collected poems
The Yale Younger Poets Anthology
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bradley, George, PUBLISHER: Yale University Press, "An important and elegant history of American poetry -- how it has been written, received, and read over the course of the century. It is a fascinating survey of the shifting tides in this country's literary tastes". -- J. d. McClatchy "Like most editors the Yale series has had, Auden had no sooner taken the job than he began to worry about the amount of work involved.... He complained vigorously about the introduction requirement he had agreed to only a week before: 'Personally, I am very much against the critical estimate business and would like to see the policy changed. These introductions always sound awful, and the whole idea that a new poet should be introduced by an older one as if he were a debutante or a new face cream, deplorable and false.' The Press held its ground, though. If Benet and MacLeish could do it, so could the new editor. And so, over his objections, Auden was brought to doa task he would accomplish spectacularly well". -- from the Introduction In Yale University Press inaugurated the Yale Series of Younger Poets, designed to "afford a public medium for the work of young men and women who have not vet secured a wide public recognition". This anthology of the longest-running poetry series in the United States tells the story of American poetry in this century. At first a forum for a conservative taste in parochial college verse, the Younger Poets Series soon opened up to unconventional but profound young talents from across the country -- such as James Agee, Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Walker, William Meredith, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery John Hollander, James Tate, Carolyn Forche, and Robert Hass. This anthology includes poems from the first book by eachof the 92 winners of the annual Younger Poets contest. The selections are accompanied by an introduction by George Bradley, the winner of the contest. Bradley charts the course of the series under the aegis of such contest judges as Stephen Vincent Benet, W. H. Auden, and James Merrill, lacing his narrative with anecdotes about the judges and winners. He also establishes the series' vital role in the development of American poetry and American publishing. The anthology is divided into two sections: "The Early Years", which briefly presents the first 31 winners of the contest, and "The Modern Series", which gives ample room to display the early work of some of America's finest poets. All poets are introduced by a biographical headnote, and in the second section Bradley has added a brief commentary directing the reader to the salient features of each poet's work.
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lewis, Michael, PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton & Company, Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what "may be the best book ever written on business" (Weekly Standard). I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it-before I had a story to fall in love with. It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games? With these words Michael Lewis launches us into the funniest, smartest, and most contrarian book since, well, since Liar's Poker. Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the front offices of major league teams, and the dugouts, perhaps even in the minds of the players themselves. Lewis mines all these possibilities-his intimate and original portraits of big league ballplayers are alone worth the price of admission-but the real jackpot is a cache of numbers-numbers -collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers and physics professors. What these geek numbers show-no, prove-is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information has been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland Athletics. Billy paid attention to those numbers -with the second lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to-and this book records his astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. Moneyball is a roller coaster ride: before the season opens, Oakland must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players, is written off by just about everyone, and then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win...how can we not cheer for David?
The Stranger's Child
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hollinghurst, Alan, PUBLISHER: Vintage Canada, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The Stranger's Child is Alan Hollinghurst's masterpiece, the book that cements his position as one of the finest novelists of our time. In its scope, intelligence and elegance, The Stranger's Child can be placed in the great tradition of the novel alongside epics by Marcel Proust and Anthony Powell. And yet, in its subtly political exploration of homosexuality in English society, it deals with an utterly contemporary subject in an utterly contemporary way. The Stranger's Child""begins with sixteen-year-old Daphne Sawle sitting in a hammock in the garden of Two Acres, the family home in suburban London. She is making a show of reading Tennyson before her brother George arrives to visit with his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a handsome, assured and sometimes outrageous young man with a burgeoning reputation as a poet. After a tantalizing and dramatic weekend Cecil writes a long poem in Daphne's autograph album as a parting gift. It is titled "Two Acres," and both Daphne and George (whose feelings for Cecil also go well beyond mere friendship) immediately see how important the poem is - but none of them can foresee the complex and lasting effects it will have on all their lives. When the next section of the novel begins, everything has changed: Daphne is married to Cecil's brother Dudley Valance; George to a historian named Madeleine; and Cecil is dead, killed by a sniper in World War One. A Cabinet officer and man of letters named Sebastian Stokes has come to Corley Court, the Valance family's country home, to put together an edition of Cecil's poemsand speak to each family member in turn about him. He is especially curious about Cecil's personal (and passionate) letters and unpublished poems, papers that seem to have gone missing, and whose absence will loom paradoxically through the rest of the novel. The book leaps forward and we are at another party, this one to celebrate Daphne's seventieth birthday. George is now the acclaimed historian G.F. Sawle; Daphne's son Wilfrid, a charming boy in the previous section, has grown into a nervous and somehow fractured adult. We meet Peter Rowe, a music teacher at the boarding school that now occupies Corley Court, and his boyfriend, Paul Bryant, a bank employee with a feeling for Cecil's poetry. Soon Paul is taking up an idea that Peter abandoned: to write a biography of Cecil Valance. It means making some startling discoveries about a past that the Valance family would prefer to keep in sepia and shadows. The Stranger's Child""is by turns a gripping literary mystery, an absorbing social study of some pivotal moments in history, and a sensuous and beautiful exploration of the secret passions that determine our lives. From Edwardian suburbs to the offices of the "Times Literary Supplement" in the s, from High Table wit to the realities of life working behind the counter at a provincial bank, it seems there is no corner
Joan Mirò, acquaforte all'acquatinta GIGANTESCA DA MUSEO!
Joan Mirò (Montroig - Palma di Maiorca ) Eccezionale ENORME acquaforte all'acquatinta e carborundum, storica, del grandissimo Joan Mirò ORIGINALE, storica, ENORME, da museo! Dimensioni: 100 cm. x 80 cm. (con cornice magnifica fatta fare a mano in argento, spessa 5 cm., molto elegante e perfetta per l'opera) (solo la cornice vale quasi euro...), 90 cm. x 70 cm. (è una delle acquaforti più GRANDI di Mirò!) circa solo il foglio, bassissima tiratura (solo 50 esemplari in numeri arabi + qualche HC), esemplare HC Titolo: "Espriu Mirò" Anno: Firmata "Mirò" in basso a destra, numerata in basso a sinistra a matita HC, pubblicata sul catalogo della grafica di Mirò, rif. DUPIN III 872, pg. 194 PUBBLICATA A COLORI A PIENA PAGINA! Editore Sala Gaspar, Barcellona, su carta GVARRO con timbro a secco "Sala Gaspar", stampatore F.F. Torralba, Rubi (Barcellona). Autentica importante Galleria italiana Passata in importante asta internazionale Etichetta con codice a barro al retro con prezzo (di tanti anni fa...quando i Mirò forse si potevano ancora comprare...) STRAPUBBLICATA! QUESTA poi è tra quelle su carta GVARRO che è una carta MOLTO più SPESSA E PREZIOSA rispetto a quelle stampate su carta velina! Riferimenti: Joan Mirò Quinta tavola da Espriu- Mirò. Poesie di Salvador Espriu e tavole di Joan Mirò. Sala Gaspar Editore, Barcellona Stampatore F.F.Torralba, Rubi (Barcellona). Tiratura a 50 esemplari numerati e alcune prove fuori commercio stampate su carta "Guarro" con filigrana "Sala Gaspar". DUPIN III, 872. JOAN MIRO' Montroig Mallorca "Espriu Miro" - Original Hand Signed, Numbered Color Engraving Title: Espriu Miro. Technique: Original Color Engraving in Etching and Carborundum on Velin paper Paper Size: 86.5 X 69.5 cm / 34 X 27.4 inch. Additional Information: The Work is Hand Signed in pencil by the artist at lower right corner. It was printed in in the suite "Espriu - Miro" that included 8 etchings by Miro and poems by Salvador Espriu. It was published by Sala Gaspar, Barceluna in a limited edition of only 50 Hand signed and numbered proofs. The printing was done in J.J Torralba, Rubi, Barcelona. The paper bears the Sala Gaspar watermark. Literature: Miro Engraver by Jacques Dupin, Vol , Rizzoli. New York, . Referance: Dupin 872, illustrated full page 194. L'opera e' BELLISSIMA, dal vivo e' una cosa magnifica! L'opera in questione e' un vero gioiello: ha una raffinatezza ed una profondita' assolute. Non so se vi rendete conto di cosa stiamo parlando: stiamo parlando del piu' grande maestro del '900! Provate a vendere od acquistare un'opera del genere a New York, e vedete che quotazioni spunta: quando è andata in asta a New York un altro esmplare di quest'opera, ha fatto qualcosa come OLTRE dollari! Sinceramente se volete acquistare grande grafica, penso che probabilmente oltre Mirò non ci sia nulla. Le foto non rendono assolutamente giustizia alla bellezza di quest'opera. Avete l'occasione veramente di entrare nella storia dell'arte ed avere un capolavoro di uno dei massimi autori dell '900. Opere come queste, soprattutto soggetti particolari e delicati come questo, difficili da reperire, passano di solito a minimo euro, e non in Galleria, dove costano anche di più! Prezzo di assoluto realizzo!
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