Tony Towle | Winter Journey | Hanging Loose | 2008
The romantic temperment, tempered by time, cool and classical.
James Church | Corpse in the Koryo | St Martins | 2007
North Korean detective Inspector O solves the mysteries of the universe.
Jack Spicer | My Vocabulary Did this to me | Wesleyan | 2008
All of me, why not take all of me!
Paul Clark | The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History | Cambridge | 2008
An account, not of the politics, but of the culture—how those model operas were collectively created, what happened to painting, what about the movies—sympathetic and brilliant.
August Kleinzahler | Sleeping it off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected | FSG | 2008
The tough guy, a guilty pleasure.
Susan Naquin | Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900 | California | 2000
A beautiful, granular history of the celestial capital when it was still itself, from the Yongle Emperor to the Boxers.
Benjamin Friedlander | The Missing Occasion of Saying Yes | Subpress | 2007
Lovely music of what happens, gracefully.
Alice Notley | In the Pines | Penguin | 2007
The American sound, clear and chill—need I explain?
Stephen Owen | The Late Tang: Poetry of the mid-9th century | Harvard East Asian Monographs | 2007
Belated companion to his high Tang masterwork, fully its equal—what you need on Li Shangyin, Du Mu, Bo Juyi, and the milieu.
Der Nister | The Family Mashber | New York Review Books Classics | 2008
Magic socialist realism in the shetl of Berdichev.
Ron Padgett | How to Be Perfect | Coffee House | 2007
As is.
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More Simon Schuchat here.
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Tony Towle | Winter Journey | Hanging Loose | 2008
The romantic temperment, tempered by time, cool and classical.
James Church | Corpse in the Koryo | St Martins | 2007
North Korean detective Inspector O solves the mysteries of the universe.
Jack Spicer | My Vocabulary Did this to me | Wesleyan | 2008
All of me, why not take all of me!
Paul Clark | The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History | Cambridge | 2008
An account, not of the politics, but of the culture—how those model operas were collectively created, what happened to painting, what about the movies—sympathetic and brilliant.
August Kleinzahler | Sleeping it off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected | FSG | 2008
The tough guy, a guilty pleasure.
Susan Naquin | Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900 | California | 2000
A beautiful, granular history of the celestial capital when it was still itself, from the Yongle Emperor to the Boxers.
Benjamin Friedlander | The Missing Occasion of Saying Yes | Subpress | 2007
Lovely music of what happens, gracefully.
Alice Notley | In the Pines | Penguin | 2007
The American sound, clear and chill—need I explain?
Stephen Owen | The Late Tang: Poetry of the mid-9th century | Harvard East Asian Monographs | 2007
Belated companion to his high Tang masterwork, fully its equal—what you need on Li Shangyin, Du Mu, Bo Juyi, and the milieu.
Der Nister | The Family Mashber | New York Review Books Classics | 2008
Magic socialist realism in the shetl of Berdichev.
Ron Padgett | How to Be Perfect | Coffee House | 2007
As is.
*
More Simon Schuchat here.
Written by Steve Evans
May 23, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Posted in Attention Span 2008, Commented List
Tagged with Alice Notley, August Kleinzahler, Benjamin Friedlander, Der Nister, Jack Spicer, James Church, Paul Clark, Ron Padgett, Stephen Owen, Susan Naquin, Tony Towle