The latest winter
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In this, her second anthology of poetry, Maggie Nelson experiments with poetic forms long and short as she charts intimate landscapes, including the poet’s enmeshment in a beloved city—New York—before and after the events of 9/11. The poems of The Latest Winter are rich with wit, melancholy, terror, curiosity, and love.
The latest winter
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In this, her second anthology of poetry, Maggie Nelson experiments with poetic forms long and short as she charts intimate landscapes, including the poet’s enmeshment in a beloved city—New York—before and after the events of 9/11. The poems of The Latest Winter are rich with wit, melancholy, terror, curiosity, and love.
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Dear Architecture
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"Dear Architecture" brings together a collection of the most powerful letters submitted to the Dear Architecture Competition, hosted by Blank Space in 2015. "Dear Architecture" is an ideas competition that challenged designers to explore one of the most important communication tools of all time - the letter. With entries submitted from over 60 countries around the world -(...)
Dear Architecture
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"Dear Architecture" brings together a collection of the most powerful letters submitted to the Dear Architecture Competition, hosted by Blank Space in 2015. "Dear Architecture" is an ideas competition that challenged designers to explore one of the most important communication tools of all time - the letter. With entries submitted from over 60 countries around the world - the open letters challenge architects and designers to think deeply about the profession they are participating in.With a special cover designed by Irena Gajic, this book includes the three winning entries, and 12 honorable mentions to the competition, as well as a selection of additional noteworthy entries.
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Vous souffrez d'agoraphobie, de la crise de la quarantaine, d'une jambe cassée ou d'un chagrin d'amour ? Sachez qu’un livre peut avoir l'effet d'un prodigieux médicament, voire vous sauver ! Vous en doutez ? Essayez plutôt... Vous trouverez ici les meilleurs romans adaptés à votre cas. Garantis sans effets secondaires, ils vous permettront de traiter les pathologies(...)
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Remèdes littéraires : se soigner par les livres
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Vous souffrez d'agoraphobie, de la crise de la quarantaine, d'une jambe cassée ou d'un chagrin d'amour ? Sachez qu’un livre peut avoir l'effet d'un prodigieux médicament, voire vous sauver ! Vous en doutez ? Essayez plutôt... Vous trouverez ici les meilleurs romans adaptés à votre cas. Garantis sans effets secondaires, ils vous permettront de traiter les pathologies telles que : abandon, alcoolisme, calvitie, rage de dents, mal de dos, harcèlement, hémorroïdes, insomnie, jalousie, ménopause, obésité, rhume des foins, solitude… et bien d'autres !
La fonte hivernée
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"Se reposer du travers Jaune des seize heures Comme égarement D'alcool d'automne Tu contemples À trop voir l'oiseau nous envole"
La fonte hivernée
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"Se reposer du travers Jaune des seize heures Comme égarement D'alcool d'automne Tu contemples À trop voir l'oiseau nous envole"
To begin at the beginning
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In "To Begin at the Beginning", celebrated Spanish novelist and translator Javier Marías explores his impulse to write, the origins of his own family, and the connection between these two different sorts of beginnings. Exploring the difference between what is true in the world and what is true in fiction, he explains why an appeal to “real” events has never convinced him;(...)
To begin at the beginning
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In "To Begin at the Beginning", celebrated Spanish novelist and translator Javier Marías explores his impulse to write, the origins of his own family, and the connection between these two different sorts of beginnings. Exploring the difference between what is true in the world and what is true in fiction, he explains why an appeal to “real” events has never convinced him; why the history of his own family—with its Cuban and Spanish strands—has left him uncertain about what is legend and what is historic fact; and why what has been imagined or dreamed can end up being truer than what “really happened.” Complemented by an essay by Margaret Jull Costa on the practice of translating Marías, the cahier is also accompanied by images taken from the works of the influential Cuban artist Wifredo Lam. The result is a beautifully produced chapbook by one of Europe’s preeminent novelists, ready to be discovered and celebrated by English readers.
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L'attitude de flâneur excentrique de Henry D. Thoreau était perçue comme une prvocation: il n'en avait cure parce que la marche dans la nature était essentielle à sa liberté; elle formait le coeur d'un art de vivre exigeant plusieurs heures de promenade chaque jour. Elle s'insérait dans son idéal de culture de soi. "Marcher" s'ouvre sur le ton du plaidoyer et présente une(...)
Marcher
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L'attitude de flâneur excentrique de Henry D. Thoreau était perçue comme une prvocation: il n'en avait cure parce que la marche dans la nature était essentielle à sa liberté; elle formait le coeur d'un art de vivre exigeant plusieurs heures de promenade chaque jour. Elle s'insérait dans son idéal de culture de soi. "Marcher" s'ouvre sur le ton du plaidoyer et présente une lutte: marcher pour affirmer sa liberté d'homme, pour s'ancrer dans l'espace, fuir les villes et les clôtures et mieux penser le monde.
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Dans ce livre, il y a des ruines et des martyrs, des vestiges, des temples, des sanctuaires, des portiques, il y a des tombes, des cercueils, des mausolées, des cimetières, des épitaphes. Il y a des sépultures mythiques et des fosses communes. Il y a des résistants tués, des révoltés abattus, des leaders assassinés, des enfants massacrés, des nationalistes pendus. Il y a(...)
Ma très grande mélancolie arabe
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Dans ce livre, il y a des ruines et des martyrs, des vestiges, des temples, des sanctuaires, des portiques, il y a des tombes, des cercueils, des mausolées, des cimetières, des épitaphes. Il y a des sépultures mythiques et des fosses communes. Il y a des résistants tués, des révoltés abattus, des leaders assassinés, des enfants massacrés, des nationalistes pendus. Il y a des prophètes, des dieux, des vierges, des archanges, il y a des victimes et des assassins. Il y a aussi des citadelles, des basiliques, des mosquées, des dômes, des minarets, des miradors, des barbelés, des carcasses d'hôtels, de cinémas, des camps et des prisons. Et des détenus, des captifs, des séquestrés, des torturés. Il y a des condamnés à mort. Il y a des miliciens et des dictateurs, des fidayins et des moudjahidins, une infirmière kamikaze, une miss Univers et un prince rouge, des émirs, des C'est une danse macabre. Il y a un siècle au Proche-Orient.
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Upon his death, Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) left hundreds of notes on an unrealized great work he called ''The Book.'' Housed in a clear Plexiglas box, this card-deck conception of his project draws from that material, and from other writings alluding to its possible forms, including a letter in which he describes ''a book that is architectural... The orphic explanation(...)
The glorious lie/The gloy of the lie : A poetry card game inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé's ''The Book''
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Upon his death, Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) left hundreds of notes on an unrealized great work he called ''The Book.'' Housed in a clear Plexiglas box, this card-deck conception of his project draws from that material, and from other writings alluding to its possible forms, including a letter in which he describes ''a book that is architectural... The orphic explanation of the Earth, which is the sole duty of the poet, and the literary game par excellence.'' The title of this game derives from another letter in which Mallarmé writes, ''perhaps the title of my volume of lyric poetry will be 'The Glory of the Lie, or The Glorious Lie.' ” Each deck contains 48 cards: three with artwork on each side, and 45 with words or phrases on each side. The size of the cards, their gold edging and the physical housing of the decks in the box reflect descriptions and clues in Mallarmé’s notes. The manner of playing the game is left open, but quotes and diagrams by Mallarmé in the accompanying 20-page booklet point to the idea of pulling cards from each of the four decks and laying them out for one reading, then flipping the cards over for a second reading. The image cards function like the Arcana of Tarot, providing a visual language equal to the word cards. The readings might be used to create poetry or, like Tarot, to divine or illuminate.
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Through charm, drive, and diligent effort Octave Mouret has become the director of one of the finest new department stores in Paris, '' Au Bonheur des Dames''. Supremely aware of the power of his position, Mouret seeks to exploit the desire that his luxuriantly displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies who shop, and the aspirations of the young female assistants he(...)
Au bonheur des dames (The ladies delight)
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Through charm, drive, and diligent effort Octave Mouret has become the director of one of the finest new department stores in Paris, '' Au Bonheur des Dames''. Supremely aware of the power of his position, Mouret seeks to exploit the desire that his luxuriantly displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies who shop, and the aspirations of the young female assistants he employs. Charting the beginnings of the capitalist economy and bourgeois society, Zola captures in lavish detail the greedy customers and gossiping staff, and the obsession with image, fashion, and gratification that was a phenomenon of nineteenth-century French consumer society. Of all Zola's novels, this may be the one with the most relevance for our own time.
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En voulant devenir maman, la journaliste Véronique Leduc ne se doutait pas qu’au cours des cinq années qui suivraient s’enchaîneraient les injections, les médicaments, les inséminations et les fécondations in vitro, mais aussi les maladresses de son entourage, l’incompréhension de ses proches, la culpabilité, l’épuisement, les idées sombres, le violent sentiment(...)
Infertilité : traverser la tempête
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En voulant devenir maman, la journaliste Véronique Leduc ne se doutait pas qu’au cours des cinq années qui suivraient s’enchaîneraient les injections, les médicaments, les inséminations et les fécondations in vitro, mais aussi les maladresses de son entourage, l’incompréhension de ses proches, la culpabilité, l’épuisement, les idées sombres, le violent sentiment d’injustice, les espoirs immenses suivis de déceptions terribles, les nombreux deuils. Elle dresse ici son récit, qu’elle entrecoupe d’entrevues, de témoignages et de réflexions. En résulte un bricolage à la fois intime, authentique et informatif sur l’infertilité, une réalité encore trop taboue qui affecte pourtant un couple canadien sur six.
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