The 20th Century in Poetry

Literature & Fiction

Hulse, Michael

RAE, Simon

Poetry

Ebury Press

Discusses the nature of power, the visual arts, crowds, and Canetti's autobiographical, nonfiction, and fiction writings

Essays in Honor of Elias Canetti (English and German Edition)

History & Criticism

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Scathingly clever short stories. Includes "The Devil in the White House" and "The Development of Iraq as a Case for the Files." At once a genuine story-teller and a literary documentarian, Alexander Kluge's genius lies in the very special way he makes found material his own. Each of the miniatures collected here touches on "facts" and is only several pages long. In just a paragraph he can etch a whole world: he is as great a master of compression as Kafka or Kawabata. Arranged in five chapters, the dozens of stories of The Devil's Blind Spot are condensed, like novels in pill form. The first group of stories illustrates the little-known virtues of the Devil. The second explores love from Kant and opera through the Grand Guignol. The third is entitled "Sarajevo Is Everywhere" and tests how convincing power is. The fourth group concerns the cosmos, and the fifth ranges all our "knowledge" against our feelings. In each piece, Kluge alights on precise particulars: on board the atomic submarine Kursk, for instance, we are marched precisely step by step through a black comedy of the exact, disastrous stages of thinking that lead to catastrophe. Sample titles include "The Devil in the White House," "The Development of Iraq as a Case for the Files," "Intelligence of the Second Degree," and "Love's Mouth Also Kisses the Dog."

The Devil's Blind Spot: Tales from the New Century

Kluge, Alexander

Chalmers, Martin

Literary

New Directions

Mother of Battles

Arc Publications

The Cherries of Freedom: A Report centers on Andersch's desertion from the Wehrmacht. The turning-point in Andersch's life, he interpreted it not as a fear of death but as an existential vote for life, libery and all things non-totalitarian.

Cherries of Freedom

Andersch, Alfred

Genre Fiction

Toby Pr

A historical timeline of more than four hundred 20th-century poems. “[A] prodigious harvest . . . an entire universe of poetry lives here” (Booklist, starred review). This groundbreaking anthology presents in chronological order over four hundred poems written in the twentieth century. The authors, both published poets themselves, give an overview of each period of history, while notes to the poems place each one in its historical context and trace the century’s poetic development. Concise biographies for each poet complete the anthology.By organizing the poems in chronological order, readers will see poets in a new light. Here A. E. Housman, for example, rubs shoulders with T. S. Eliot, showing that traditional forms can hold their own against the modernist orthodoxy. All the major events of the twentieth century are reflected in the choice of poems within these pages.

Pegasus Books

A first anthology of the new British and Irish poets of the 80s and 90s, with selected works from over 50 key poets, including John Ash, Ciaran Carson, Michael Donaghy, Paul Durcan and many others.

The New Poetry

KENNEDY, DAVID

Morley, David

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

In the second half of the 20th century a large number of exceptional writers emerged from the small Austrian Republic. Yet the relationship of many of these writers with state and society has often been stormy as Austrian writers have felt themselves excluded from the mainstream. Beneath Black Stars provides a cross-section of the best writing from Austria from the 1960's to the present and provides an opportunity to sample a rich literature that remains central to European culture. In Europe, during this period, probably only Ireland can compare for the number of outstanding writers originating within such a small population. As a good anthology should, this has everything: sex and death, politics and history, mountains and lakes, country and city, laughter and tears (and more tears).

Beneath Black Stars

Whiteside, Shaun

Galbraith, Iain

Kinsky, Ester

Rook, Agnes

Short Stories & Anthologies

Serpent's Tail

Empires and Holy Lands

Salt Pub

Almost painfully direct, the poems of 'The Secret History' testify to a new depth and a new tenderness in Michael Hulse's voice. The shadow of his dead father and the light of new love meet here in a collection that is impossible to put down and that lingers in the heart as much as in the memory.

The Secret History

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