Nonfiction. In THE RAINBOW WORLD, Burton Watson, internationally respected translator and writer, charms us with his experiences as a student of East Asian culture and longtime resident of Japan. These essays, written over many years, reflect the changes that have taken place in postwar Japan and suggest both the pleasures and trials experienced by foreigners living there. Taken as a whole, this collection is a candid and warm picture of the Japanese people, presented with humor and lightness of touch.

The Rainbow World: Japan in Essays and Translations

Literature & Fiction

Watson, Burton

History & Criticism

Broken Moon Press

River-Root: A Syzygy (Revised Edition)

Everson, William

Poetry

Poetry. " IMAGINARY ANCESTORS is a search for self-definition that leads Madeline DeFrees to that fertile ground where imagination unearths the past in order to invent the present. She unlocks her complex family past, which becomes a version of American history; struggles with the crisis of religious faith in our time; and affirms a moving, personal vision of America's feminine poetic tradition. Her language is chiseled and penetrating, full of those marvelous, idiosyncratic perceptions that recall Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore. Those who know When Sky Lets Go and Magpie on the Gallows will find IMAGINARY ANCESTORS a wonderful furthering of Madeline DeFree's art. Those who haven't discovered Madeline DeFree's poems will find this book a revelation" -Peter Balakian.

Imaginary Ancestors

DeFrees, Madeline

Review "Peter Levitt's exceptional authority as a poet has been earned by a persisiting care and endurance. He comes from the familiar chaos of gang fights and urban despair to a center he has had many times to lose in order to find again, the "Light" of the moving A Book Of Light, the closing sequence of this masterful collection. When poems can speak as variously and as clearly as these, when one has so cared and learned to value the life given, then the music itself sounds the honor of our common dance. Bright Root, Dark Root is the music of survival." --Robert Creeley "In the presence of a poet who has been given and who has accepted the sacred duty of bringing the poem into the world, there is the bare, but sufficient, intimation of the very beginning, of the marvel and heartbreak of creation. Such a poet is Peter Levitt and such a book is Bright Root, Dark Root. There is great beauty in this book. Beauty is at the heart of it, at that place, Tepheret, where the Kabbalists tell us spirit and form meet, where men and women are holy together and where, as these poems indicate, light becomes body and body becomes light. All the mystical texts, which Levitt knows so well--Hebrew, Greek, Buddhist-- speak of the moment and injunction: Let there be light. And here there is that light. Peter Levitt understands the necessity and risk of carrying it and offers it to us, with tenderness, for these dark times." --Deena Metzger -- About the AuthorAll Things Rise, Transparent Be Prepared The Beautiful Particulars Birth At Winter River The Boat Born To Die The Bow Budding The Cry The Daughters Talk To Me Dying Season Even So The Faithless Caballo Green Sonnet A Hasid Poet Heron Homage: Leda As Virgin How Big If The Population Decides To Die If We Must Speak Then In The Chinese Post Card It Is A Native Soil Japanese Maple Maybe Two The Measure Mother You Will Die The Name Of Birds Of Brilliant Kind The Fierce Outstetched The Branches Under Para Nicaragua The Path Is Master The Potter Red Camelia Reply To Lethe The Return Reversal Is The Movement Of The Tao Sister Lotus, Sister Flame Some Times This Shore The Tryst The Turn Undiminished The Wedding The Wedding When The World Of Its Own -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Bright Root, Dark Root

Levitt, Peter

Nonfiction: Psychology / Gay Studies "THE ANDROGYNE JOURNAL is probably the most important and certainly the most tenderly intimate record of transformation we are likely ever to encounter. In a highly charged and richly readable prose, this great poet tells of a momentous summer when Hermes and Aphrodite reenacted their mythic courtship and consummation in the sensory theater of his own very real body. As readers, we witness the drama with a growing awareness that this alchemist of ecstasy is passing along to us a vital key to our own unfolding" -- James Leo Herlihy, author of Midnight Cowboy.

The Androgyne Journal

BROUGHTON, James

Biographies & Memoirs

Poetry. "Rhythmically I have tried to capture the tempo of my time, its ecstasy, its hardness, its lyricism, its great variety. The songs are musical, and I took a seat with the rhythm, its fluctuations, and the way in which they make music, which reaches in each poem its own order: repetitions, choruses, instrumental changes, the deposition of the phrases.Each poem, however, must produce its own music, because each poem must be free in itself. I tried to express through rhythm and language, in the flow of images, the freedom, at last, of the poetic voice. I write these poems all the time. At home, in the car, backstage, at cafes.I am always writing this single poem. Since I was 15. And I intend to continue writing them for the rest of my life" -Julian Beck, 1925-1985.

Living in Volkswagen Buses

BECK, Julian

a new collection of stories by this Chicano writer

Flowers for the Broken

Sáenz, Benjamin Alire

United States

Fiction. When Harriette inherits a mountain set among the Cherokee of North Carolina, she also inherits the mystery of her father's death. "There is little to recommend in Cady's slow yarn about a mountain defiled and the revenge it extracts on its owner"--Publishers Weekly.

Inagehi

Cady, Jack

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