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Product Description: "A knocking on the barn door drags us out of our sleep. No, the knocking isn't inside us, it's outside, where the other people are." With that, six blind beggars in 16th century Flanders-a ragged, profane, and irascible crew-find themselves waking to yet another grim day in the dark...read more
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9781567925630 | Verba Mundi Books, April 28, 2016, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: "A knocking on the barn door drags us out of our sleep.
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9780811224246 | New Directions, November 9, 2015, cover price $24.95
Product Description: âChristopher Middleton's rare genius for exact observation and metaphysical wit has given us for over half a century now poems of such brilliant craftsmanship and exacting sensibility that a few critics only have dared to assess their magic...read more
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9781937679545 | Hopewell Pr, October 6, 2015, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: âChristopher Middleton's rare genius for exact observation and metaphysical wit has given us for over half a century now poems of such brilliant craftsmanship and exacting sensibility that a few critics only have dared to assess their magic.
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9780521247467, titled "Political Anatomy of the Body" | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1983, cover price $47.95 | also contains Political Anatomy of the Body
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9781488563010 | Emerge Pub Group Llc, July 2, 2014, cover price $31.98
Product Description: Man lernt hier sehr wenig, es fehlt an Lehrkräften, und wir Knaben vom Institut Benjamenta werden es zu nichts bringen, d. h., wir werden alle etwas sehr Kleines und Untergeordnetes im späteren Leben sein. Der Unterricht, den wir genieÃen, besteht hauptsächlich darin, uns Geduld und Gehorsam einzuprägen, zwei Eigenschaften, die wenig oder gar keinen Erfolg versprechen...read more
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9781497525580 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 2, 2014, cover price $6.99 | also contains Jakob Von Gunten | About this edition: Man lernt hier sehr wenig, es fehlt an Lehrkräften, und wir Knaben vom Institut Benjamenta werden es zu nichts bringen, d.
9788490323069 | Debolsillo, February 6, 2014, cover price $14.95 | also contains Jakob Von Gunten
9781490494579 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 20, 2013, cover price $6.99 | also contains Jakob Von Gunten | About this edition: Auszug: .
9781406871234 | Echo Library, February 28, 2008, cover price $16.90
9780940322219 | New York Review of Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $14.00
Product Description: âChristopher Middletonâs rare genius for exact observation and metaphysical wit has given us for over half a century now poems of such brilliant craftsmanship and exacting sensibility that a few critics only have dared to assess their magic...read more
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9781937679255 | Sheep Meadow Pr, September 3, 2013, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: âChristopher Middletonâs rare genius for exact observation and metaphysical wit has given us for over half a century now poems of such brilliant craftsmanship and exacting sensibility that a few critics only have dared to assess their magic.
Product Description: In English for the first time, the pioneering Dadaist's insights and remembrances of a lifetime working side-by-side with the leading modern artists of the twentieth century. Painter, filmmaker, writer, and teacher Hans Richter (1888-1976) was at the center of some of the most important movements in modernism, including Expressionism, Dadaism, Constructivism, and Surrealism...read more
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9783791353227 | Prestel Pub, May 1, 2013, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: In English for the first time, the pioneering Dadaist's insights and remembrances of a lifetime working side-by-side with the leading modern artists of the twentieth century.
Product Description: A deluxe edition of the Swiss masterâs best poems. In a small, exquisite clothbound format resembling the early Swiss and German editions of Walserâs work, Thirty Poems collects famed translator Christopher Middletonâs favorite poems from the more than five hundred Walser wrote...read more
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9780811220019 | New Directions, June 28, 2012, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: A deluxe edition of the Swiss masterâs best poems.
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9781937679002 | Sheep Meadow Pr, February 14, 2012, cover price $15.95
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9781931357852 | Sheep Meadow Pr, October 11, 2011, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Brilliant new poems that capture, at once, terror and paradise as subtle music
Product Description: Shortlisted for the 2011 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translaton Prize The poetry of Jean Follain (1903-1971) is increasingly seen, by poets and critics in France and by his foreign admirers, as central to French poetryâs change of course after Surrealism...read more
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9780856464201 | Anvil Pr Poetry Ltd, December 14, 2010, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Shortlisted for the 2011 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translaton Prize The poetry of Jean Follain (1903-1971) is increasingly seen, by poets and critics in France and by his foreign admirers, as central to French poetryâs change of course after Surrealism.
Product Description: Christopher Middleton's "Collected Poems" gathers over half a century's inventive, brilliant writing by one of Britain's genuinely Modern poets. Here is an English writer, a European sensibility, of exhilarating originality and passion...read more
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9781857549805 | Carcanet Pr, June 26, 2008, cover price $41.65 | About this edition: Christopher Middleton's "Collected Poems" gathers over half a century's inventive, brilliant writing by one of Britain's genuinely Modern poets.
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9781933382906 | Green Integer Books, April 1, 2010, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In the tradition of Henri Michauxâs Plume and Julio Cortázarâs Lucas, British author Christopher Middleton presents hilarious anecdotes of the great economist Blaff, a bold, bluffing, blunderbuss character.
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9781931357494 | Sheep Meadow Pr, March 26, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Middleton, Christopher
Product Description: Cultural Writing. Essays. Menard Press is proud to publish two fine and contrasting essays by this singular figure and one of the most significant British poets "...to be found on that important frontier between mainstream and the experimental, flinging out messages in bottles into a sea of unknowing"--Anthony Rudlof...read more
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9781874320586 | Menard Pr, January 1, 2007, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Cultural Writing.
Product Description: Based on encounters, observations, and gleanings while traveling the world, this collection of Joachim Sartorius' eclectic and esoteric verse ranges in topic from the yellow cabs of Lagos and the horseshoes on Hitler's favorite steed to North African guards loading bottles of butane onto a trolley outside a crematorium...read more
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9781857548327 | Carcanet Pr, April 28, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Based on encounters, observations, and gleanings while traveling the world, this collection of Joachim Sartorius' eclectic and esoteric verse ranges in topic from the yellow cabs of Lagos and the horseshoes on Hitler's favorite steed to North African guards loading bottles of butane onto a trolley outside a crematorium.
Product Description: The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, âIf he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place,â Robert Walser (1878â1956) is only now finding an audience among English-speaking readers commensurate with his meritsâif not with his self-image...read more
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9780803248076 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, âIf he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place,â Robert Walser (1878â1956) is only now finding an audience among English-speaking readers commensurate with his meritsâif not with his self-image.
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9780803298330 | Bison Books, September 1, 2005, cover price $16.95
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9781931357982 | Sheep Meadow Pr, April 27, 2005, cover price $13.95
Product Description: Christopher Middleton, long a resident of the USA, is one of Britain's finest poets. He was writing (not for publication) his 'Nocturnal Journal' during the two years prior to his retirement from the University of Texas at Austin, where he had taught German and Comparative Literature since 1966...read more
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9780907562511 | Shearsman Books, September 30, 2004, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Christopher Middleton, long a resident of the USA, is one of Britain's finest poets.
This stunning collection of poems opens up an entire world: the rich, virile, and highly literate Moslem culture of medieval Spain. This pioneering volume spans the full range of poetic emotion and enterprise, making this lost world of a millennium ago marvellously tangible, vivid and palpable. It pays special attention to the female poets, and to the evolution and meaning of the verse structures and songforms. This is a work of scholarly importance as well as a straightforward poetic pleasure.
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9780879238872 | David R Godine Pub, April 1, 1993, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This stunning collection of poems opens up an entire world: the rich, virile, and highly literate Moslem culture of medieval Spain.
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9781567921939 | David R Godine Pub, March 1, 2004, cover price $18.95
Product Description: Caroline Kizer, Pulitzer Prize winner and former director of the literary section of the National Endowment for the Arts, has stated: "I believe Middleton is the finest living poet writing in English. If this were a just world, he would have the Nobel Prize...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781931357135 | Sheep Meadow Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Caroline Kizer, Pulitzer Prize winner and former director of the literary section of the National Endowment for the Arts, has stated: "I believe Middleton is the finest living poet writing in English.
Product Description: Christopher Middletonâs writing in Crypto-Topographia falls within the genre of Âshort proseâ, which Middleton defines as Âliminal, ludic and disruptiveâ. Many of the texts concern places, singly or clustered, which offer their own secret store of time: lived time, signs of presence, whispers or howls...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781900564977 | Enitharmon Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Christopher Middletonâs writing in Crypto-Topographia falls within the genre of Âshort proseâ, which Middleton defines as Âliminal, ludic and disruptiveâ.
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9781886224445 | Burning Deck Books, December 1, 2001, cover price $14.00
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9781857545128 | Carcanet Pr, July 1, 2001, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: "The Word Pavilion" is a journey, now exuberant, now straggling, into the finite and on to boundlessness.
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