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"Fascinating collection of 12 prose poems, each accompanied by a pen-and-ink illustration by Bernardo Recamier. Morábito presents a set of tools for assembling the world based on John Cage's 'scratch,' describing the tools' distinct yet multiple, at times overlapping and even dangerous, uses. Translations unfortunately more prosodic than poetic"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
This collection of nine essays investigates the consumption of music during the long eighteenth century, providing insights into the activities of composers, performers, patrons, publishers, theorists, impresarios, and critics.
In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment—reading to others. After an accident—or “the misfortune,” as his cancer-ridden father’s caretaker, Celeste, calls it—Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver’s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the “City of Eternal Spring” is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad ...
Drawing from everyday life in Mexico and abroad, these subtle, unsettling stories probe the boundaries between sanity and madness, life and death, safety and danger. The first story collection from prize-winning author Fabio Morábito available in English, Mothers and Dogs features fifteen tales that show the emotional extremes in seemingly trivial details and quotidian situations: two brothers worry more about a dog locked in an apartment who hasn’t been fed than they do about their dying mother; when the lights go out on a racetrack, a man’s evening jog turns into a savage battle between runners; a daughter learns to draft business letters as an homage to her mother. As he deftly explores feelings of loneliness and despair endemic in modern society, Morábito weaves threads of unexpected humor and lightness.
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Modern Western musical thought tends to represent music as a thing--a pattern, a structure, even an organism--than as a human practice. Music, Encounter, Togetherness focusses on music as something people do, as a mode of encounter between individuals and cultures, and as an agent of interpersonal and social togetherness. It presents music as a utopian dimension of everyday life.
Num tempo imaginário, em que as panteras viviam em grupos, imitando os leões, uma jovem felina se desgarra da horda e inicia uma longa travessia em busca de si mesma. Partindo desse marco, o premiado poeta e narrador ítalo-mexicano Fabio Morábito constrói uma bela fábula sobre a descoberta da identidade mais profunda e verdadeira, livre das convenções sociais.
This study analyzes chamber music from Mozart's time within its highly social salon-performance context.
Alive with the wisdom, artistry, and emotion of more than 250 poets from nearly one hundred countries, this anthology celebrates the multifaceted experience of contemporary manhood. The lives into which these poems invite us reveal the influences of culture, heredity, personal experience, values, beliefs, wishes, desires, loves, and betrayals. Men are notoriously reluctant to open up and discuss these things; and yet when they do--as in these poems--they tell us about their families, lovers, relationships, political and religious beliefs, sexuality, and childhoods. There is much to learn here about who men are and how they see their worlds. Collects close to three hundred poems, in English o...
After John Vernon's brother, Paul, died and John had to settle Paul's affairs, John had to face the fact that his brother had lived a reclusive life of squalor, despite a promising childhood. This heartwarming memoir explores the themes of brotherly love, self-discovery, and coming to terms with the fact that the people we love are often those we know least about.