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The Prose of Other People's Lives
Fiction. Short Stories. Twenty-three short stories, some no more than a page, most a page or two, a few more than five pages, set in America and Europe, deceptively simple, often with a twist. "These sharp, nervy fragments of everyday inquietude twist and turn faster than ordinary prose would allow. Ridinger has found cunning ways to speed things up, as if nothing were more attractive than catastrophe."--Tim Parks "From the very first pages you feel as if you are tiptoeing into the most intimate part of the human soul. These short stories delicately capture the secret inner worlds of ordinary people, making them extraordinary in their simplicity."--Maicol Formentelli
The Shadow Wife
Sophie and Monique are identical twins growing up in 1950's America. During childhood, Monique makes the discovery that the game of swapping identities with Sophie grants her immense power over others. As a grown woman, Sophie meets and ultimately marries Matt, an eccentric, hard-driven rich man with mysteries in his past. Unexpectedly one day Sophie contacts Monique to plead with her twin for help in escaping from what has now become an oppressive marriage. Trapped because of Matt's threats of violence if she leaves him, Sophie needs to find some other way to save herself and her young daughter. Monique devises a plan to help Sophie, and so the two sisters prepare to become each other one last time. Monique, however, has no real handle on either who Matt really is or where his inner torment comes from. More importantly, Monique has no way to know, but is about to discover, where his anguish will take not only him--but soon herself as well.
Italian Poetry, 1950-1990
This anthology of the work of three generations of Italian poets presents the poems in Italian followed by their English translations. Each poet's section begins with a short biography and includes a bibliography listing all the poet's published work. c. Book News Inc.
Shavings
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by by Gayle Ridinger. Introduction by Simone Giusti. Camillo Sbarbaro (1888-1967) experimented for fifty years with a form of prose poetry that he called trucioli--"shavings." Some of the first were written in the trenches during World War I. Simone Giusti writes in the Introduction that Sbarbaro's quest was to capture the ephemeral joys and sorrows of life with the right word or phrase so as to "free human beings from the hell that comes of depression, deadened senses and dulling routine."
The Secret Price of History
1850s Rome. Goffredo, Sandor, and Eleonora, selfless idealists fighting for Italian unification, find a medallion after a violent face-off with French soldiers on the last day of battle for the new Italian Republic. The medallion is connected to an elusive treasure which, if found, could help the French Emperor Napoleon III secure his place in history. Ignorant of these connections, and desperate for money, the three friends consider having the medallion melted down; but circumstances have it otherwise. Meanwhile, Eleonora, Goffredo, and Sandor continue their fervent fight for freedom: first in Italy, on the side of Garibaldi, Margaret Fuller and Cristina Belgioso, and then in America in the...
Into the Heart of European Poetry
John Taylor's brilliant new book examines the work of many of the major poets who have deeply marked modern and contemporary European literature. Venturing far and wide from the France in which he has lived since the late 1970s, the polyglot writer-critic not only delves into the more widely translated literatures of Italy, Greece, Germany, and Austria, but also discovers impressive and overlooked work in Slovenia, Bosnia, Hungary, Finland, Norway, and the Netherlands in this book that ranges over nearly all of Europe, including Russia.While providing this stimulating and far-ranging critical panorama, Taylor brings to light key themes of European writing: the depth of everyday life, the que...
The Prince
"The Prince" is a political treatise by Machiavelli that is not considered to be representative of the work published during his lifetime, but is the most remembered. The theories in this book describe methods that an aspiring prince can use to acquire the throne, or an existing prince can use to maintain his reign. These theories include defense and military, perceived reputation, generosity, cruelty versus mercy, gaining honors, fortune and a number of other discourses.
Comparative Criticism: Volume 19, Literary Devolution: Writing in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England
The theme of volume 19 is 'Literary Devolution: Writing Now in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England', and includes poetry from Scotland, with essays by David Kinloch and Christopher Whyte on Socttish Gaelic; and poetry from Wales with essays by Jerry Hunter and Sam Adams; from Ireland, three cantos of John Montague's new poem on David Jones, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Gaelic poetry translated by Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon and Medbh McGuickan, and a new play by Vincent Woods, acclaimed in performance and published here for the first time; and English poetry together with new fiction by Iain Sinclair. It also includes an interview with Nathaniel Tarn, editor of innovative Cape Goliard Editions. Translation from European poets into English and Scottish is a seminal feature of poetry in this period, represented here by translation from the Polish by Seamus Heaney, from Mayakovsky by Edwin Morgan, from Rimbaud and Mandelstam by Alistair Mackie; and Sylvia Plath's translations from the French reviewed by Alistair Elliot.
A Star at the Bottom of the Sea
With help from her undersea friends, a starfish travels to the sky where she wants to shine and dance like the other stars, but she quickly discovers that things are not always as they appear.
Contemporary Italian Poets
This is number 12 in the modern poetry series. It focuses on poetry from Dutch and Flemish writers, amongst whom are included Peter Ghyssaert, Dirk van Bastelaere, Erik Spinoy, Esther Jansma, Pieter Boskma, Benno Barnard, Tonnus Oosterhoff, Miriam Van hee, Stefan Hertmans, and Eva Gerlach.
