Only By Failure is a biography of Terence Gray. He was an Irish aristocrat who in the Twenties became an Egyptologist and historian, writing books of short plays based on Ancient Egypt and the early history of Ireland. He co-founded the Cambridge Festival Theatre in 1926 and followed the inspiration of Gordon Craig. Actors there included Maurice Evans, Robert Donat, Flora Robson and Jessica Tandy. Ninette de Valois (Gray's cousin) began her career there. In 1933 Gray's interest in the theatre ended and he moved to France, to become Wei Wu Wei and he wrote eight books in his own style of Zen Buddhism.

Only By Failure: The Many Faces of the Impossible Life of Terence Gray

Biographies & Memoirs

Cornwell, Paul

Arts & Literature

Salt Pub

This collection engages with traditional forms and carries out various kinds of experimentation centering on the physical meaning of life. The poems confront issues of cognitive, spiritual and erotic experience, and address longing and desire in the material world. The Creature yearns for new language in which we can all more truly live.

Creature

Literature & Fiction

Harp, Jerry

Poetry

False Memory is a major political poem, written through the events of the 1990s, representing the damaged world that we know in all its violence and inequality. Focusing on public language rather than private experience, False Memory is an hilarious collage of all the specialized jargons and advertised slogans that situate us in the postmodern world.

False Memory

Lopez, Antony

This book contains poems from Reiss's first four books, plus rollicking new work from his fifth volume, Slap Me Five, and his sixth collection of laugh-outloud rhyming satirical war verse, A Child's Garden of Evil. As one reviewer said, this book "will command a wide audience."

Riff on Six: New and Selected Poems

REISS, James

History & Criticism

Evolution of the Bridge collects prose poems from Maxine Chernoff's previous volumes written over the past thirty years. It features such classics as "The Last Aurochs," "A Vegetable Emergency," "Utopia TV Store," "New Faces of 1952" and provides the reader with ample evidence that Maxine Chernoff continues to be one of the most significant practitioners of the prose poem in America today.

Evolution of the Bridge: Selected Prose Poems

Chernoff, Maxine

John Matthias'sNew Selected Poems brings together both short and longer poems from eight previous books. It ranges from early lyrics written in America during the 1960s to meditative and epistolary poems deriving from his years spent in England during the 70s and 80s, formal experiments engaging issues of poetics, and sequences likeNorthern Summer,Facts from an Apocryphal Midwest,A Compostela Diptych, andCuttings. Robert Duncan called his early poetry "the work of a Goliard-one of those wandering souls out of a Dark Age in our own time," and Guy Davenport has said that his recent work makes him "one of the leading poets in the USA." The present volume, together withWorking Progress, Working Title, published by Salt in 2002, makes almost all of his major work available in Britain for the first time in many years.

New Selected Poems

Matthias, John

Only By Failure

How does a damaged child grow up to be a loving, strong adult woman? These poems explore survivorship, tracing an American Indian woman's life from conception to mid-life. Along the way such themes as domestic violence, abandonment, racism, rape, addiction, marriage, motherhood, and falling in love with another Indian woman are addressed in lyric poetry. These poems teach us how to survive destruction without becoming destroyers ourselves; how the elements of earth, love, community and work nurture creation and manifest hope.

The Zen of La Llorona

Miranda, Deborah A.

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

Geoffrey O'Brien

A groundbreaking study of the most challenging, abstract, playful, difficult and moving postmodern poetry from USA and UK; these essays are carefully developed readings that focus on the complexities of particular poems and make bold cultural connections. New Work on John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian, Ted Berrigan, David Antin, Denise Riley, Tom Raworth, J.H. Prynne, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and many others.

Meaning Performance: Essays on Poetry (Reconstruction S.)

Lopez, Tony

British & Irish

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