New Selected Essays

New Selected Essays
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780811217286

"There isn't a dull or conventional page, or an unlovely sentence in the book."--Scott Eyman, The Palm Beach Post

New & Selected Essays

New & Selected Essays
Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811212182

"Denise Levertov fulfills the eternal mission of the true Poet: to be a receptacle of Divine Grace and a 'spendor of that Grace to humanity.'" --World Literature Today

Where I Live

Where I Live
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1978
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780811207065

Tennessee Williams' witty, engaging, and elegant essays are now available in a revised and much expanded edition.

Visions and Ecstasies

Visions and Ecstasies
Author: H.D.
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1644230232

H.D’s writing continues to inspire generations of readers. Bringing together a number of never-before-published essays, this new collection of H.D.’s writings introduces her compelling perspectives on art, myth, and the creative process. While H.D. is best known for her elemental poetry, which draws heavily on the imagery of natural and ancient worlds, her critical writings remain a largely underexplored and unpublished part of her oeuvre. Crucial to understanding both the formative contexts surrounding her departure from Imagism following the First World War and her own remarkable creative vision, Notes on Thought and Vision, written in 1918, is one of the central works in this collection. H.D. guides her reader to the untamed shores of the Scilly Isles, where we hear of powerful, transformative experiences and of her intense relationship with the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. The accompanying essays, many published here for the first time, help color H.D.’s astute critical engagement with the past, from the city of Athens and the poetry of ancient Greece. Like Letters to a Young Painter (2017), also published in the ekphrasis series, this collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the creative process.

House of Pain

House of Pain
Author: Laurence Gonzales
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1557289999

New collection of essays.

Some Of Us Did Not Die: Selected Essays

Some Of Us Did Not Die: Selected Essays
Author: June Jordan
Publisher: Civitas Books
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2009-08-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786751169

“Forty years of tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art.” —Toni Morrison Some of Us Did Not Die brings together the seminal essays of June Jordan, the widely acclaimed Black American writer known for her fierce commitment to human rights and political activism. Spanning the length of her extraordinary career, and including her last writings, the essays in this collection reveal Jordan as an incisive analyst of injustice, democracy, and literature. Willing to venture into the most painful contradictions of culture and politics, Jordan comes back with lyrical honesty, wit, and wide-ranging intelligence that resonates sharply to this day.

Making the Archives Talk

Making the Archives Talk
Author: James L. W. West
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0271050675

"A collection of essays by editor, biographer, bibliographer, and book historian James L. W. West III, covering editorial theory, archival use, textual emendation, and scholarly annotation. Discusses the treatment of both public documents (novels, stories, nonfiction) and private texts (letters, diaries, journals, working papers)"--Provided by publisher.

A Northern Front

A Northern Front
Author: John Hildebrand
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780873515283

A Northern Front reflects the day-by-day disappearance of wild places and the ever-changing face of the American landscape.

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1681371545

The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form, criticism worthy of the literature in question. In the essays collected here she covers civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, describes places where she lived and locations she visited, and writes about the foundations of American literature—Melville, James, Wharton—and the changes in American fiction, though her reading is wide and international. She contemplates writers’ lives—women writers, rebels, Americans abroad—and the literary afterlife of biographies, letters, and diaries. Selected and with an introduction by Darryl Pinckney, the Collected Essays gathers more than fifty essays for a fifty-year retrospective of Hardwick’s work from 1953 to 2003. “For Hardwick,” writes Pinckney, “the poetry and novels of America hold the nation’s history.” Here is an exhilarating chronicle of that history.