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Works on Paper

Eliot Weinberger
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During the past several years, Eliot Weinberger's inventive prose has earned him a reputation as a candid social observer and penetrating essayist. Works on Paper is the first collection of his writings, twenty-one pieces that juxtapose the world as it is and the world as it is imagined-by artists, poets, historical figures, and ordinary people.
“Inventions of Asia”, the first section, deals primarily with how the West reinvents the East : images of India circa 1492 ; Christian missionaries in sixteenth-century China; Bombay prostitutes as seen by a New York photojournalist; Tibetan theocracy transplanted to the Rockies; a Confucian bureaucrat’s address to crocodiles; the shifting iconography of the “tiger”; looking for an answer to an ancient Chinese poem of questions; how the children of Mao have reinvented Imagism; Kampuchea under Pol Pot.
“Extensions of Poetry” explores the ways in which the world affects the imaginations of individual poets and indeed entire movements, leading at times to unexpected incarnations and transformations. Weinberger ponders such strange conjunctions as Whittaker Chambers and Objectivism, anti-Semitism among American Modernists, bourgeois poets –present-day wards of the academy and the state– confronting the issues of peace, American foreign policy, and The Bomb.
An essayist and translator, Eliot Weinberger, founded and edited the literary magazine Montemora . His published books include translations of the work of Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, and Homero Aridjis.
Language
English
Pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publisher
New Directions
Release
November 17, 1986
ISBN
0811210014
ISBN 13
9780811210010

Works on Paper

Eliot Weinberger
4.4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
During the past several years, Eliot Weinberger's inventive prose has earned him a reputation as a candid social observer and penetrating essayist. Works on Paper is the first collection of his writings, twenty-one pieces that juxtapose the world as it is and the world as it is imagined-by artists, poets, historical figures, and ordinary people.
“Inventions of Asia”, the first section, deals primarily with how the West reinvents the East : images of India circa 1492 ; Christian missionaries in sixteenth-century China; Bombay prostitutes as seen by a New York photojournalist; Tibetan theocracy transplanted to the Rockies; a Confucian bureaucrat’s address to crocodiles; the shifting iconography of the “tiger”; looking for an answer to an ancient Chinese poem of questions; how the children of Mao have reinvented Imagism; Kampuchea under Pol Pot.
“Extensions of Poetry” explores the ways in which the world affects the imaginations of individual poets and indeed entire movements, leading at times to unexpected incarnations and transformations. Weinberger ponders such strange conjunctions as Whittaker Chambers and Objectivism, anti-Semitism among American Modernists, bourgeois poets –present-day wards of the academy and the state– confronting the issues of peace, American foreign policy, and The Bomb.
An essayist and translator, Eliot Weinberger, founded and edited the literary magazine Montemora . His published books include translations of the work of Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, and Homero Aridjis.
Language
English
Pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publisher
New Directions
Release
November 17, 1986
ISBN
0811210014
ISBN 13
9780811210010

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