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Fargo Burns
Fiction. Fargo Burns is a man suffering from the delusion that he is a dog. While receiving treatment for this, he makes the mistake of falling in love with a hitman's beautiful girlfriend. "Fargo Burns, the madly baffled, restless and beguiling subject of Kos Kostmayer's compelling novel, bounces like a pinball between excess and sobriety - as do we, his unsettled readers. Kostmayer's visceral account of one man's quest for quiet normality is dark, tense, playful and deeply affecting."--Jim Crace
Cherokee Road Kill
Poetry. Native American Studies. A superb collection of poems rooted in remembering the past, and transcending the confinement imposed by poverty. As Robert Kelly writes in the introduction: "Reading Celia Bland's poetry, especially the acute lyrics in this book, I have the feeling of being taken by the hand of a sensitive quiet guide and shown time after time quick narratives, microtomes of life, that speak their own word. Word of a town, maybe, of a family, or a race, or perhaps even, after reading, the sense of a nation-word that has been spoken." "Never in the midst of this world of disorder is the poems' music given short shrift. Each piece is infused with it...That attention to beauty ...
Cicero: Select Letters
A collection of representative letters from Cicero's vast correspondence, with introduction and commentary.
Abracadabrantesque
Fiction. John M. Keller's mind-spinning, continent-spanning new novel takes off from a term coined by the word- intoxicated poet, Arthur Rimbaud. Its intimations of flying-carpet magic and pierrot lunaire adventure are fully realized in this tale of Americans at large in South American, European and African landscapes. Marcus, our narrator, is a form-athlete-turned-vagabond who finds his way, along with his scandal- raising sister, Connie, to the unlikely refuge of Montevideo. When their quixotic journalist pal, Felip, gets into deep waters in his heedless investigative crusading, Marcus is flushed from his Uruguayan hideaway and exposed to the perils of global intrigue. Keller's book, his f...
Adlerpoems
Poetry. California Interest. "Allusive, elusive, white hot with rage, these gnomic verses of David Adler's are as contemporary and as corrosive as tomorrow's dystopia."--Erik Tarloff "With ADLERPOEMS David Adler has reinvented poetics: the sounds, their meaning--our language--and the logic that governs it."--Stephen Trombley
The Life of Cicero
Cicero was Rome's greatest orator and one of the key statesmen of the late Roman Republic. He championed traditional Republican values against populist demagogues like Julius Caesar during a tumultuous period of civil war and unrest. During his term as consul (63 BCE), his decisive actions thwarted a plot to overthrow the Senate, controversially having the ringleaders executed. He outlived Caesar but then mounted a virulent opposition to Mark Antony, which led to Cicero's proscription and execution as an enemy of the state. The legacy of his speeches, letters and treatises on politics, law, oratory and other subjects endured, however, and was massively influential on Latin literature and, when rediscovered in the Middle Ages, formed one of the cornerstones of the Renaissance. The period in which Cicero flourished and died was one in which democracy was under attack from radical demagoguery and Philip Kay-Bujak believes his career holds important parallels and lessons for our own times. Written in a clear and accessible style, this fresh look at Cicero's life demonstrates his relevance to a modern audience.
Cicero: A Study in the Origins of Republican Philosophy
This book presents Cicero's natural law theory, including valuable definitions of the state, the ideal state, the ideal ruler, and the laws for the ideal state. Explanations are offered of the Greek sources of Cicero's republican philosophy, his influence on the Principate of Augustus, and his role in the development of modern political philosophy. As all the ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher united than Cicero, his authority should have great weight (John Adams, 1787).
Cicero the Statesman
This book is a critical description of Cicero's political life and influence during the last years of the Roman Republic.
