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Reading the Iliad with an open rather than a pre-judging mind-that is, reading it "whole"-brings to light psychological elements, philosophic dimensions, emotional nuances, and myriad dramatic subtleties that remain forever locked in darkness for those who assume, believe, or have been taught that the poem is "primitive."

An expression of gratitude for a life lived away from the madding crowd. This poetry collection was penned about a year after Berman moved to a small town in Mexico. With the frenzy of American life receding into the background, he was able to sink into the stillness of his new surroundings, allowing long-dormant creative energies to surface.

George Haskel, a retired professor of German literature, decides to found an institute to promote dullness, as a counterpoint to the hustling celebrity culture of contemporary America. The venture soon attracts a number of brilliant misfits, who transform the project into a political movement, the Authentic Party, that ultimately swells to 8 million members. Events begin to overtake George and his merry band, as luminaries such as Bill Maher, Woody Allen, and Jerry Brown get on board. The final showdown with the White House threatens a coup d'ãaetat: Will America undertake a radical shift in the direction of authenticity, or will it remain committed to business as usual? -Amazon.

A long poem by the late feminist, historian, and poet Barbara Mor looks unflinchingly at the end-time of American civilization and culture.

More than a century has passed since the collapse and extinction of the American Nation, that massive and unprecedented catastrophe brought about equally by arsonists' flames and by massive, long-term, internal decay. As everyone knows, the full history of this once-great nation's doom was first gathered in the 2110 CE multi-volume work of scholarship, The Decline and Fall of the American Nation. Subsequently, under the auspices of the Universities of Asia Press, Beijing, there arrived a new and updated edition. As it happens, volume sixteen of that great work, in both editions, consists of the collected writings of Eric Larsen, a figure unknown to history except through these extraordinarily rare surviving papers that include, most importantly, the internationally famous "Diary." Guided by abundant scholarly commentary, the reader of Volume Sixteen is offered "innumerable windows" through which to witness "a ghostly past" and otherwise lost scenes of "a daily life that has become [by the time of the Late Ante-Penultimate], in almost equal degrees, villainous, pathetic, and risible." A chronology of the collapse may prove useful to the reader: Early Preliminary (1950-1964) Middle Preliminary (1964-1971) Late Preliminary (1971-1983) Early Ante-Penultimate (1983-1996) Middle Ante-Penultimate (1996-2000) Late Ante-Penultimate (2000-2006) Early Penultimate (2006-2012) Middle Penultimate (2013-2019) Late Penultimate (2020-2024) Early Ultimate (2025-2031) Middle Ultimate (2032-2037) Late Ultimate (2037-2041) The Collapse (2042-?)

You fall quiet when you hear a great truth, and each one of Helen Tzagoloff''s riveting poems in Listening to the Thunder lets you enter that silence of significance. From pictures of World War II Russia in a very young child''s eyes to images of post-war America from an adolescent''s view, to the perspective of a sophisticated woman and mother, these poems are piercingly clear, without judgment, in their stunningly deadpan lines. Huge upheavals funnel down into a single artifact, say, an abandoned apron, in Tzagoloff''s unforgettable mixture of innocence and experience. The poems are searing, funny, moving and as charged with atmosphere as the moments before and after thunder.Molly Peacock

Han Glassman was born in Korea and grew up under the Japanese occupation, where she was forced to speak Japanese or be beaten, and suffered from starvation. As a result o fthe Second World War and the Korean War, she lost her two elder sisters and her entire college class. In America, she met a Romanian Jew named Frederic, a Holocaust survivor and refugee named Frederic, a Holocaust survivor and refugee from Communism who shared her love of music and literature. Their wartime experiences, commitment to family, and education held them together through a difficult immigrant experience. Though she lost him recently, they had two daughters and three grandchildren named after their beloved father and grandfather. Han also has a daughter in Korea and two grandchildren there. She writes in English so that people in the West can understand what happened in Asia during these wars. This book is the product of a family, written by a woman who lost her own first family and then built a new one. Consisting of lyrical poetry interwoven with prose, it is a twentieth-century story: A story of war, loss, immigration, and then the gradual transition to a new world of electronics, computers, acceleration in the pace of everything--and loneliness. The book has been a life-long work of the author's, edited first by her husband and then, as they grew up and matured, by her daughters. With its deft hand and unfailing delicacy of image, the book is reminiscent of haiku. Its author has always believed that a family is like a person. If one person is gone, what remains is like a person without a hand, or a heart.

Salant's poetic explorations are surreal, comic, deep, towering, and allusive, effortlessly moving from Dostoevsky, Gauss, and DNA to personal laundry.

The pieces here are neither poetry nor prose: They are unique in form, since their form is determined by the uniqueness of their author's purpose. "The novel is dead and poetry has been marginalized. But literature must live if we are to retain what remains of our humanity, ' or the noblest traits of it, Engel says. 112 pp.

Mor imagines Kantian nauseous allegories growing out of a David Lynchian southwest American desert, a place that becomes a habitat of the psycho-political terrestrial reality now inhabited by people, and the rent is very high. 168 pp.

This volume of passionately intelligent essays laments the extent and enormous damage of the cover-up of 9/11 truth in American journalism and media.

Millions of men served in the Army during the Cold War-many inside major American cities-in ARADCOM (Army Air Defense Command). Until recently, one of the Army's best kept secrets was that the men in the Nike-Hercules system were in charge of nuclear missiles ready to knock down fleets of Soviet planes or ICBMs should they attempt to attack the U.S. To those inside ARADCOM, though, the even better-kept secret was the one about duty in Korea-a country where anything went and where the officers and senior NCOs shut themselves away to wait for their 13 months to be over, leaving the business of running nuclear facilities to the lower enlisted men. You could almost say that duty in Korea was duty in a place where the inmates were running the asylum. Kimchee Days is about life in a Nike-Hercules battery near Inchon in the early 1970s, a part of the Korean Air Defense Artillery-or the ADA, which the men usually called "A Different Army." In its way, the book embraces the spirit of the 1970s, along with the lives, loves-and many other things-that came with that time. Welcome to the asylum.

Ninety-eight black-and-white photographs, steeped in the pathos and predicament of the Afghan people, accompanied by soul-searching commentary and poetry from thirteen distinguished contributors. Basque-born photographer Alen Silva travelled twice across war-torn Afghanistan, to places few foreigners dare to venture, to bring us these soul-searing photographs of a devastated land. Among the ruins of Kabul, of the Bamiyan Buddhas, of Soviet tanks, of Afghan society -- the hope for peace still lights the weary faces of the Afghan people who welcomed him. Texts by Alen Silva, Alan Rachins, Bahman Ghobadi, Bernardo Atxaga, Ezzat Goushegir, Gillian Anderson, John Sistiaga, Malalai Joya, Michael Ratner, Mike Farrell, Suheir Hammad, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Toti Martinez de Lezea, and Yasmina Khadra.