Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Gay & Lesbian Studies. Translated from the Spanish by D.M. Stroud and a preface and afterword by Elias Nandino. Xavier Villaurrutia (1903-1950) was the most distinguished member of Mexico's most celebrated literary group, the Contemporaneos. A closet queen who escaped his closet, instead of bursting forth with the energy of a Whitman, he flits about the corridors of his dreams like a sinister black moth. The very suppression of energy here is what creates its intensity, as in the unforgettable Decimas. This is the first complete bilingual edition of Villaurrutia's poems and will fill an important gap in the study of both gay and Mexican literature. "These beautiful translations convey perfectly the mixture of fear, hope, guilt, sensuality and elegance that are so typical of Villaurrutia"--Manuel Duran.

Homesick for Death: Dead Nocturnes: The Complete Poetry of Xavier Villaurrutia

Literature & Fiction

Villaurrutia, Xavier

Poetry

SARU Press

<p>Poetry. WHEN THE ARMS OF OUR DREAMS EMBRACE is the first major collection of Judy Katz-Levine's poems. Originally published in journals as varied as The Sun, Voices Israel and Imagine: International Chicano Poetry Journal, these poems display the full range of the depth and delicacy of this remarkable poet. "Her words move through the field of a poem's discourse like the feet of a small deer crossing a tract of brush"--Denise Levertov.</p>

When the Arms of Our Dreams Embrace

Katz-Levine, Judy

Poetry. Translated from the Japanese by William I. Elliott and Kawamura Kazuo. Revised edition of a classic that has sold over 100,000 copies in its Japanese edition. Tanikawa is the preeminent Japanese poet of his generation. These evocative hymns of childhood sung from the mouth of a child recreate first lies, first loves, first reactions to adults, playmates and secrets.

Naked

Tanikawa, Shuntaro

Caught in the Act

Makoto, Ryu

Cultural Writing. Art. Every year, millions of tourists visit Oak Creek Canyon and the picturesque town of Sedona. Few knowthat this town was first discovered not by the Hollywood directors who used it as the backdrop for countless Westerns, but by authors like Zane Grey and numberless artists, starting with the eminent French surrealist Max Ernst who went there with Peggy Guggenheim in 1940. Isabel Stroud sought out 35 artists who were active in Sedona from the 1970s up to the present and interviewed them about their life and work before her death in 2005. Reissued to commemorate the author's 100th birthday this year.

Sedona Heritage: Arizona Artists

Arts & Photography

Stroud, Isabel Mccord

History & Criticism

Fiction. Asian American Studies. Longtime Taipei resident Eric Mader-Lin recreates the streets of a vibrant, tawdry and little-known Asian city. In this picaresque novel loosely based on the Circe episode of the Odyssey, a young American on his way to teach English is fatally captivated by an older woman who takes him home to become one of her kennel of former lovers. All now dogs. When misfortune overtakes their mistress, the dogs are left to fend for themselves on the streets of a busy modern Chinese city, where they meet uncountable adventures. Future critics will consecrate Mader-Lin as the Defoe of Dogdom.

A Taipei Mutt

Mader-Lin, Eric

<p>Cultural Writing. Asian American Studies. Translation. A sequel to THE YIN-YANG JOURNAL, this book is a collection of observations in Jungian and transcendentalist terms concerning the social ego, it follows a sequence of themes suggested by the Maxims of Han Shan, the 16th century Chinese Buddhist poet known as the Cold Mountain Poet. "The authority figure has the power to enforce his decisions and to direct the actions of his underlings. Within the dynamics of Psyche such is the function that the social ego usurps, like an internal Mussolini. It assumes that 'all within' (the many attributes of Psyche) will obey il Duce. This is a very big assumption indeed."</p>

The Yang-Yin Journal: A Critique of The Social Ego

Politics & Social Sciences

Allen, R.C.

Social Sciences

Fiction. Asian American Studies. Bay area poet Leza Lowitz, famed for her recent YOGA POEMS: LINES TO UNFOLD BY and her groundbreaking anthologies of Japanese women's poetry A LONG RAINY SEASON and OTHER SIDE RIVER, now turns to fiction, in these twelve stories and a novella set in the ordinary streets of modern Tokyo. "If you've lived in Japan, this collection will awaken memories. If you haven't, you'll find yourself wanting to. Leza Lowitz' s Japan is never cliched. Her Westerners are always trying to go deeper"--Rhainnon Paine. "In these many-faceted stories, Leza Lowitz gives us a view of the world as wryly original as it is sensual and poetic. The collection is an extended meditation on the relationship between place and the interior life"--Dianne Highbridge. "Japan and its people come alive with authentic detail and a subtle, still-fresh sense of discovery"--Alison Anderson.

Green Tea To Go: Stories from Tokyo

Lowitz, Leza

Contemporary

Poetry. African American Studies. The sweetest insanity is love. This is a love story: Gloria Oden, now 80, her life, her loves, and the rediscovery of love. The youngest of 6 children in a church-centered African American family, Oden grew up in the same town as Lawrence Ferlinghetti and later became a close friend of Kenneth Rexroth and Marianne Moore. "Thank you for these poems and for a lifetime of keeping alive, in flames and in embers, this really, this wonderful person--yourself"--William I. Elliott, Poetry Kanto.

Appearances

Oden, Gloria

Poetry. "These poems are about the mind's amazing ability to perceive itself at exactly the moment when the self is least stable: the moment of change. ONE HUNDRED ASPECTS OF THE MOON is a rich poetry of awareness in motion"--Jack Foley, host of KPFA Radio's "Cover to Cover." Leza Lowitz is the recipient of a PEN Syndicated Fiction Aware, the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Award for the translation of Japanese Literature, two Pushcart Prize nominations, and literary fellowships from the NEA, NEH and the California Arts Council. She currently resides in Tokyo, where she directs the Sun and Moon Yoga Studio.

100 Aspects of the Moon

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