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Weinberger, Eliot was born in 1949 in New York City.
(Essayist Eliot Weinberger sets his sights on the Bush tea...)
Essayist Eliot Weinberger sets his sights on the Bush team with brilliant, thought-provoking, funny consequences. Written for publication in magazines abroad, translated into sixteen languages, and collected here for the first time, Eliot Weinberger's chronicles of the Bush era range from first-person journalism to political analysis to a kind of documentary prose poetry. The book begins with the inauguration of George W. Bush in January 200l—and an eerie prediction of the invasion of Iraq—and picks up on September 12, with an account of downtown Manhattan, where Weinberger lives, on the "day after." With wit and anger, and sometimes startling prescience, What Happened Here takes us through the first term of the "Bush junta": the deep history of the neoconservative "sleeper cell," the invention of the War on Terror, the real wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the often bizarre behavior of the Republican Party. For twenty-five years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay form into unexplored territory. In What Happened Here, truth proves stranger than poetry.
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(Karmic Traces contains essays as entertaining as fiction ...)
Karmic Traces contains essays as entertaining as fiction and as vivid as poetry, making unexpected stops in odd corners of the globe. For the past twenty years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay far beyond the borders of literary criticism or personal journalism and into the realm of poetry and narrative. Full of stories, yet written in a condensed, imagistic language, his essays are works of the imagination where all the facts are verifiable. As entertaining as fiction and as vivid as poems, making unexpected stops in odd corners of the globe or forgotten moments in human history, erudite, politically engaged, and acerbically witty, there is nothing quite like his work in contemporary writing. In Karmic Traces, Weinberger's third collection from New Directions, twenty-four essays take the reader along on the author's personal travels from the Atacama Desert to Iceland to Hong Kong on the verge of the handover to China, as well as on imagined voyages in a 17th-century Danish ship bound for India and among strange religious cults or even stranger small animals. One never knows what will appear next: Viking dreams, Aztec rituals, Hindu memory, laughing fish, or prophetic dogs. And, in "The Falls," the long tour-de-force that closes the book, Weinberger recapitulates 3,000 years of history in a cascade of telling facts to uncover the deep roots of contemporary racism and violence.
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(Nineteen different translations of a single poem with com...)
Nineteen different translations of a single poem with comments on each version by Eliot Weinberger and introduction contributed by Octavio Paz.
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(Una serie de sorprendentes fotografias tomadas por Nina S...)
Una serie de sorprendentes fotografias tomadas por Nina Subin en di-versos lugares sagrados del mundo crea en este libro un nuevo espacio donde la imagen es poesia. Este recorrido de asombros esta entretejido con un ensayo de Eliot Weinberger sobre el tiempo dentro del tiempo en la experiencia poetica. Asi, Rastros karmicos es tambien un doble examen lucido de la poesia y la contemplacion. ENGLISH TRANSLATION A series of surprising photographs taken by Nina Subin in different holy places around the world. They create a new space on the pages of this book, one where the image is poetry. Weaving through this tour of won¬ders is an essay by Eliot Weinberger on time within time in the poetic experience. Thus, Karmic Traces is also a doubly lucid examination of poetry and contemplation.
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Weinberger, Eliot was born in 1949 in New York City.
(Una serie de sorprendentes fotografias tomadas por Nina S...)
(Nineteen different translations of a single poem with com...)
(Karmic Traces contains essays as entertaining as fiction ...)
(Essayist Eliot Weinberger sets his sights on the Bush tea...)
(Essens-Gl?ck: Ern?hrung von der k?rperlichen bis zur spir...)
(Book by Weinberger, Eliot)
(Book by Weinberger, Eliot)
(Book by Eliot Weinberger)
Board member Mexican Cultural Institute, United States/Mexico Fund for Culture, Iowa International Writers Program, Berlin International Literature Festival.