The daughter of an Italian father and an English mother, Rosselli was born in Paris in 1930 and spent her childhood in France. Growing up speaking French, English, and Italian, she was, from her chil
Paul Eluard was one of the most important of the early surrealists. Born in Paris in 1895, Eluard first became involved with the Dada movement, and after the war, disgusted by the commonly accepted la
Born in Tblissi in 1924, Armenian director Sergei Paradjanov came to International attention with his 1964 film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, which won 16 awards in festivals around the world. His s
Noted poet and translator Paul Vangelisti reflects upon urban living, love, and friendships in the context of the transience of life in this new collection, his twenty-third to date. Vangelisti recent
Douglas Messerli continues his annual memoirs in this 2007 volume.In this, the fifth volume of Messerli's annual cultural memoir of "Readings," "Events," and "Memories," the author explores a world th
This is Douglas Messerli's sixth volume collection of readings, events, and memories.In his sixth swing back and forth from the turn of the twenty-first century to the present, Messerli considers the
The Chinese poet Xue Di came to the United States immediately after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 in Beijing, becoming writer-in-residence at Brown University and a Fellow in Brown's Freedom t
In this important new collection, publisher Douglas Messerli has collected 80 lyrics of American folksongs and popular music from the 19th century. Some of these songs, particularly the African-Americ
Room of Rumor : Tunings is based in part on texts Oswald Egger wrote while a fellow at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. The original, largely conceived during his walks in Rustic Canyon in Pacific Pal
Born in Havana in 1952, Reina Maria Rodriguez developed her poetry in a cultural climate that could be both encouraging and tense. Over the years she struggled to establish a questioning, experimental
Is he a madman or the best butler you've ever had? Cadiot's zany first novel takes the British weekend house party paradigm and keeps shifting its terms. At this book's center is the enigmatic "I" - a
Tousled Beauty is a selection of the young German poet Dieter M. Graf's work, emphasizing poetry, often broken and "scruffy," from before the 21st century. Many of the poems were written on the road i
This is Douglas Messerli's eighth volume of readings, events, and memories.The connecting skein of Messerli's 2001 cultural memoir is a concept of hiding history, of somehow keeping the past secret. E
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Born in New Caledonia in the South Pacific. Francis Carco began his life as a libertine youth in the streets of southern France, and when he moved to Paris in 1910 he began writing, producing Instinct
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Exiled to the countryside north of Brisbane, Australia to housesit for her Aunt while the rest of her family prepares for her sister's upcoming wedding, Persephone Green finds herself faced with a sup
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