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
Stay—Douglas Messerli’s 12th book of poetry, and his first since his 2012 publication of Dark—represents work the poet, dramatist, and prose writer has written from the millennium until the present, a
The tenth volume in Douglas Messerli's ongoing cultural memoirs beginning in 2000, Shadows explores issues of potential danger and despair in 2010, with essays and photographs of numerous books, plays
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
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
As in his volumes from 2004, 2005, and 2006, Douglas Messerli brings together pieces on art, dance, music, film, literature, and popular culture to reveal the tempo of world culture in each year since
Begun in the late 1990's, Dark, Douglas Messerli's 11th book of poetry, represents the often cloudy and frightening days of the new millennium, a world of political, social, and cultural upheaval. Des
In this, the third volume of his ongoing cultural memoir, Douglas Messerli explores figures and issues of 2006—the films of Robert Altman and Jean Renoir; The Queen; the writing of Guest, Hauser, Sorr
This second volume of Douglas Messerli’s ongoing “cultural memoirs” features twenty-two essays, reviews, and other pieces on figures such as Leonard Bernstein, Holden Caulfield, Lolita, Cole Porter, A
Begun as an exercise in which Messerli embedded the first word or two from lines of poetry by other poets, First Words gradually transformed into a personal document of despair and hope in the years 1