Автор: Hashmi Shadab Zeest Название: Kohl & Chalk ISBN: 0985288396 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780985288396 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2207.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Asian American Studies. Winner of the 2014 San Diego Book Award for Best Published Poetry. The bride who contemplates her half paralyzed face on the eve of marriage (in the opening poem, Facial Palsy) is emblematic of the larger story of Pakistan: an ancient culture fractured by new and divergent identities. The poet, like the bride whose face is divided into lit and dim halves, gazes into the mirrors of history and politics to make sense of the disjunctive parts that refuse to come together as a whole. The very multiplicities of culture that the poet celebrates (Socrates / mangoes cut in cubes, Iqbal's poems on marble construction paper, rouge from Paris, coconut oil from Orissa) are also the cause of dissonance (War cries of the Greeks / in plume red / Mongols / in horse-leather red, Gunga Din's ghost lifted from the tennis courts / of Peshawar Club)--dissonance that is further amplified in the post-9/11 wars to which a Pakistani-American response in poetry has thus far been absent. KOHL AND CHALK is that response in the voice of a daughter, a mother, a global citizen.
Автор: Kohl Jack Название: Loco-Motive ISBN: 0692752447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692752449 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2585.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: On New Year's Eve of 1859, Henry David Thoreau wrote: "A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as his brain. We exaggerate the importance and exclusiveness of the headquarters."
And at the start of the new millennium, a pudgy young writer, Rex Shell, engages his own legs and arms and takes up running to lose weight. When a new job takes him from Atlanta to The Pauktaug Press on Long Island's north shore, young Shell takes notice of a pair of hardly youthful local men who show promise of shattering the world record for the 10-kilometer distance.
One of these runners happens to be Shell's new editor, Lawrence Hare. Through Hare, Shell is about to learn that all is not well in the bucolic village of Pauktaug-or in its running community-where death may come from trying to make the most of life, and where the mind may be lost and murder found if one believes the "whole duty of man may be expressed in one line, -Make to yourself a perfect body."
Readers of That Iron String, the first novel in the Pauktaug Trilogy, will find another eerie adventure in the realm of philosophical-thriller via the provocative Loco-Motive.
Praise for That Iron String, the first novel in the Pauktaug Trilogy
"I know of no other recent novel that gets to grips so well with the contradictions and heartache of a professional piano career. Kohl's complex plot weaves realities with abstract philosophical discussions explaining the coming death of traditional repertoire, which he calls Music (with a capital M)." -Michael Johnson, Facts & Arts
"That Iron String is a haunting psychogram of two young musicians that at times lets me wish I wouldn't have known anything about classical music education, the competition circus and the entire business of making music." -Wiebke Kuester, ConcertoNet.com
"A refined and deliciously-entangled thriller, the novel addresses the risk, jubilation and uncertainty of becoming a concert pianist, a decision that author Jack Kohl-himself a professional pianist-presumably understands." -Gordon Hamilton, Limelight Magazine
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