radiance. The author considered it a philosophical myth akin to Plato s cave.
Olivero, the former dictator of a South American country, has returned to his native England after faking his own assassination. On a walk he sees, through a cottage window, a green-skinned young girl tied to a chair. He watches in horror as the kidnapper forces the girl to drink lamb s blood...
The Green Child is the only novel by Herbert Read the famous English poet, anarchist, and literary critic. First published by New Directi...
The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into -a vortex for the entire universe- (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger chronicles a nineteenth-century journey down the Colorado River, records the dreams of people named Chang, and shares other factually verifiable discoveries that seem too fabulous to possibly be true. The second section collects Weinberger's essays on a wide range of subjects--some of which have been published in...
The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An El...
