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Poetry of them, and do it in such a way That it looks as if it was as easy as could be For anybody to do it . . . the power of making A perfectly wonderful thing out of nothing much. --from "The Art of Poetry" When David Ferry's translation of The Odes of Horace appeared in 1997, Bernard Knox, writing in The New York Review of Books, called it "a Horace for our times." Now Ferry has translated Horace's two books of Epistles, in which Horace perfected the conversational verse medium that gives his voice such dazzling immediacy, speaking in these letters with such directness, wit, and urgency to young writers, to friends, to his patron Maecenas, to Emperor Augustus himself. It is the voice of a free man, talking about how to get along in a Roman world full of temptations, opportunities, and contingencies, and how to do so with one's integrity intact. Horace's world, so unlike our own and yet so like it, comes to life in these poems. And there are also the poems — the famous "Art of Poetry" and others — about the tasks and responsibilities of the writer: truth to the demands of one's medium, fearless clear-sighted self-knowledge, and unillusioned, uncynical realism, joyfully recognizing the world for what it is. Review:"Ecstatic, despairing poems . . . Metaphors explode here like supernovas aborning, and from the debris Seidel makes dense, durable poetry." (David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review) Review:"Dante is more than a revered bygone giant. There has never been so much evidence of his continuing vitality." (The Economist) Review:"[The translations are] both ingenious and accurate, setting a very high standard for translation of verse from Spanish." (Michael Wood, The New York Review of Books) Review:". . . Dostoevsky's [world], with . . . its resourceful energies of life and language, is . . . beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader." (John Bayley, The New York Review of Books) Review:"Does justice to all [the novel's] levels of artistry and intention . . . come[s] as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as is possible." (Joseph Frank, Princeton University) Review:"No reader . . . should ignore this . . . [or] wait any longer to acquaint himself with one of the peaks of modern fiction." (USA Today) Review:". . . brings out the richness and depth of the original . . . similar to a faithful and sensitive restoration of a painting." (The Independent [London]) Review:"Impeccably reported and often hilarious." (The Economist) Review:"The Walcott line is still sponsored by Shakespeare and the Bible, happy to surprise by fine excess." (Seamus Heaney, The Boston Globe) Review:"Funny, sound, and compassionate, Get Out of My Life will truly help you talk with your kids and not get mad . . ." (Beth Winship, The Boston Globe) Review:"Get Out of My Life has Spock's common sense, the insight of Freud, and the wit of Bombeck. I welcome this book." (Dorothy Zeiser, Ph.D., Chairman, Department of Child Study) Synopsis:The autobiography of the Nobel laureate.
Before he emigrated to the United States, Czeslaw Milosz lived through many of the social upheavals that defined the first half of the twentieth century. Here, in this compelling account of his early life, the author sketches his moral and intellectual history from childhood to the early fifties, providing the reader with a glimpse into a way of life that was radically different from anything an American or even a Western European could know. Using the events of his life as a starting point, Native Realm sets out to explore the consciousness of a writer and a man, examining the possibility of finding glimmers of meaning in the midst of chaos while remaining true to oneself. In this beautifully written and elegantly translated work, Milosz is at his very best. Synopsis:The stock market is big news today. Over 50 percent of the American public own stocks directly or indirectly, meaning that the financial well-being of tens of millions of people is directly tied to the market. Alan Greenspan has stated that it is not possible to understand the modern economy without understanding the stock market. But this has not always been so.
Many people now alive can remember a very different time, when the stock market was little more than a primitive insiders' game, viewed by most Americans with skepticism and suspicion. In Toward Rational Exuberance, B. Mark Smith, a professional stock trader with two decades of practical experience, tells the story of how this stunning transformation occurred. It is a fascinating story, involving colorful personalities, dramatic events, and revolutionary new ideas. In the course of the narrative, Smith traces the evolution of popular theories of stock market behavior, showing how they have greatly influenced the way the investing public views the market. But he also shows how some of these theories are based on faulty interpretations of market history that may lead investors astray. Freshly updated, this is a timely — and definitive — account of the market's true history and dangerous myths. About the AuthorDavid Ferry won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations.
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