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The Ruined Elegance

Author : Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400873436
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Ruined Elegance written by Fiona Sze-Lorrain and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical collection that explores the interplay between poetry and history In her new collection, Fiona Sze-Lorrain offers a nuanced yet dynamic vision of humanity marked by perils, surprises, and the transcendence of a "ruined elegance." Through an intercultural journey that traces lives, encounters, exiles, and memories from France, America, and Asia, the poet explores a rich array of historical and literary allusions to European masters, Asian sources, and American influences. With candor and humor, each lyrical foray is sensitive to silence and experience: "I want to honor / the invisible. I'll use the fog to see white peaches." There are haunting narratives from a World War II concentration camp, the Stalinist Terror, and a persecuted Tibet during the Cultural Revolution. There are also poems that take as their point of departure writings, paintings, sketches, photographs, and music by Gu Cheng, Giorgio Caproni, Bonnard, Hiroshige, Gao Xingjian, Kertész, and Debussy, among others. Grounded in the sensual, these poems probe existential questionings through inspirations from nature and the impermanent earth. Described by the Los Angeles Review of Books as "a high lyricist who refuses to resort to mere lyricism in order to articulate her experience," Sze-Lorrain renews her faith in music and poetic language by addressing the opposing aesthetics of "ruins" and "elegance," and how the experience of both defies judgment.

The Ruined Elegance

Author : Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691167699
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Ruined Elegance written by Fiona Sze-Lorrain and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical collection that explores the interplay between poetry and history In her new collection, Fiona Sze-Lorrain offers a nuanced yet dynamic vision of humanity marked by perils, surprises, and the transcendence of a "ruined elegance." Through an intercultural journey that traces lives, encounters, exiles, and memories from France, America, and Asia, the poet explores a rich array of historical and literary allusions to European masters, Asian sources, and American influences. With candor and humor, each lyrical foray is sensitive to silence and experience: "I want to honor / the invisible. I'll use the fog to see white peaches." There are haunting narratives from a World War II concentration camp, the Stalinist Terror, and a persecuted Tibet during the Cultural Revolution. There are also poems that take as their point of departure writings, paintings, sketches, photographs, and music by Gu Cheng, Giorgio Caproni, Bonnard, Hiroshige, Gao Xingjian, Kertész, and Debussy, among others. Grounded in the sensual, these poems probe existential questionings through inspirations from nature and the impermanent earth. Described by the Los Angeles Review of Books as "a high lyricist who refuses to resort to mere lyricism in order to articulate her experience," Sze-Lorrain renews her faith in music and poetic language by addressing the opposing aesthetics of "ruins" and "elegance," and how the experience of both defies judgment.

Stem

Author : Stella Wong
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691264058
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Stem written by Stella Wong and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging collection from a rising poet that showcases her sharp, contemporary voice In Stem, Stella Wong intersperses lyric poems on a variety of subjects with dramatic monologues that imagine the perspectives of specific female composers, musicians, and visual artists, including Johanna Beyer, Mira Calix, Clara Rockmore, Maryanne Amacher, and Delia Derbyshire. In such lines as “let me tell you how I make myself appear / more likeable,” “as I grow older I like looking at chaos,” and “I want to propose a hike / and also propose mostly,” Wong’s style is confident and idiomatic, and by turns contemplative and carefree. Whether writing about family, intimate relationships, language, or women’s experience, Wong creates a world alive with observation and provocation, capturing the essence and the problems of life with others.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Author : Muriel Barbery
Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609450132
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Elegance of the Hedgehog written by Muriel Barbery and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that “explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building” (Publishers Weekly). In an elegant hôtel particulier in Paris, Renée, the concierge, is all but invisible—short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she’s everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in an upscale neighborhood. But Renée has a secret: She furtively, ferociously devours art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With biting humor, she scrutinizes the lives of the tenants—her inferiors in every way except that of material wealth. Paloma is a twelve-year-old who lives on the fifth floor. Talented and precocious, she’s come to terms with life’s seeming futility and decided to end her own on her thirteenth birthday. Until then, she will continue hiding her extraordinary intelligence behind a mask of mediocrity, acting the part of an average pre-teen high on pop culture, a good but not outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter. Paloma and Renée hide their true talents and finest qualities from a world they believe cannot or will not appreciate them. But after a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building, they will begin to recognize each other as kindred souls, in a novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us, and “teaches philosophical lessons by shrewdly exposing rich secret lives hidden beneath conventional exteriors” (Kirkus Reviews). “The narrators’ kinetic minds and engaging voices (in Alison Anderson’s fluent translation) propel us ahead.” —The New York Times Book Review “Barbery’s sly wit . . . bestows lightness on the most ponderous cogitations.” —The New Yorker

The Changing Tide

Author : K. Dowling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692773314
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book The Changing Tide written by K. Dowling and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerala the Rogue spent the idle days of her youth dreaming of a life at sea. Now, suffocated by worsening cultural persecution in the tiny port of Chancey, she feels that she is destined for something greater. In the wake of his wife's mysterious death, the king that sits the throne has strengthened his iron grip like a vise. Suddenly, Emerala's people are being subjected to swift and unwarranted executions. Emerala and her razor sharp tongue find it increasingly difficult to stay safely out of the hands of the golden soldiers that case the cobbled streets of her hometown. It is not until a mysterious pirate corners her in a shadowed alleyway that things begin to change. Leaving her armed with a stolen dagger and a dangerous choice, the stranger sends Emerala stumbling headfirst into danger. Emerala's small act of rebellion is the catalyst that awakens a long buried prophecy, setting into motion a series of events that will alter the course of history. She must quickly learn to keep her enemies close or pay the ultimate price.

Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present Time

Author : William Hazlitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present Time written by William Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elegant Epistles

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elegant Epistles written by and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How Charley Roberts Became a Man

Author : Louise Millicent Thurston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Charley Roberts Became a Man written by Louise Millicent Thurston and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Antiquities of England and Wales Displayed

Author : Henry Boswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Antiquities of England and Wales Displayed written by Henry Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theron and Aspasio ... The fifth edition

Author : James Hervey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Theron and Aspasio ... The fifth edition written by James Hervey and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theron and Aspasio; or, A series of dialogues and letters, upon the most important and interesting subjects ... The eighth edition

Author : James Hervey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Theron and Aspasio; or, A series of dialogues and letters, upon the most important and interesting subjects ... The eighth edition written by James Hervey and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire

Author : William Lefroy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire written by William Lefroy and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

“The” Athenaeum

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book “The” Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Monthly Review; Or, New Literary Journal

Author : Ralph Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Monthly Review; Or, New Literary Journal written by Ralph Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Monthly Review

Author : Ralph Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Monthly Review written by Ralph Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Arbiter of Elegance

Author : Roderick Graham
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arbiter of Elegance written by Roderick Graham and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one contributed more to the artistic eminence of 'Age of Elegance' than Robert Adam (1728-92), the pre-eminent architect of his day whose expertise and imagination extended also to interior design, furniture and garden design. His legacy has echoed through design ever since, his name synonymous with elegance, the Enlightenment, of the best features of the eighteenth century. In this fascinating biography, Roderick Graham follows Adam's life and career from schooldays in Edinburgh through study in Italy and the establishment of his architectural practice in London. It explains his passionate ambition, not only to excel as an architect, but to be accepted as a gentleman in that most snobbish period of our history.

Notes of a wanderer, in search of health, through Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, up the Danube and down the Rhine

Author : William Fullerton Cumming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Notes of a wanderer, in search of health, through Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, up the Danube and down the Rhine written by William Fullerton Cumming and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: