Product Description: 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 complex and compelling issues of love and death, as well as transformation in films, poetry, theater, music, and personal events ranging from Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Djuna Barnes, John Wieners, and Billy Wilder, to encounters with Christopher Isherwood and gay porn star Leo Ford, re-readings of William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams, and the author's surgery for prostate cancer...read more

Product Description: This is the seventh volume of Douglas Messerli's ongoing cultural memoirs.Swinging forward once more, Messerli discusses a society, "In the Gap," a cold war term that defines the position of a spy trying to spot the other side's position without himself being detected...read more

Product Description: 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 that metaphorically and quite literary was going "To the Dogs...read more

Product Description: Although best known for her fiction, short stories, and interviews, gifted author Djuna Barnes also published numerous plays in her lifetime. This play, from 1923–1924, and never before published, is about a remarkable opera singer who visits the isolated Born family farm, stealing the hearts of the father, two sons, and daughter, while creating family frictions resolved only by the death of the father...read more

Product Description: Encompassing two hundred international movies, Douglas Messerli's Reading Films is a highly personal but profound discussion of some of the most important cinematic achievements from the earliest of film history—including numerous silent films—to current movies in theaters at the time of this book's publication...read more

Product Description: This, Douglas Messerli's tenth book of poetry, can be said to be part of a "dark" series of works, beginning with the poetry in his previous book, First Words. Dark explores a shadow terrain of the mind.Publisher of Green Integer, Douglas Messerli is also the author of the ongoing cultural memoir My Life ____...read more

Product Description: 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, Alfred Kinsey, Carl Rakosi, Marjorie Perloff, Inger Christensen, and Charles Bernstein, as well as a work on “The Death of the Mother” in popular culture...read more

Product Description: Collected here are ten tales by significant Norwegian writers: Tarjei Vesaas, Sigurd Hoel, Aksel Sandemose, Thorvald Steen, Finn Carling, Johan Borgen, Kjell Askildsen, Øystein Lønn, and Roy Jacobsen.

Product Description: 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, Sorrentino, and others; Southern myths—centered on the topic of “serving.”

Product Description: A continuation of the famed Sun & Moon Press series of selections of poems published in 2004 magazines, this volume expands the popular series to include all English-language poetry.

Product Description: The second volume of Green Integer’s ongoing series of international fiction includes Georg Heym, Wyndham Lewis, Katherine Mansfield, Hagiwara Sakutaro, Gertrude Stein, Osman Lins, Oliverio Girondo, Marie Redonnet, Guy Davenport and Mohammed Dib...read more

Product Description: 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 1995–1997. Messerli’s work has long been centered on wit and wordplay, but here a new romanticism enters his writing as he struggles to make meaning of fire, flood, riot, earthquake, personal events, and age...read more

Product Description: The fourth volume of the ongoing PIP anthologies of world poetry presents work of 20 major international poets, including Vicente Alexiandre (Spain), Luis Cernuda (Spain), Andree Chedid (France), Oliverio Girondo (Argentina), Miguel Hernandez (Spain), Gyula Illyes (Hungary), Kusano Shinpei (Japan), Vitezslav Nezval (Czech Republic), Nishiwaki Junzaburo (Japan), Octavio Paz (Mexico), Vasko Popa (Serbia), Jules Supervielle (France), Tada Chimako (Japan), Jorge Tiellier (Chile), Susana Thenon (Argentina), and Orhan Veli (Turkey)...read more