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A remarkable satire about a talking parrot written by Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter.

A speechwriter shot during a botched assassination starts to recover powers of speech along with pieced-together memories of the campaign he served and the candidate he helped make president of a "e;bankrupt and volatile"e; republic. The more the speechwriter remembers the more he suspects that he was the target. A frenzied, lyrical, farcical, anguished monologue on the personal and political.

"e;This magnum opus confirms David Trinidad's place in the poetic firmament: he is simply the best we have. A worthy successor to James Schuyler, Trinidad writes soulfully and sometimes photorealistically about the melancholy threshold where dolls and stars become inner objectsdirty, glamorous, destructible. Jacqueline Susann meets Sei Shonagon? Trinidad manages to combine neo-formalist abstraction with dripping gorgeous figuration: Bonnard's wet dream."e;Wayne Koestenbaum "e;This is a volume celebratory in tone, panoramic in scope, funny, and genuinely moving. Trinidad is at the center of what's relevant in his art. And this collection is more vital and more enjoyable than any single performance he has given thus far."e;D.A. Powell "e;Trinidad attends to the present to see into the past with such needle point precision it's like encountering a perfectly appointed movie set where personal memory crosses intimately with cultural memory. Poetic form in Trinidad's hands is a metaphor for staking a claim on the material world even as it slips away in a shimmery Hollywood dissolvea desperate, doomed reclamation of all that can never be held long enough."e;Robyn Schiff "e;Utterly deadpan and astonishingly fine"e; is how Publishers Weekly described the poems of David Trinidad. And here is the collection all David Trinidad fans have been waiting forthe first book to have works from all his previous books along with forty new poems: Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems.

"e;If you have a dog you will likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and prospectively, to equally profound sadness."e;Marjorie Garber, William R. Kennan Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard UniversityTurtle Point Press is pleased to announce the publication of the first English translation of Jean Grenier's book of meditations on the death of his beloved dog. Originally published by Gallimard in 1957 as Sur la mort d'un chien, Considerations on the Death of a Dog is a series of ninety diary like observations in which Grenier summons strength and understanding from his profound love of his dog, Taiaut. He calls on his deep philosophical and spiritual resources, his quietist version of Christianity and his immersion in Taoist principles as a way of contemplating and coping with his sadness and grief.These intensely personal, wistful and occasionally whimsical aphoristic entries, followed by several pages entitled, A Note on the Relationship Between Animals and Men, are a fitting memorial to a dog who, in the words of Elizabeth Von Arnim, "e;loved steadily and unchangingly until its last breath."e;

Set in Baden-Baden, Smoke is Ivan Turgenev's most cosmopolitan novel. It is an exquisite study of politics and society and an enduringly poignant love story. Smoke, with its European setting, barbed wit, and visionary call for Russia to look west, became the center of a famous philosophical breach between Turgenev and Dostoevsky.

Compiled and translated by Willard Trask, with an historical afterword by Sir Edward Creasy. "The details of the life of Joan of Arc form a biography which is unique among the world's biographies in one respect, " wrote Mark Twain: "it is the only story of a human life which comes to us under oath, the only one which comes to us from the witness stand." Using only material compiled from the transcripts and testimonies of St. Joan's condemnation trials, Willard Trask has arranged her words into a unique autobiography. Trask was Ford Madox Ford's personal secretary, and later a National Book Award winner and a recipient of Bollingen Foundation grants for his work in medieval and primitive poetry.

A touching, delicately crafted debut novel whose main character's inability to fit into daily reality will remind some of The Catcher in the Rye.

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Richard Howard creates the ideal class of endlessly curious and delightfully observant progressive school sixth graders.

James Schuyler on Charles North: "To me, he is the most stimulating poet of his generation."

Star-haunted new poems mince memory and culture into tidbits to propose a new "nude" poetics: scapegoated Adonises in aphoristic pillboxes.

This is the continuing story of Peyton Place in seventeen irrepressible syllables. One irreverent haiku for each weekly television episode.