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Ravens in Berlin . . . Parakeets in Brooklyn . . . Chickensin Tel Aviv . . . Spiders in Cognac. City creatures spark the imagination andintellect in words and art by this father-daughter team. Odd Birds & Fat Cats (An Urban Bestiary) is anillustrated collection of brief observations on city creatures. Inspiredby the tradition of the medieval bestiary, bestiarum vocabulum, a12th-century bestselling genre that chronicled animals and beings bothreal and fantastical, the book features pithy impressions of birds and animalsthat delight, confound, and edify, written by Peter Wortsman, coupledwith detailed naturalist artwork by his daughter, AurélieBernard Wortsman.Featured creatures include:Pigeons: “When, finally, it takes flight . . . thisasphalt-colored bird is like a piece of the pavement which by some fluke ofgravity broke loose and is foolishly falling upward by mistake." Seagulls: “Fallen splinters of eternity, they hangoverhead with the equanimity and mild disdain of angels in a medievalaltarpiece, and unlike pigeons, refuse any direct contact with man."Ants: “Micro-managers in three-piece bodies,ants parody human antics to a tee. Or is it the other way around?"Dust mites: “Every time you scratch yourself or combyour hair, you are feeding the tiny intruders with the detritus of self."With four-color images throughout, printed in a beautiful hardboundedition, this one-of-a-kind volume will please the discerning animal lover,traveler, art lover, iconoclast, and literati on your gift list—and, of course,also you!

Leading poet and activist John Kinsella brings together amajor international collection of contemporary and historical poetry that speaksto the rights and welfare of animals.The Uncollected Animals is a unique anthology of poetrybased around all non-human animal life, with the welfare and rights of animalsat the forefront. The anthology includes over forty commissioned poems, andother poems provided by poets specifically for the anthology. These are setagainst an historical context of animal-referencing poems that range in timefrom ancient Greece to the 21st century. Kinsella’s introduction offersinsights into the eternal relationship of poetry to animals, and the creativearrangement of the poems yields startling contrasts and alliances that willdraw readers into a powerful relationship with the work.The book includes 160 poems representing some sixteencountries and many different cultures. Together, this collective utterancerespects and conserves a great variety of perspectives. Writing in a full rangeof styles, the diverse voices found inside include poets from Aristophanes,Blake, Coleridge, Du Fu, Melville, and Wordsworth to Anne Carson, CA Conrad,Kimiko Hahn, Paul Laurence Dunbar, D.H. Lawrence, Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou, RitaDove, and Marianne Moore, to important young voices, to performer/lyricistssuch as Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore. At all times, animals, their rights, andtheir welfare are at the fore, be they invertebrates, bird, mammal, reptile,amphibian, or fish.In a time of human-induced mass extinctions and rapidhuman-induced climate change, this subject could not be more vital andnecessary for all of us to consider, embrace, and act on with empathy.

"In 1972 Charles Ford, widely considered the father of American surrealism, hired 19-year-old Indra Tamang as a sort of all-purpose helper in Kathmandu, where he had rented a glorious old Rana-era house. Eventually Indra became Charles's artistic collaborator and almost a son. In 2010 Indra Tamang became the object of global fascination after inheriting two apartments in the Dakota from the actress Ruth Ford. He was her sole caregiver in her last years, as he was for her brother, Charles Henri Ford, in his. The initial story about his inheritance broke in the Wall Street Journal with the headline, "The Butler Did It-at the Dakota," and described a Nepalese butler who "grew up in a mud hut" and ended up owning two apartments in one of New York's most famous buildings. The attention that followed inspired Indra to want to write a more accurate account of his life, the real story of which is much more interesting, eccentric, and unusual than what any of the news outlets presented, beginning with the fact that he was never actually a butler. During the decades of the '70s, '80s and '90s, Indra found himself at the center of every fantastic little universe and scene, in New York, Paris, Crete, and Kathmandu, often as a quiet observer taking photographs and mental notes. There was Studio 54, Andy Warhol's Factory, the teas that Charles would host at the Dakota attended by regulars such as Tennessee Williams, Quentin Crisp, Patti Smith and Henry Geldzahler; there were special dinners at the United Nations, visits to Mary McCarthy and Leonor Fini, and chats in the elevator with neighbors such as John and Yoko and Lauren Bacall. Charles gave Indra a remarkable education, one that Indra absorbed with tremendous curiosity and enthusiasm. Nothing about Indra's life during his many years with Charles and Ruth, surrounded by their constellation of notable friends, was ever ordinary or predictable in any way. His memoir is at once delightful and surprising on many levels"--

"A most unusual portrait of early America based on a rare family document, in which a young mother's years in captivity with the Shawnee prove to be the best years of her life. It's 1779 and a young white woman named Margaret Erskine is venturing west from Virginia, on horseback, with her baby daughter and the rest of her family. She has no experience of Indians, and has absorbed most of the prejudices of her time, but she is open-minded, hardy, and mentally strong, a trait common to most of her female descendants--Sallie Bingham's ancestors. Bingham had heard Margaret's story since she was a child but didn't see the fifteen pages Margaret had dictated to her nephew a generation after her captivity until they turned up in her mother's blue box after her death. Devoid of most details, this restrained account inspired Bingham to research and imagine and fill the gaps in her story and to consider the tough questions it raises. How did Margaret, our narrator, bear witnessing the murder of her infant? How did she survive her near death at the hands of the Shawnee after the murder of the chief? Whose father was her baby John's, born nine months after her taking? And why did her former friends in Union West Virginia turn against her when, ransomed after four years, she reluctantly returned? This is the seldom told story of the making of this country in the years of the Revolution, what it cost in lives and suffering, and how one woman among many not only survived extreme hardship, but flourished"--

This fullyupdated edition of James Schuyler's letters to three dozen intimates, publishedon the 100th anniversary of the writer's birth, offers unparalleled insightsinto the lives, friendships, and sensibilities that sprang from the influentialNew York School. JamesSchuyler's effervescent takes on people, nature, art, writing, and love are onjoyous display in his letters to John Ashbery, Ron Padgett, Barbara Guest, AlexKatz, Joe Brainard, Kenneth Koch, and many more. They paint an indeliblepicture of a charmingly self-deprecating gentleman with an expansive intellectand a deliciously wicked tongue. "Jimmy wrote letters for the most civilized ofreasons," a friend of his once said, ?to inform and to entertain.?And thatthey do, in inimitable style. Peppering his aperçus with the occasional ?toutde sweetie? and ?pet noire,? the PulitzerPrize-winning author of The Morning of thePoem holds forth on everything from Dante and Delacroix totravel and gardening to the delicate workings of his own poems and those ofothers. While histone ranges from the lightly graceful to the racily profane, each letter isexquisitely tuned to its recipient. Schuyler's voice changes over the years andthrough periods of elation and struggle, including stays with friends and inpsychiatric wards. Reading these letters, one becomes intimately connected tothe man and to his words, which have only grown more savory and valuable withtime.

Coles's eighth collection probes the X of the unknown and of gender chromosomes with provocative smarts and sensitivity.

Award-winning poet and Episcopal priest Spencer Reece pairs his watercolors with inspirational quotes from a diverse range of voices for all spirits and seasons.

Roger Rosenblatt's hymn to our noblest qualities: embracing life, sharing love, and accepting responsibility toward one another.

Where does science meet poetry? Where does the street become the canyon in the window? Katharine Coles searches out the links between the poetry, people, and places she love, and her past.

The Marble Bed, Schulman's eighth collection and her finest to date, radiates wisdom and vision. Exultant even in despair, these are poems that stir us to be strong.

Award-winning poet Diane Glancy’s radical approach to the perennial mystery of suffering takes the trials of Job—the just man unjustly punished—into the New World.

This whiskey-fueled road trip gives us "a rich, raw speech map . . . of a generation whose destiny lies elsewhere." -Alberto Barrera Tyszka, from the Afterword

"Combining new work with material adapted from his acclaimed performances, Keckler confirms his storytelling mastery, revealing still more of himself on the page. A celebration of the ridiculousness and a tour through stations of longing, this diverse collection will thrill devotees and new fans alike"--Back cover.

The favored granddaughter of IBM's Thomas J. Watson reveals a life of glamour, depressive battles, and hard-won joy and peace.

Fame, ambition, idols, spirituality, and death. Trinidad seamlessly blends his obsessions into lucid, inventive, memorable poems.

Taliban Beach Party dances with the muse of history on the streets of Los Angeles, leaping from parody to prophecy.

Moments lived between Turkey and America come together in this debut collection by the award-winning translator of Orhan Pamuk.

The welt, the welter, the long black veil of long black hair, sex—wedded and unwedded, the dead, New York.

A couple becomes shipwrecked on an island of literary zealots, a place where every subject/feeling deserves expression. Sound familiar?

A mirthful novella about a whimsical, hapless young Brooklyn writer who moves to Los Angeles to write for the movies.

This suburban California coming of age navigates Trinidad's personal history in the shadow of Hollywood, against the dramas of the 1960s and '70s.

The irreverent, tweetable, ludicrous, painful, wondrous work of the L.A. punk poet-widely available for the first time.

Diane Glancy once again puts Indigenous women at the center of American history in her account of a young Inupiat woman who survived a treacherous arctic expedition alone. In September 1921, a young Inupiat woman named Ada Blackjack traveled to Wrangel Island, 200 miles off the Arctic Coast of Siberia, as a cook and seamstress, along with four professional explorers. The expedition did not go as planned. When a rescue ship finally broke through the ice two years later, she was the only survivor. Diane Glancy discovered Blackjack's diary in the Dartmouth archives and created a new narrative based on the historical record and her vision of this woman's extraordinary life. She tells the story of a woman facing danger, loss, and unimaginable hardship, yet surviving against the odds where four "experts" could not. Beyond the expedition, the story examines Blackjack's childhood experiences at an Indian residential school, her struggles as a mother and wife, and the faith that enabled her to survive alone on a remote island in the Arctic Sea. Glancy's creative telling of this heroic tale is a high mark in her award-winning hybrid investigations of suffering, identity, and Native American history.

A sudden catastrophe in Europe exposes the slow-motion destruction of a generation of Venezuelans and their struggle against repression.

A murder mystery and lvoe story set in the English Department of an Ivy League University