The two essays in this book, first published in 1989, were delivered as two of the 1987 Carpenter Lectures at the University of Chicago. Wittgenstein and Emerson are major influences on and subjects of Cavell's thought, and here he thinks and rethinks of these two intellectual forebears. As the title shows, he finds an important crux for contemplation in Emerson's idea of America.

This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures After Emerson after Wittgenstein (The 1987 Frederick Ives Carpenter Lectures)

Politics & Social Sciences

Cavell, Stanley

Philosophy

Living Batch Press

"Our time becomes a complex fragmentation of systems, a fading recollection of the bits and pieces we had thought to constitute our histories and the hopeful proposals of our human significance we had attempted. This consummate masterwork is an acknowledgment and use of all these testifying echoes, locked in turn with the things our adamantly common world cannot find place to put down, Gene Frumkin's interweaving narratives are reflective, singular yet engaged, casually simple, but also intensely thoughtful of that spinning, refractive world he would so tell. If there can now be one story which speaks of all, one person compounded of our divisive genders and agencies, that "everyone" is here. The voices of these extraordinary poems make a place intensively present, irresolvable and yet so endlessly insistent. As he writes in the preface, '. . . if the world is the case, as it no doubt is, then language must serve as its imagination. . . .Language can be a floor and a ceiling, even while the walls tremble." The genius of this work is Frumkin's pledge to that transforming power."--Robert Creeley

Comma in the Ear

Literature & Fiction

Frumkin, Gene

United States

Set in New Mexico, this surprising book is a classic of its genre and of its region.
“Unputdownable.”—Stephen King 
“The best vampire novel I have ever read.”—Peter S. Beagle 
“A superb work of the imagination, a rich, deep and intelligent study of a being who looks quite human but is nothing of the sort.”—Richard Bradford

The Vampire Tapestry: A Novel

Charnas, Suzy McKee

First published in 1968, this classic book foreshadowed the regional haute cuisine that became popular twenty years later.

The Aficionado's Southwestern Cooking: New and Old

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

JOHNSON, RONALD

Regional & International

This long, complex poem, modeled on the Watts Tower, a Los Angeles folk architecture masterpiece, is the first Living Batch Press drive, he said book—a series honoring Robert Creeley's "I Know a Man." The title alludes to Noah's ark; to the rainbow (arc-en-ciel in French); and by extension to Arkansas and hence to Kansas, where the poet was born.
"A work of singular beauty and resolution. It takes its legitimate place with the great works of the century of like kind, Ezra Pound's Cantos, Louis Zukofsky's A, Charles Olson's Maximus, and Robert Duncan's Passages. Its own specific character is, however, brilliantly singular."—Robert Creeley
"A late harvest of seeds sown by Blake, L. Frank Baum, the Bible, and Zukofsky, all in a new architecture, a wholly new voice, and even a new chemistry of words and images. It is for those who can see visions, and for those who know how to look well and be taught that they can see them."—Guy Davenport

Poetry

An incomparable poet of the American West, Stephens evokes a primordial place, one met with only in the great poems of Native Americans and the ancient Chinese and Japanese. His rhythm and words are spare, evoking the clear, dry-air vision of the ordinary. Stephens writes about the Colorado plains of his youth and the landscape of Southern California, imagery of the subtropical and the desert--oriental, mundane, and mediterranean. Going beyond the Homeric catalog, beyond a Whitmanesque list, "Names of Trout Flies" meditates on the deep interior of the West.

Away from the Road

Stephens, Alan

Music. Cultural Writing. Perhaps no living American poet has taken Kerouac, jazz and bop prosody into as many original directions as Clark Coolidge. In his inimitable prose, Coolidge recalls and explores the role Kerouac (Part 1) and jazz (Part 2) have played in his artistic development. A book of tremendous energy from the very first sentence: ON THE ROAD was first handed to me by somebody in a dorm at Brown, my sophomore year, 1957-58. 'Here, read this.' CRYSTAL TEXT, BOOK OF DURING, MESH and AT EGYPT are among the titles by Clark Coolidge available from SPD.

Now It's Jazz: Writings on Kerouac & the Sounds

COOLIDGE, Clark

Poetry. Geoffrey Young publishes The Figures, one of America's best small presses. CERULEAN EMBANKMENTS extends the masterful earlier poetry in his first major collection, SUBJECT TO FITS. In addition to writing poetry and publishing books, Young runs the Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, Mass. Many of his incidental publications have involved collaboration with artists, and this work includes original drawings by Carroll Dunham. "Young turns his engine loose every which way, introducing terrains that lovers of lyric insouciance will want to return to recurrently, landfalls of an imaginary America floating on tides of critical energy"--Bart Black the PO-8. Other Geoffrey Young titles available from SPD include THE RIOT ACT, POCKETS OF WHEAT, and FICKLE SONNETS.

Cerulean Embankments

YOUNG, Geoffrey

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