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The Six-cornered Snowflake and Other Poems

Author : John Frederick Nims
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811211437
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The Six-cornered Snowflake and Other Poems written by John Frederick Nims and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a preeminent modernist poet and translator of the classics, John Frederick Nims's work is an elegant fusion of contemporary sensibility with formalist experimentation. But form, for this writer of meditative verse, is only a helpmeet to the quintessential content of the poem, the meaning that gives it value in our time and, one hopes, beyond. Concerning the formal elements of poetry, Nims comments: "One might say they are like the scaffolding at a construction site, meant to be thrown away and not regarded once the building is completed." In his newest collection, The Six-Cornered Snowflake, his poems range through an astonishing variety of complex structures: the shaped-poem of the title work, the sestina, the vocal "Pindar's lattice" of the "First Olympian Ode," the nervous galliambics of "Catullus 63"--just to name a few. As William Pritchard, writing for The New York Times Book Review, so aptly observed, "Mr. Nims has consistently had the nerve to be interested in what language could be made to do, rather than what the psyche would be made to reveal."

The Six-Cornered Snowflake

Author : Johannes Kepler
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 1589882857
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book The Six-Cornered Snowflake written by Johannes Kepler and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1611, Kepler wrote an essay wondering why snowflakes always had perfect, sixfold symmetry. It's a simple enough question, but one that no one had ever asked before and one that couldn't actually be answered for another three centuries. Still, in trying to work out an answer, Kepler raised some fascinating questions about physics, math, and biology, and now you can watch in wonder as a great scientific genius unleashes the full force of his intellect on a seemingly trivial question, complete with new illustrations and essays to put it all in perspective."—io9, from their list "10 Amazing Science Books That Reveal The Wonders Of The Universe" When snow began to fall while he was walking across the Charles Bridge in Prague late in 1610, the eminent astronomer Johannes Kepler asked himself the following question: Why do snowflakes, when they first fall, and before they are entangled into larger clumps, always come down with six corners and with six radii tufted like feathers? In his effort to answer this charming and never-before-asked question about snowflakes, Kepler delves into the nature of beehives, peapods, pomegranates, five-petaled flowers, the spiral shape of the snail's shell, and the formative power of nature itself. While he did not answer his original question—it remained a mystery for another three hundred years—he did find an occasion for deep and playful thought. "A most suitable book for any and all during the winter and holiday seasons is a reissue of a holiday present by the great mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler…Even the endnotes in this wonderful little book are interesting and educationally fun to read."—Jay Pasachoff, The Key Reporter —New English translation by Jacques Bromberg —Latin text on facing pages —An essay, "The Delights of a Roving Mind" by Owen Gingerich —An essay, "On The Six-Cornered Snowflake" by Guillermo Bleichmar —Snowflake illustrations by Capi Corrales Rodriganez —John Frederick Nims' poem "The Six-Cornered Snowflake" —Notes by Jacques Bromberg and Guillermo Bleichmar

One Arm and Other Stories

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811202237
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book One Arm and Other Stories written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1967 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the eleven remarkable stories of Tennessee Williams's first volume of short fiction, originally published in 1948 and reissued as a paperbook in response to an increasingly insistent public demand. It was this book which established Williams as a short story writer of the same stature and interest he had shown as a dramatist. Each story has qualities that make it memorable. In "One Arm" we live through his last hours and memories with a 'rough trade" ex-prizefighter who is awaiting execution for murder. "The Field of Blue Children" explores some of the strange ways of the human heart in love, "Portrait of a Girl in Glass" is a luminous and nostalgic recollection of characters who figure in "The Glass Menagerie," while "Desire and the Black Masseur" is an excursion into the logic of the macabre. "The Yellow Bird," well known through the author's recorded reading of it, which tells of a minister's daughter who found a particularly violent but satisfactory way of expiating a load of inherited puritan guilt, may well become part of American mythology.

World Beat

Author : Eliot Weinberger
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811216517
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book World Beat written by Eliot Weinberger and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poets are presented in ample selections so that each may be heard clearly, and biographical and bibliographical notes invite further investigation. From cover to cover, themes ebb and flow and boundaries blur as verses converse in a harmony unusual for the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.

Poetry

Author : Harriet Monroe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Poetry written by Harriet Monroe and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poems for the Game of Silence

Author : Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811214612
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Poems for the Game of Silence written by Jerome Rothenberg and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I look for new forms and possibilities," writes Jerome Rothenberg in Poems for the Game of Silence, "but also for ways of presenting in my own language the oldest possibilities of poetry going back to the primitive and archaic cultures that have been opening up to us over the last hundred years." It is this combined sense of mystery and authenticity, in words and new structures that approach archetypal chant, that informs his poetry. First published in 1971, this volume brings together a selection of Rothenberg's early groundbreaking work: a wide range of experimental forms, both written and oral, set beside renderings of Native American, Australian, and other primitive songs, as well as the ancestral poems exploring his own origins that look forward to his later poetry.

Selected Poems

Author : Robert Duncan
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213455
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems written by Robert Duncan and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertholf's selections are so attuned to the essentials of Duncan's writing that even those familiar with the whole body of Duncan's work will become more sensitized to his recurring imagery and consistency of thought pattern throughout this collection. --Publishers Weekly.

Poetry

Author : Jayne E. Marek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Poetry written by Jayne E. Marek and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Winter Facets

Author : Andrea Dortmann
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039105403
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Winter Facets written by Andrea Dortmann and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a variety of close readings, this book analyzes the use of ice and snow motifs in selected literary, scientific, and philosophical texts by a wide range of European authors from Johannes Kepler to Thomas Mann. The focus of the book is on German literature. While the metaphorical significance of cold imagery has been studied by various scholars, the close relationship between figurations of the cold and writing or reading has so far been overlooked. Compared with other instances of «reading the book of nature», stars or stones for example, the unstable status of snow or ice configurations also renders their literary representation problematic. This inherent tension accounts for the attraction snow and ice have exerted on authors to this day. Particular attention is paid to those texts that negotiate the close rapport between the fragile literary object and the fragile status of language and readability, thus exposing the «fragile legibility» of snow and ice motifs. This focus allows us to address more general issues, such as the shifting status of the aesthetic at the intersection of older natural history and the emergence of modern science; the apocalyptic; and the melancholic implications of cold imagery.

A Russian Doll and Other Stories

Author : Adolfo Bioy Casares
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811212120
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book A Russian Doll and Other Stories written by Adolfo Bioy Casares and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of traditional and experimental stories by Argentinian novelist Bioy Casares ( The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata ) offers sophisticated, seamless prose, as well as magical realism and biting political satire. - Publishers Weekly

The Philosopher's Window

Author : Allen R. Grossman
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213004
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Philosopher's Window written by Allen R. Grossman and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The speaker of The Philosopher's Window and Other Poems, Allen Grossman tells us, is "an old man compelled by the insistent questioning of the children to explain himself"--and in this way, the world. He begins with creation ("The Great Work Farm Elegy"), recalls the romantic quest of youth ("The Philosopher's Window"), returns to reality ("The Snowfall" and "Whoever Builds"). His tales told, the old man wakes in a stormy springtime ("June, June"), "when the lilacs are gone." Grossman's allegory of life's journey, at once sonorous and antic, takes in the high and the low in these new visionary songs of innocence and experience. Allen Grossman is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. He counts among his many honors and awards MacArthur, Guggenheim, and NEA fellowships, the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry, and the PEN-Sheaffer/New England Award for Literary Distinction. The Philosopher's Window is his eighth book of poetry. His previous collection, The Ether Dome & Other Poems New and Selected (1991), was a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee.

Roots and Branches

Author : Robert Duncan
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200349
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Roots and Branches written by Robert Duncan and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1969 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roots and Branches, Robert Duncan's second major book of poetry (first published in 1964) is now reissued.

Myths & Texts

Author : Gary Snyder
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811206860
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Myths & Texts written by Gary Snyder and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1978 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Snyder's second collection, Myths & Texts, was originally published in 1960 by Totem Press. It is now reissued by New Directions in this completely revised format, with an introduction by the author.

Stairs to the Roof

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811214353
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Stairs to the Roof written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A play produced only twice in the 1940s and now published for the first time reveals that Tennessee Williams anticipated the themes of Star Trek by decades.

Five Plays; Comedies and Tragicomedies

Author : Federico García Lorca
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200905
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Five Plays; Comedies and Tragicomedies written by Federico García Lorca and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1963 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two additional comedies, published here in book form in English for the first time, are The Billy-Club Puppets -- a guignol-type farce with delicate wit; and The Butterfly's Evil Spell, an "insect comedy" about a beetle-poet who aspires to be a butterfly.

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811207577
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1980 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this masterful play, Tennessee Williams explores the meaning of loneliness and the need for human connection through the lens of four women and the designs and desires they harbor--for themselves and for each other.

The German Lesson

Author : Siegfried Lenz
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811209823
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The German Lesson written by Siegfried Lenz and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The German Lesson marks a double triumph--a book of rare depth and brilliance, to begin with, presented in an English version that succeeds against improbable odds in conveying the full power of the original." --Ernst Pawel, New York Times Book Review