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Hotel Imperium

Author : Rachel Loden
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820331708
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Hotel Imperium written by Rachel Loden and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in deep and thoughtful awareness, this complex collection of poems combines history, sexuality, pop culture, and political experience with edgy, wry, often absurd humor and an underlying penchant for the macabre. Rachel Loden employs both strict and innovative forms in poetry that explores the post-Cold War unease that follows a century of harrowing conflicts. These contradictory elements flower in poems drawn from the ethereal world of pop myths and fairy tales that simultaneously unfold a reality full of absence and mystery. Speaking as intimately of the fall of the Soviet Union as they do of the cinematic crimes and misdemeanors of Woody Allen or the redemptive passion of Little Richard, their tone ranges from the furious to the elegiac, with a comic edge that borrows as much from the gallows as it does from the Borscht Belt. As rich in rhyme, music, and literary allusion as it is in multifaceted meaning, Hotel Imperium presents a surprising blend of sophistication, playfulness, and haunting truths.

Imperium

Author : Christian Kracht
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374175241
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Imperium written by Christian Kracht and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A satirical indictment of extremism follows the exploits of a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg who voyages to 1902's Bismarck Archipelago to establish a colony based on the worship of the sun and coconuts.

Consumers' Imperium

Author : Kristin L. Hoganson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807888885
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Consumers' Imperium written by Kristin L. Hoganson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histories of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era tend to characterize the United States as an expansionist nation bent on Americanizing the world without being transformed itself. In Consumers' Imperium, Kristin Hoganson reveals the other half of the story, demonstrating that the years between the Civil War and World War I were marked by heightened consumption of imports and strenuous efforts to appear cosmopolitan. Hoganson finds evidence of international connections in quintessentially domestic places--American households. She shows that well-to-do white women in this era expressed intense interest in other cultures through imported household objects, fashion, cooking, entertaining, armchair travel clubs, and the immigrant gifts movement. From curtains to clothing, from around-the-world parties to arts and crafts of the homelands exhibits, Hoganson presents a new perspective on the United States in the world by shifting attention from exports to imports, from production to consumption, and from men to women. She makes it clear that globalization did not just happen beyond America's shores, as a result of American military might and industrial power, but that it happened at home, thanks to imports, immigrants, geographical knowledge, and consumer preferences. Here is an international history that begins at home.

The Last Party

Author : Anthony Haden-Guest
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497695554
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Last Party written by Anthony Haden-Guest and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting memoir of disco-era nightlife and the outrageous goings-on behind the doors of New York City’s most famous and exclusive nightclub In the disco days and nights of New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, the place to be was Studio 54. Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, and Bianca Jagger were among the nightly assortment of A-list celebrity regulars consorting with New York’s young, wild, and beautiful. Studio 54 was a place where almost nothing was taboo, from nonstop dancing and drinking beneath the coke-dusted neon moon to drugs and sex in the infamous unisex restrooms to the outrageous money-skimming activities taking place in the office of the studio’s flamboyant co-owner Steve Rubell. Author Anthony Haden-Guest was there on opening night in 1977 and over the next decade spent many late nights and early mornings basking in the strobe-lit wonder. But The Last Party is much more than a fascinating account of the scandals, celebrities, crimes, and extreme excesses encouraged within the notorious Manhattan nightspot. Haden-Guest brings an entire era of big-city glitz and unapologetic hedonism to breathtaking life, recalling a vibrant New York night world at once exhilarating and dangerous before the terrible, sobering dawn of the age of AIDS.

Civilian Histories

Author : Lee Upton
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820321851
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Civilian Histories written by Lee Upton and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upton's poems about dreams transform the often mundane qualitiy of life in an overly materialistic America into something imaginative and spiritual. --Andy Brumer, The New York Times Book Review.

Mead

Author : Julie Carr
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820326849
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Mead written by Julie Carr and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central subject in Julie Carr's debut poem collection is marriage. Intimacy is examined, not only in terms of the erotic, the quotidian, and the contractual, but also in terms of the intertextual: the pact between reader and writer and the blending of texts that results. Motherhood also figures as a kind of marriage-a bond that includes affective, legal, and sensual elements. Using a variety of poetic structures--prose poems, stanzaic forms, concrete poems, fractured lyrics, direct dialogue, and discursive modes--Carr simultaneously embraces and breaks from the expected and the known, revealing the precarious balance between our desire for narrative, sequence, drama, and resolution, on the one hand, and rupture, fragment, and fracturing, on the other.

Panic

Author : Brooke Warner
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781556433962
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Panic written by Brooke Warner and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2002-08-14 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Panic is not a single state with only one set of feelings and predictable emotions. The essays and articles in this book span various disciplines—psychology, medicine, literature, and history—tied together by the common thread of panic, including how it is manifested in culture, tradition, and experience, and its differing treatments. Included are original as well as previously published writings by Peter A. Levine, Paul Pitchford, and Kim Newman.

Mrs. Gandhi's Guest

Author : David Baily Harned
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625647336
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Gandhi's Guest written by David Baily Harned and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Contributor(s): David Baily Harned (PhD, Yale Graduate School) is a retired professor of religious studies who remains active as a classroom teacher and a scholarly writer. He taught at Williams, Smith, and Allegheny Colleges, and served a five-year term as president at Allegheny College. His longer terms of service were seven years as the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Louisiana State University and ten years as the founding chairman of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. Elaine H. Harned is David's wife.

NO GOING BACK

Author : Anna Patrick
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1838590552
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book NO GOING BACK written by Anna Patrick and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poland 1944 Arrested by the Gestapo for carrying a gun, Marta has to think fast. With a mixture of courage, cunning and sheer good luck, she faces down her interrogators and protects her beloved fiancé. But at what cost to her? Nothing in her privileged background prepares her for the horrors of Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany. Close friendships and an unshakeable belief help her survive. As the war ends, she has to pull together the fragments of her shattered life. What does the future hold and will she ever see her fiancé again? Blending imagination with historical fact and the memories of an exceptional woman, No Going Back is a tale as gripping as it is moving and offers a unique insight into one of modern Europe’s darkest periods.

Visiting Wallace

Author : Dennis Barone
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587298112
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Visiting Wallace written by Dennis Barone and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seventy-six poems inspired by poet Wallace Steven's life and work, written by a variety of modern poets.

Of Thee I Sing

Author : Timothy Liu
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820326009
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Of Thee I Sing written by Timothy Liu and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his fifth book of poems, Timothy Liu addresses a tripartite “Thee”: the Divine, the Beloved, and the State. A precarious dance between the spiritual and the material ensues, the lyric poem confronting a consumer culture overrun by rampant lust and greed yet finding itself unable to wholly stand outside of what it critiques. Any consolation found herein is short-lived. Even so, by extending the traditions of lyric poetry forward, these utterances seek to enlarge the conversation between art and life, anticipating whatever commerce the future might yet hold.

What Animal

Author : Oni Buchanan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820325678
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book What Animal written by Oni Buchanan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world in What Animal is filled with uncontainable data, a rush of experiences tumbling one after the other, experiences whose logic is only that they have happened, or cannot be determined as having happened or not. Images--often spliced together in rapid succession, each with a distinct complex of emotional and associative content--operate in "rhymes" of shape, sound, capacity for motion, texture, and number. Image patterns, sound patterns, syntactical shifts, and physical spaces recur in different forms and combinations, as if, could we only comprehend, the patterns would add up to something of galactic, even infinite, dimension.

Rotterdam

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Rotterdam written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial

Author : Deborah Cohen
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0525511210
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Last Call at the Hotel Imperial written by Deborah Cohen and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE • A prize-winning historian’s “effervescent” (The New Yorker) account of a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism “High-speed, four-lane storytelling . . . Cohen’s all-action narrative bursts with colour and incident.”—Financial Times NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE PROSE AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, BookPage, Booklist They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, sometimes perched atop mules on wooden saddles, sometimes gliding through countries in the splendor of a first-class sleeper car. While empires collapsed and fledgling democracies faltered, they chased deposed empresses, international financiers, and Balkan gun-runners, and then knocked back doubles late into the night. Last Call at the Hotel Imperial is the extraordinary story of John Gunther, H. R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson. In those tumultuous years, they landed exclusive interviews with Hitler and Mussolini, Nehru and Gandhi, and helped shape what Americans knew about the world. Alongside these backstage glimpses into the halls of power, they left another equally incredible set of records. Living in the heady afterglow of Freud, they subjected themselves to frank, critical scrutiny and argued about love, war, sex, death, and everything in between. Plunged into successive global crises, Gunther, Knickerbocker, Sheean, and Thompson could no longer separate themselves from the turmoil that surrounded them. To tell that story, they broke long-standing taboos. From their circle came not just the first modern account of illness in Gunther’s Death Be Not Proud—a memoir about his son’s death from cancer—but the first no-holds-barred chronicle of a marriage: Sheean’s Dorothy and Red, about Thompson’s fractious relationship with Sinclair Lewis. Told with the immediacy of a conversation overheard, this revelatory book captures how the global upheavals of the twentieth century felt up close.

Depth Theology

Author : Peter O'Leary
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820328065
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Depth Theology written by Peter O'Leary and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depth Theology taps the religious potential of poetry to access both the interior and the exterior worlds. Inspired by depth psychology, the field of psychology devoted to the unconscious, Peter O'Leary's poems work to discover the religious knowledge of the unconscious mind. While seeking a revelatory poetry, O'Leary engages the inconclusive quality of the revealed, observing that "There's / a liquidy trickiness to life, an entropy / of spillage." The religious imagination that evolves in this series of thirty-four poems is unclouded by dogma and richly colored by erudition, while it tests the limits of human language and experience in an effort to understand our inwardness. Overflowing with images of birds and other objects of day-to-day experience, interwoven with the mythic, allegorical, and biblical, Depth Theology charts a path to understanding our innermost worlds. From "Lux Contemplatio": "there is no place anymore for us to migrate. The need / yet remains. / Antarctica means now an interior domain. Curiosity / about our inner life increases. A nomad's desert God is an inward / generator. Our outward movement yields our soul's circumincession / its insitting / in rotation with the divine abeyance"

Exit Black

Author : Joe Pitkin
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Exit Black written by Joe Pitkin and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Hard meets The Martian—with a dash of Knives Out—in this action-packed sci-fi thriller. Imperium is the most expensive structure ever created. Once an orbiting laboratory, it is now a space hotel for the fantastically wealthy. But as the station preps for its first group of space tourists, Dr. Chloe Bonilla, Imperium’s resident biophysicist, finds herself questioning whether babysitting a passel of space glampers is worth the distraction from her research. A private rocket delivers a rogues’ gallery of the world’s elite to Imperium: eccentric billionaires, callow tech bros, a sponsored Instagram influencer, and a seemingly saintly philanthropist. However, posing among the staff are members of a global terrorist group who call themselves the Reckoners, hell bent on upending the economic inequality of twenty-first-century Earth—and they have a bone to pick with these scions of the 1 percent. As the Reckoners take control of Imperium and demand an $8 billion ransom from their wealthy hostages, it’s up to Dr. Bonilla to save them, and fast. Or the captives will be forced to exit the station—and there’s only one way out.

The Book of Motion

Author : Tung-Hui Hu
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820325682
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Motion written by Tung-Hui Hu and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This debut collection explores memory, cities, motion. Tung-Hui Hu's tone has some of the swampy wit that recalls Calvino or Michaux: A man swaps bodies with his lover; a mapmaker holds captive a city, which needs his crystal telescope to navigate through streets "unreadable as palm lines"; a car pushed off a cliff in a fit of anger becomes home for a school of fish. Anchored by the sequence "Elegies for self," Hu's poetry brings a quiet sophistication to syntax, diction, and form.