Art. Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Essays by Alejandro Robles, Carol Damian, Emilio Garcia Montiel, and Marilu Menendez. This first book of Cuban American artist Ofill Echevarría (La Habana, 1972) is presented in collaboration with Un- Gyve Limited. Debuting as a member of Grupo Arte Calle in 1988, a graduate of la Academia San Alejandro, Ofill Echevarría has since exhibited his work in galleries and museums internationally. He lives and works in New York City, the urban reality of which is vividly depicted in EL MUNDO DE LOS VIVOS | THE REAL WORLD.

El Mundo de los Vivos | The Real World

Echevarria, Ofill

Arts & Photography

Un-Gyve Press

Photography. Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. SHOOT THE ARROW is a collection of Amy Touchette's intimate black-and-white photographs of the onstage and offstage life of celebrated New York City burlesque dancer The World Famous *BOB*. A central figure in today's neo- burlesque movement, the self- described female-female impersonator is known for her over-the-top blonde bombshell image. Touchette used 24-hour photo sessions and exclusive access to The World Famous *BOB*'s private life to produce a deep, unique, and moving photographic biography of a woman pursuing dreams of glamour and fame. Photographed strictly on 35mm film, Touchette's pictures of The World Famous *BOB* on stage, backstage, in her daily life, and during private moments at home, are rich and beautifully real. Also containing the words of The World Famous *BOB*—plain-spoken words that appear on the page as purely extracted un-distracted and un- distracting prose—giving account of her gender evolution from an isolated farm girl in the California Valley, to a rebellious runaway taken under the wing of San Francisco's drag queen community, to her current incarnation as spiritual transsexual performer in New York City's burlesque revival, SHOOT THE ARROW is an unusually penetrating and authentic portrait of contemporary life.

Shoot the Arrow: A Portrait of The World Famous *BOB*

Touchette, Amy

Photography & Video

Fiction. Art. In 1952 Ben Shahn said to Marian Parry, Marian, make the most beautiful book you can and I'll take it to Curt Valentin. She made THE PARIS BOOK, which she had conceived of sometime prior to this prompting, and as promised, the book was presented to Curt Valentin who was moved to publish it. Mr. Valentin, who had published several significant, limited edition books in which the writings of poets and novelists were accompanied by illustrations made by contemporary artists, passed away the following year and THE PARIS BOOK was never published. Un-Gyve presented this most beautiful book of watercolours in their exquisite detail exactly as was intended in a limited edition of 333 signed by the artist and now makes it available in this unlimited softcover. THE PARIS BOOK represents Marian Parry's affinity for the city in which she spent the first years of childhood: twenty extraordinary illustrations accompanied by her own hand-lettered prose—the story of an odd bird and his discovery of Paris.

The Paris Book

Parry, Marian

Painting

Poetry. Edited by Ben Mazer. The first-ever complete edition of the poems of John Crowe Ransom, restoring to the world – in the name not of mercy but of justice – a great many poems that he himself had once (and quite rightly) judged perfectly worthy of publication, poems that, joining now his select poems, will enjoy a renaissance.

The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom

Literature & Fiction

Ransom, John Crowe

Poetry

Literary Nonfiction, Latino/Latina Studies, Art, Music. Double Compact Disc Edition. WITH A CUBAN SONG IN THE HEART | CON UNA CANCIÓN CUBANA EN EL CORAZÓN features the artwork from 280 album covers from Iván Acosta's collection of over 5,000 long-playing discs—a collection which hangs in the living room of his New York City home and which includes the two albums that he and his sister smuggled out of Cuba on that August 28th, 1961; and by which he weaves a story of real life passages from his childhood in Santiago de Cuba and "tidbits of history that lay dormant in those album covers," local lore and landmark events. "Not a novel of politics, not a history of Cuban music, not an autobiography, but an anecdotal and musical journey of a soul," "a Cuban, an exile, a Cuban- American" liberated by and with the music. A double album compilation on Un-Gyve Records, packaged as a CD or in an alternate vinyl LP edition, and an exhibition of the album artwork coincides with the publication of WITH A CUBAN SONG IN THE HEART, which includes both the English and Spanish versions of the text. The 12.5 x 12.5 card-cover book is 162 pages with 290 full colour illustrations, with an introduction by Wall Street Journal contributor and JazzWax founder, journalist and historian, Marc Myers. "A book about love: love for a nation that does not allow itself to be destroyed; love for traditions that cannot be lost; love for music so universal that no one can silence it."—Ileana Fuentes "Rich in sentiment, anecdote and history...I recommend it with enthusiasm."—Oscar Hijuelos "With this book, Iván Acosta takes us by the hand on a musical and historical journey."—Mirta Ojito "...only minutes to gather your things. What would you grab to remind you of the life you left behind? A doll? A toy? A ring? Iván reached for two 12- inch long-playing records, one by Luis Bravo and the other by Ramón Veloz. To take records is both an amazing and fabulous choice. It's a simultaneous act of remembrance and revenge."—Marc Myers

With a Cuban song in the heart | Con una cancion cubana en el corazon

Acosta, Ivan

Music

Literary Nonfiction, Latino/Latina Studies, Art, Music. Double Vinyl LP Edition. WITH A CUBAN SONG IN THE HEART | CON UNA CANCIÓN CUBANA EN EL CORAZÓN features the artwork from 280 album covers from Iván Acosta's collection of over 5,000 long-playing discs—a collection which hangs in the living room of his New York City home and which includes the two albums that he and his sister smuggled out of Cuba on that August 28th, 1961; and by which he weaves a story of real life passages from his childhood in Santiago de Cuba and "tidbits of history that lay dormant in those album covers," local lore and landmark events. "Not a novel of politics, not a history of Cuban music, not an autobiography, but an anecdotal and musical journey of a soul," "a Cuban, an exile, a Cuban- American" liberated by and with the music. A double album compilation on Un-Gyve Records, packaged as a CD or in an alternate vinyl LP edition, and an exhibition of the album artwork coincides with the publication of WITH A CUBAN SONG IN THE HEART, which includes both the English and Spanish versions of the text. The 12.5 x 12.5 card-cover book is 162 pages with 290 full colour illustrations, with an introduction by Wall Street Journal contributor and JazzWax founder, journalist and historian, Marc Myers. "A book about love: love for a nation that does not allow itself to be destroyed; love for traditions that cannot be lost; love for music so universal that no one can silence it."—Ileana Fuentes "Rich in sentiment, anecdote and history...I recommend it with enthusiasm."—Oscar Hijuelos "With this book, Iván Acosta takes us by the hand on a musical and historical journey."—Mirta Ojito "...only minutes to gather your things. What would you grab to remind you of the life you left behind? A doll? A toy? A ring? Iván reached for two 12- inch long-playing records, one by Luis Bravo and the other by Ramón Veloz. To take records is both an amazing and fabulous choice. It's a simultaneous act of remembrance and revenge."—Marc Myers

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Poetry. 2018 Vermont Book Award Finalist. Poems and translations by Greg Delanty chosen and introduced by Archie Burnett. "A sense of vital, actual experience is in fact wonderfully sustained in Delanty's verse in its notable linguistic energy, product of a distinctive fusion of a literary lexicon (even Latinate at times) with contemporary demotic, Cork argot, Irish language phrases, place names, craft cant and North American slang (baseball lingo in one poem, 'Tagging the Stealer'). The language of his verse functions indeed as the verbal equivalent of the printer's hellbox (subject of one of the finest of Delanty's poems), which the poet tells us 'was a container in which worn or broken type was thrown to be melted down and recast into new type.' For in Delanty's work a world in constant transition (the 'simultaneous going and comings of life') is realized in a vocabulary and variegated tonal register that displays language itself in the process of being re-made."--Terence Brown

Selected Delanty

Delanty, Greg

"THE GOLDKORN VARIATIONS collects in one definitive volume, with a new afterword by the author, three previously published novels (originally from E.P. Dutton and Nortonpresses) about an aged European flautist, his music and his loves, from childhood to age one hundred and four.The author, Leslie Epstein, introduced Leib Goldkorn in his novella "The Steinway Quintet" which received the American Academy of Arts and Letters' award for Distinguished Achievement in Literature, later expanded as one of three tales collected in the first of these volumes, and which spawned what came to be known as Goldkorniana. The illustration by Pablo Picasso, "Scáene Erotique II 02-08-1962," 1962, appearing on the cover of THE GOLDKORN VARIATIONS courtesy of the Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), and the Pace Gallery, is one which the author, Leslie Epstein feels "particularly captures the undying energy of a man who never seems to grow old-in that sense, perhaps, Leib Goldkorn is like Picasso himself.""--

The Goldkorn Variations : A Trilorgy

Pablo Picasso

Leslie Epstein

Humor & Satire

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El Mundo de los Vivos | The Real World

Shoot the Arrow: A Portrait of The World Famous BOB

The Paris Book

The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom

With a Cuban song in the heart | Con una cancion cubana en el corazon

With a Cuban song in the heart | Con una cancion cubana en el corazon

Selected Delanty

The Goldkorn Variations : A Trilorgy