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Imperial Orgy: An Account of the Tsars from the First to the Last
Edgar Saltus
Ams Pr Inc, 1974
was this written in English?
I had assumed it was an amazingly bad translation that made the author sound schizo... maybe the author is schizo!? the language is a jumble of sensational slander against the czars - very entertaining. like 12 caesars and the secret history (less substancial and sensational/creative but ...
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The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto
Kenji Nakagami
Stone Bridge Press, 1999
The harder one tries to escape, the tighter the bonds become
In "The Cape" (5 stars), Nakagami excels at drawing the reader into what quickly becomes a nightmarish reality and oppressive existence for the protagonist Akiyuki, a young man who only wants to live a simple life, and yet is unable to escape the chains and fetters of his bloodline. He is defined, ...
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The Crackling Sun
Louis Bourne Vicente Aleixandre
Socieded Generl Espanola De, 1981
The Crackling Sun includes 100 poems translated from poems in all 13 books of the 1977 Spanish Nobel Prize winner Vicente Aleixandre whom the translator knew personally and consulted on several occasions. It also has a lengthy introduction of some 75 pages explaining the evolution of his several styles, particularly the surrealist mode. The book is presently in 139 libraries in the U.S.
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Another Shore (Fiction Series)
George Hitchcock
Story Line Press, 1988
Another (a first) Endorsement
This is the review of a partisan: George Hitchcock was my de facto faculty advisor (the actual faculty advisor, a perfectly nice man, was rather disengaged from my standpoint) during my undergraduate years in the early 1970s. I nevertheless post my enthusiastic endorsement of "Another Shore," a ...
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Amour Amour (Green Integer Books:)
Andreas Embiricos
Green Integer, 2002
Beautiful Book
Although a prose, it reads like poetry. The book is simply beautiful. A must for those who love literature.
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The Republic of Wine : A Novel
Mo Yan
Arcade Publishing, 2001
This Guy is Amazing
+ A deliciously sarcastic satire of China's corruption
This has been an excellent book. He is by far the best writer in China today and I hope he receives his deserved acclaim from the international literary world one day. Mo Yan is a great and creative talent...this is an absolutely bizarre book where he displays his profound imagination. He ...
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The Embroidered Shoes: Stories
Tsan-Hsueh, Can Xue
Henry Holt & Co, 1997
5 stars
The comparisons to Kafka and Borges are right on - Can Xue's stories are indeed bizarre, often meriting a second reading, but they are enthralling. This book is highly recommended, as are her other two.
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The Past and the Punishments: Eight Stories (Fiction from Modern China)
Yu Hua
University of Hawaii Press, 1996
That the concept and history of punishment should figure heavily in the artistic sensibility of a young Chinese writer who grew up during the Cultural Revolution is hardly surprising. The main characters in both the title story and in "1986" are scholars specializing in the history of punishment through the ages, and an ancient fortune teller in another story is said to have achieved ...
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Journey toward the Cradle of Mankind (Marlboro Travel)
Guido Gozzano
Marlboro Press, 1996
Guido Gozzano (1883-1916), a distinguished Italian poet of the early twentieth century, embarked for India in February 1912, ostensibly to treat the tuberculosis he would die from a few years later. For factual details Gozzano relied on half a dozen sources, notably Pierre Loti and Paola Mentegazza. But what counts in his book is what comes to us straight from him: a tale of enchantment.
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Amorgos (Greek Edition)
Nikos Gatsos
Anvil Press Poetry, 2004
Wonderful Verse
I was delighted to come across Gatsos book while perusing the bookshelves of the University of Arizona. But why are the best poets like Gatsos rarely found on the bookshelves of stores? Who knows, and I suppose it will always be that way. Notwithstanding, Gatsos proved a real treasure of ...
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Perched on Nothing's Branch
Attila Jozsef
White Pine Press, 1999
Deeply Existential, Soulful, Heartfelt Poems
+ Interesting Poetry
+ Poetry at its best
+ Poetry at its best
+ Alternating Cries of Hope and Despair
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Chinas Avant-Garde Fiction: An Anthology
Duke University Press, 1998
Filled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde represents a genre of storytelling unlike any other. Whether engaging the worn spectacle of history, expressing seemingly unmotivated violence, or reinventing outlandish Tibetan myths, these stories are defined by their devotion to theatrics and their ...
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Ghosts
John Banville
Vintage, 1994
Tempestuous
+ Spirited
+ "Evidently there is allegory here"...
+ A modern masterpiece...
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Best of The Prose Poem: An International Journal
White Pine Press, 2000
An odd aviary of American literature
This anthology culled from the excellent journal devoted solely to the prose poem is a treasure. The prose poem is indeed its own bird, an evolutionary strain SIMILAR to poetry, and SIMILAR to prose, but not exactly like either. The prose poem, when done well (as most of those exhibited in this ...
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Nonpoems
Florentin Smarandache
Erhus University Press, 1991
CRITICISM OF FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE'S WORK: NONPOEMS
+ The most avant-gardist book
While dealing with the comment that shows Florentin Sma randache's works as a puzzle, the whole masterpiece means somehow a kind of blank to fill in what is poetry and what it does not mean. To replying such a questions, we quite obliged to reach the real meaning of this art work called poetry. ...
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