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Flash Fiction International
Very Short Stories from Around the World
Av James Thomas, Robert Shapard m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
194 kr
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What is a flash fiction called in other countries? In Latin America it is a micro, in Denmark kortprosa, in Bulgaria mikro razkaz. These short shorts, usually no more than 750 words, range from linear narratives to the more unusual: stories based on mathematical forms, a paragraph-length novel, a …
Only the Nails Remain
Scenes from the Balkan Wars
Häftad, 2001
370 kr
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Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars is a chronicle of poet and critic Christopher Merrill's ten war-time journeys to the Balkans from the years 1992 through 1996. At once a travelogue, a book of war reportage, and a biography of the imagination under siege, this beautifully written …
Only the Nails Remain
Scenes from the Balkan Wars
Inbunden, 1999
370 kr
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Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars is a chronicle of poet and critic Christopher Merrill's ten war-time journeys to the Balkans from the years 1992 through 1996. At once a travelogue, a book of war reportage, and a biography of the imagination under siege, this beautifully written …
Seven Poets, Four Days, One Book
Av Tomaz Salamun, Simone Inguanez m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
92 kr
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Lauded poet Christopher Merrill hatched a brilliant plan: invite six other poets to join him in four days of writing in Iowa City. The poets would write for 30 minutes, creating a poem of 15 lines, and then read it aloud to the group. As poets heard the poems, they noted memorable words, images, …
Self-Portrait with Dogwood
E-bok, 2017
165 kr
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In the course of researching dogwood trees, beloved poet and essayist Christopher Merrill realized that a number of formative moments in his life had some connection to the tree named—according to one writer—because its fruit was not fit for a dog. As he approached his sixtieth birthday, Merrill …
Things of the Hidden God
Journey to the Holy Mountain
E-bok, 2016
606 kr
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"e;If I had learned anything during the war, it was that our walk in the sun is brief, and so I resolved to wander from monastery to monastery, a sojourner in the world of last things."e; So poet and journalist Christopher Merrill tells us near the beginning of this gripping account of the …
Necessities
Häftad, 2013
135 kr
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"Merrill is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinary rich generation. His range of sympathy, subject, and tone has always been prodigious."--W. S. Merwin Necessities is a meditation on the deepest promptings of the spirit that could be discovered through …
Boat
Poems
Häftad, 2013
175 kr
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Like Neruda and Paz, Perse and Milosz, Christopher Merrill is both a writer and a cultural envoy, crisscrossing the globe as chronicler and courier. Boat records a series of passages over a decade, employing varied formal strategies: meditations and fantasias, prose poems and versets, lyric …
Flares
Häftad, 2021
266 kr
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The richly imagined fables, vignettes, and prose poems of Flares reveal the elementary strangeness of this world. Here is the improvised travel record of a poet haunted by history, who documents what he discovers in foreign lands with an exacting and hallucinatory eye. Composed in transit, on …
After The Fact
If & When and Here & Now
Av Christopher Merrill, Marvin Bell
Häftad, 2024
184 kr
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A iterary testament to friendship and the ways in which a vibrant collaboration can inspire poets to plumb the depths of their experiences.The concluding volumes of a ten-year-long conversation in prose poetry between the award-winning poets Marvin Bell and Christopher Merrill. They write from …
Self-Portrait with Dogwood
Häftad, 2017
155 kr
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In the course of researching dogwood trees, beloved poet and essayist Christopher Merrill realized that a number of formative moments in his life had some connection to the tree named--according to one writer--because its fruit was not fit for a dog. As he approached his sixtieth birthday, Merrill …
Watch Fire
Häftad, 1995
143 kr
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This is a collection including poems from Christopher Merrill's first two books as well as later poems. It concludes with his exquisite long poem 'Luck', which begins "For those not born to wealth or royalty, / Luck's a language learned by fits and starts". Merrill treats the fickleness of fate -- …
Four Questions of Melancholy
New & Selected Poems
Av Tomaz Salamun, Christopher Merrill
Häftad, 1996
184 kr
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Brilliant Water
Häftad, 2001
146 kr
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Winner of the 1993 Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets, Merrill's previous work has received wide acclaim.
After The Fact: Scripts & Postscripts
Av Christopher Merrill, Marvin Bell
Häftad, 2016
172 kr
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"Prose was always meant for colloquy, risk, and intimacy. With these rich and conversant prose poems, Marvin Bell and Christopher Merrill return spoken language to sport--sometimes competitive, but often cooperative, exploratory, even humanely probative. What is a friend? Bell and Merrill …
