The Soviet Union After Perestroika: Change and Continuity (SPECIAL REPORT (INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS))

Politics & Social Sciences

Roberts, Paul Craig

Dziak, John J.

Holman, Paul

Pfaltzgraff, Robert L.

Lafollete, Karen

Krepinevich, Andrew F., Jr.

Littlepage, Fred F.

Fedorenko, Sergey

Politics & Government

Potomac Books Inc.

The Memory of The Drift

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Invisible Books

Discussing the idea with reference to accounts of awakening in esoteric literature, as well as contemporary psychological methods, Living Space: Openness and Freedom through Spatial Awareness proposes that a common denominator in both physical and emotional healing is the creation of more perceptual and conscious space and that an easier and more spacious awareness can be achieved by relatively simple changes to the way we pay attention. These ideas have implications for the way we balance body, mind and spirit.

Living Space: Openness and Freedom through Spatial Awareness

Religion & Spirituality

OBOOKS

This greatly expanded volume combines a revised version of the 2007 text of The Memory of the Drift, Books I-IV (also published by Shearsman Books) with a fifth book, 'A New Walking Age', plus out-takes and abandoned, but related pieces, and prefaces the whole with a long related work, 'Airborne or Still'. "The Memory of the Drift is a serial poem, which began as a mixture of automatic writing and collaged text, its shape imposed by severe formal restriction. While compositional strategies have varied during the course of its development, the overall trajectory of the work continued to follow the admittedly approximate diagram I had made at the outset. The process of its making extended far beyond my original estimate, beginning on 17 April 1993 and not reaching a conclusion until 26 October 2017, with a further period of editing beyond that. In this edition, The Memory of the Drift - the 2007 version of the text having been revised and expanded by the inclusion of a fifth book, A New Walking Age - is prefaced by an earlier work, 'Airborne or Still'. I had originally envisaged the two sequences as being reflections of each other, and there continue to be significant links between them, despite the disparity of their scale. In retrospect, it strikes me that the crucial difference between the two derives from my exchanging a typewriter for a computer as my primary instrument of composition. Added to this, as a series of Appendices, is a series of out-takes and drafts, plus the original prologue to the work." --Paul Holman

The Memory of the Drift

Shearsman Books

This volume combines a revised text of the first part of The Memory of the Drift (written 1993-1999, published 2001) with the three interlocking, previously uncollected, books in which its argument is extended: In the Common Era, Dog Mercury and Vicinal.   While the first book was a poem-as-object which consumed itself as it progressed, those which follow it are constructed as variations upon a theme of headlessness (as a state of willed absence of mind, an image of ritual decapitation and a model of social-political organisation): they relinquish the postmodern surface of the original Drift in order to wrap texts which are both more approachable and more genuinely difficult in forms ranging from the misheard cadences of folksong to brief prose texts (the detached sentence, made radiant by its association with Little Sparta, is a preferred model).  The book's title, which refers both to Charles Olson and the Situationist International, gave evidence of its sympathies and intended range at the outset. The Memory of the Drift began as a text written out of, and concerned with, a counterculture that was inevitably defined in largely negative terms (there has, after all, been so much to refuse): it has become increasingly dominated by a perception of the practice of writing as an operation performed within a greater magical current.

The Memory of the Drift. Books I-IV

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