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Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything...

Seven plays by the genius of French theater. Including The Ridiculous Precieuses, The School for Husbands, The School for Wives, Don Juan, The Versailles Impromptu, and The Critique of the School for Wives, this collection showcases the talent of perhaps the greatest and best-loved French playwright. Translated...

It is only recently that historians of the theatre in French Canada have turned their attention to playwrights active before the twentieth century. Their practice had been to trace the roots of theatre to mid-1930s, to the appearance of Father Emile Legault and his troupe, the Compagnons de Saint-Laurent,...

Greil Marcus once said to an interviewer, "There is an infinite amount of meaning about anything, and I free associate." For more than four decades, Marcus has explored the connections among figures, sounds, and events in culture, relating unrelated points of departure, mapping alternate histories...

Japanese Theatre presents a full historical account for Westerners of the theater arts that have flourished for centuries in Japan. Kabuki, arising in the late seventeenth century, is the theater of the commoner. The successive syllables of Kabuki mean "song – dance – skill." The...

BJ Ward, an award-winning poet whose poetry and essays have been featured on National Public Radio and in publications such as The Sun Magazine, TriQuarterly, The Literary Review, and the New York Times, has brought together in one volume the fruits of his labor spanning over twenty years. Winner...

In this luminous new collection of poems, Franz Wright expands on the spiritual joy he found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Walking to Martha’s Vineyard. Wright, whom we know as a poet of exquisite miniatures, opens God’s Silence with “East Boston, 1996,” a powerful long poem that looks back...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Il faut se figurer, d’un siècle l’autre, ce que représenta la parution de L’Ombilic des limbes dans la prestigieuse collection Une œuvre, un portrait des éditions de La Nouvelle Revue française, accompagnée d’un...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Bien qu’il soit difficile de cerner avec exactitude la notion de symbolisme, on peut essayer d’en dégager quelques traits : la fuite hors de ce monde par le repli sur soi, l’esthétisme de l’étrange et le culte des...

Extrait : "C'est dans un bois sinistre et formidable, au nord De la Gaule. Roisi par un suprême effort, Les chênes monstrueux supportent avec rage Les grands nuages noirs d'où va tomber l'orage ; Le matin frissonnant s'éveille, et la clarté De l'aube mord déjà le ciel ensanglanté."À PROPOS DES...

Anthony Hecht, now in his eightieth year, has earned a place alongside such poets as W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and Elizabeth Bishop. Here under one cover are his three most recent collections–The Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs, and The Darkness and the Light. The perfect companion to his...

Presented at the PEN World Voices Festival as a “post-national” writer, Eliot Weinberger is “a sparkling essayist” (Confrontation), and his writings “a boundary-crossing, shape-shifting cabinet of curiosities” (The Bloomsbury Review). Many of the twenty-eight essays in Oranges &...

Ci sono momenti e persone che lasciano tracce indelebili nell'animo e rimangono vivi nel ricordo, con un impeto pari e a volte maggiore di quello vissuto. L'atmosfera presente in questa silloge ha l'intento di dare l'intensità alla parola e ai sentimenti d'amore.