Dreamtime

History

Geoffrey O'Brien

Americas

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

<p>Here's the lowdown on the 25¢ paperbacks, the books that laid bare the sordid underside of American life - and brought to millions the best in hardboiled fiction. This is the book that tells it all: From the California of Dashiell Hammett to the Florida of John D. MacDonald... From wartime morale-building to lurid postwar exploitation... From the roadside romance of The Postman Always Rings Twice to the big-city paranoia of Kiss Me, Deadly.... It's all here - the tough guys and the brassy dolls, the hoods and the lost waifs of America's subterranean legends, as transcribed by the masters of hardboiled prose and packaged by the paperback industry of the Forties and Fifties - all illustrated by the extraordinary images of America's most unsung artists.</p>

Hardboiled America

Van Nostrand Reinhold (Trade)

In Bardic Deadlines, writer and editor Geoffrey O'Brien collects twenty of his essays on poetry that originally appeared in the Voice Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books. O'Brien surveys an array of some of the most striking and innovative poets to emerge in recent decades, including Susan Howe, August Kleinzahler, Clark Coolidge, Nathaniel Mackey, Gustaf Sobin, and Michael O'Brien. Discussions of contemporary work are juxtaposed with considerations of other traditions going as far back as the second-century Chinese anthology The Songs of the South and the Sanskrit master Kalidasa, traditions considered highly relevant to current practice. There are engaging, in-depth portraits of the work of poets John Clare, Hugh MacDiarmid, Emily Bronte, Kenji Miyazawa, and Frank O'Hara, among others. There is also an exploration of the poetics of Walt Whitman that highlights themes addressed throughout the collection: the physicality and musicality of language, the spatial dimension of poetry, the intimate bond between poet and reader, and the secret and often obsessive strategies by which the poet hides secrets in plain sight and enlists the reader in the making of the poem. Each essay focuses on poetry as experience that impinges on basic questions of identity and being. Geoffrey O'Brien is the author of a number of nonfiction books and poetry collections, including Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir, Floating City: Selected Poems 1978-1995, and The Hudson Mystery, and a fictional work, The Times Square Story. He is editor-in-chief of the Library of America.

Bardic Deadlines: Reviewing Poetry, 1984-95 (Poets On Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University of Michigan Press

<p>The sensibility of the sixties--the drug culture, mysticism, rock music, and revolutionary tactics employed in the name of peace and equality--is captured in this insightful blend of autobiography, prose montage, and cultural criticism</p>

Dream Time: Chapters From the Sixties

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

VIKING

Street of No Return

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

David Goodis

Mystery

Creative Arts Book Company

Red Sky Café contains postcards and poem-cards, a fistful of sonnets, a cento and a lipogram, a Greek myth retold by its regretful hero, a dance number from a lost Betty Grable musical. It mixes songs, narrative episodes, previews of coming attractions, and television programs glimpsed through the window of a neighbor's apartment.

Red Sky Cafe

Salt Pub

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