Poems and epigrams. Caustic love lyrics in the tradition of Catullus.

Long after Hannibal had passed with elephants: Poems and epigrams

Jones, Alan

Edgewise Press

slight signs of wear on cover - otherwise in nice condition

Recent essays, 1990-1996 (EP)

Halley, Peter

With color reproductions of five paintings by Beauford Delaney, this series of sustained lyrical poems, each seven lines long in a 1-2-1-2-1 haiku-like disciplined format, focuses on color as simultaneously a race and aesthetic issue.

Tributary: Poems (EP)

Briet, Philippe

Jonathan Lasker's Complete Essays 1984-1998 provides us with an important historical document about the development of American abstract painting over the course of nearly two decades. Besides analyzing the work of Piet Mondrian, Willem de Kooning, and Eugne Leroy, and the critic Clement Greenberg, the artist discusses abstract painting's relationship to violence, sensation, the media, the physical and cognitive world of images, experience, reality, intentionality, beauty, consciousness and mortality in the contemporary world. In his thinking and work, as evidenced in these essays, Lasker explores "the unhappy marriages of the biomorphic and the decorative, the mark of the loaded brush and the geometric, the psyche and popular culture" -- and the intensely complex relation between substance and time, materiality and subjectivity, narrative and the means of abstraction in the context of meaning, the human condition, and the conditions of nature. Lasker writes: "I have underlined my intellectual personality in these essays not to show that I am a philosopher but rather that I seek only the truth of my desires, even if they go beyond provable reason."

Complete Essays 1984-1998

Lasker, Jonathan

B.H. Friedman, the original biographer of Jackson Pollock (Jackson Pollock:  Energy Made Visible), gathers together in his latest book of fiction, Swimming Laps, twelve stories and meditations that cover a thirty-eight year period, from 1961 to 1999.  Pre-eminently social and yet Minimalist, poignant and yet severe in his characterizations, Friedman confronts unflinchingly our destiny as human beings.  His wry insights force us to face the singular but inescapable conditions of what it means to be always simultaneously at the end and at the beginning of our lives.

Swimming Laps: Stories and Meditations

FRIEDMAN, B.H.

How does the young artist orient himself in relation to the whole cultural sprawl of his time? As his work gets included in a category of style, can he see what values that style expresses relative to the 360 degree spectrum of other points of view on life? If he focuses in on the used landscape, right down to some seemingly negligible weed or bit of trash, what thoughts does he have concerning the images we have effected to the ecology of the entire planet? Here are some of the issues Downes addresses in these three essays that, dating from three different decades, reflect his changing preoccupations.

In Relation to the Whole / Three Essays From Three Decades (EP 10)

RACKSTRAW DOWNES

Arts & Photography

First edition paperback, January 2010, 136 pp., sewn, bound and printed in Italy, with a two-color cover, and a black and white photograph of the author on the frontispiece.

The Carpet Paradigm

Joseph Masheck

Victim of Improvement: Telegrams, Stories, Letters, Monologues, Interviews, 1985-2006

Donald Baechler

The exotic, bustling train station of Napoli Centrale offers a springboard into the city of Naples. Fishmongers, black marketers, and clergymen mingle in open-air markets of lower Naples beneath fluttering laundry. Expeditions to the island of Capri and Matera, a stone-hewn city in mysterious Basilicata region, follow. Seeing Naples revisits another astute observer of the city, Vittorio De Sica, who filmed the city's buildings and alleyways in the early 1950's in his classic movie, The Gold of Naples. It deals with topics of personal power and obligation, self-presentation, gambling, sex, money, love and death, often as played out in public settings, and is pictured in beautiful stills from the movie and the stories retold briefly by the author. Central to the book are Rothbart's conversations and interviews with remarkable Neapolitans and the photographs that accompany them. . The book also interprets dramatic historic narratives linked to the sights of the city, such as the life of Masaniello, a seventeenth century fishmonger, who led a people's rebellion against the Spanish, developed a taste for power and privilege himself, and was assassinated

Seeing Naples: Reports from the Shadow of Vesuvius

Travel

Daniel Rothbart

Europe

New Complete Essays, 1984-2019

Jonathan Lasker

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