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Karmic Traces

Essays

Karmic Traces( )
Author: Weinberger, Eliot
ISBN:978-0-8112-1456-8
Publication Date:Nov 2000
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $16.95
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:192
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / American / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.3 x 8.1 x 0.6 Inches
Book Weight:0.594 Pounds
Author Biography
Weinberger, Eliot (Author)
Eliot Weinberger was born on February 6, 1949. He is a writer, editor and translator. His work has been published in 30 languages. He first gained recognition from his translations of Nobel Prize winner and poet Octavio Paz. These translations include Collected Poems 1957-1987 and In Light of India. He has also translated other writers such as Vicente Huidobro's Altazor. He received the National Board Critic's Circle Award for his edition of Borge's Selected Non-Fictions. Today Eliot Weinberger is mostly known for his essays and political articles focusing on U.S. politics and foreign policy. His literary writings include An Elemental Thing, which was selected by The Village Voice as one of the "20 Best Books of the Year for 2009. He is also the co-author of a study of Chinese poetry translations, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei. In 2000 he was the only American literary writer to be awarded the order of the Aztec Eagle by the government of Mexico.

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