“Bowles is at his best when writing about places. He can evoke a place with a few sure strokes.”
ーNew York Times
“His work is art. At his best, Bowles has no peer.”
ーTime
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"Jane Hirshfield is one of our finest, most memorable contemporary poets." ーDavid Baker, The American Poet
"Hirshfield's poems . . . send ripples across the reflecting pool of our collective consci……続きを見る
著者:Denis Johnson
出版社: HarperCollins
発売日: 2009年03月03日
“Johnson writes with a fervor that can only be described as religious. Seek is scary and beautiful and ecstatic and uncontrolled…he elevates the mundane to the sublime; he boils things down to their……続きを見る
One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe life as he lives it……続きを見る
"Clever. . . magical. . . beautifully crafted. Kingsolver spins you around the philosophic world a dozen times." ー Milwaukee Sentinel
"Kingsolver's essays should be savored like quiet afternoons wi……続きを見る
Are you tired of bland, overly earnest reading guides that discuss the same old books? Read This Next by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittlemark is the answer. A smart, irreverent, honest, and truly hil……続きを見る
"This dazzling, intensely personal compendium is a passionate feast." ーJane Hirshfield
Robert Bly had always been amazingly prescient in his choice of poets to translate. The poetry he chose suppli……続きを見る
Readers have found Robert Bly’s ghazals startling and new; they merge wildness with a beautiful formality. The ghazal form is well-known in Islamic culture, but only now finding its way into the lit……続きを見る
"Bly's imaginative prose poems radiate witty delight." ー Library Journal
A brilliant collection spanning half a century, from one of America's most powerful poets.
Robert Bly had many roles in his ……続きを見る
"A beautifully written, hallucinatorily evocative memoir of growing up gay in baby-boom America." ー Newsweek
In his powerful autobiography, Firebird, Mark Doty tells the story of a ten-year-old in ……続きを見る
“One of the finest and most original writers…and one of the greatest Polish writers of [the 20th] century. [Herbert] is a figure comparable to, say, T. S. Eliot or W. H. Auden.”
ーEdward Hirsch, The……続きを見る
"A collection of meditations like polished stones ー painstakingly worded, tough-minded, yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural world." ー……続きを見る
著者:Denis Johnson
出版社: HarperCollins
発売日: 2009年03月03日
"Perfection is not the basis of what I'm talking about," says a member of the Cassandra family, which forms the center of Denis Johnson's plays, Hellhound on My Trail and Shoppers Carried by Escalat……続きを見る
“Bache writes straight from the heart, peopling her pages with characters you will never forget.”
ーLee Smith, author of Fair and Tender Ladies
“Ellyn Bache draws her characters from the inside.”
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