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Jo-Ann Carson
Ain’t Misbehavin’ A naked alderman, a haunted trattoria and a love that can not be denied. When the manager of the Black Cat Blues Bar, singer Maggy Malone, witnesses a…
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Sophocles
A definitive new translation of the Greek classic.
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Dial Sorcery
Trouble brews when a powerful enchantress fights a curse.
When Grigoire the gargoyle asks the enchantress Jane Black to break a curse, her successful storefront for all-things witchy…
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This finely-tuned translation of Sophocles’ Antigone by Richard Emil Braun, offers an interpretation informed by exemplary scholarship and critical insight. Braun’s translation highlights the extraordinary structural symmetry and beauty of…
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Ann Baker Carson
The History of the Celebrated Mrs. Ann Carson: Widow of the Late Unfortunate Lieutenant Richard Smyth is a book written by Ann Baker Carson in 1822. The book tells the…
Surveying the films, installations and performances of the superstar Icelandic artist
Widely recognized as one of the most exciting and significant voices of contemporary art, Icelandic performance and multimedia artist…
Daughter Of An Officer Of The U. S. Navy, And Wife Of Another, Whose Life Terminated In The Philadelphia Prison. In Two Volumes.
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Euripides,Anne Carson (New Directions)
A fantastic comic-book collaboration between the artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet Anne Carson, based on Euripides’s famous tragedy A NEW YORK TIMES BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF 2021
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Roni Horn,Anne Carson
Focuses on a playful and complex body of work developed between 2013 and 2015, using cliches or proverbs and watercolor. For each work, the artist made two watercolors of a…
Anne Carson,Margaret Christakos
Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner’s first poetry collection. Includes new material.
On the occasion of the press’s 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first…
Anne Carson
Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly interesting, Eros is an utterly original book by an author whose acclaim has been steadily growing since the book was first published in 1986 by…
This new comic-book version of Euripides’ classic The Trojan Women follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. The Trojan…
Ann Elizabeth Carson
We All Become Stories speaks to us because it reveals aging as not something that happens just to older people, but as a lifelong evolution - a journey of self-discovery…
Anne M Carson
Two Green Parrots positions our lives in a broader, ecological context. Anne M. Carson’s poems affirm human culture and values in the face of implacable realties. Beauty and suffering are…
Every poem in Anne M. Carson’s collection is appealing on account of the distinctive cast of mind revealed in a precise language that registers the author’s alertness to all senses…
Set in Nazi Germany, ‘Massaging Himmler: A Poetic Biography of Dr Felix Kersten’ tells in verse the remarkable story of a little-known humanitarian.
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Will Aitken
An urgent and mesmerizing account of the creative and destructive powers of great art, Antigone Undone also offers an inside look at the creative processes of Anne Carson, Juliette Binoche…
In this poem, Anne Carson bridges the gap between classicism and the modern, poetry and prose, with a journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon.
An autobiography, in which the author details the psychic split within herself.
Sophocles’ Electra tells the story of the revenge Orestes and Electra take on their mother, Clytemnestra, for he murder of their father Agamemnon, after he returns from the Trojan War…
Dr Richard Smith
Title: The trials of Richard Smith, late lieutenant in the 23d Regiment U. States infantry, as principal, and Ann Carson, alias Ann Smith, as accessary, for the murder of Captain…
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Full Title: The Trials of Richard Smith, Late Lieutenant in the 23d Regiment U. States Infantry, as Principal, and Ann Carson, alias Ann Smith, As Accessary, for The Murder of…
Full Title: The Trials of Richard Smith, Late Lieutenant in the 23d Regiment U. States Infantry, as Principal, and Ann Carson, alias Ann Smith, as Accessary, for the Murder of…
Documenting Tacita Dean’s new film work on the many resonances of Sophocles’ drama
Tacita Dean’s (born 1965) Antigone (2018) is an hour-long 35mm anamorphic film, and is the most complex…
Inger Christensen
Inger Christensen’s masterpiece it, translated brilliantly by Susanna Nied, and with an illuminating introduction by Anne Carson.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Anne Rooney
Published in Great Britain in 2019 by Book House, an imprint of The Salariya Book Company Ltd.
M Clarke
Full Title: The Memoirs of The Celebrated and Beautiful Mrs. Ann Carson, Daughter of an Officer of the U.S. Navy, and Wife of Another, Whose Life Terminated in the Philadelphia…
Full Title: The Memoirs of the Celebrated and Beautiful Mrs. Ann Carson, Daughter of an Officer of the U. S. Navy, and Wife of Another, Whose Life Terminated in the…
German artist and 2017 Turner Prize nominee BYttner examines depictions of beggars in visual culture in this project about poverty, art history, theology, and the politics of social benefits. BYttner…
Sharon Anne Cook,Margaret Carson
Two survivors of a family massacre share the horrific true story of how a former church minister slaughtered every woman in his family save one over the course of one…
Raissa Maritain,Julie Kernan,Michael O.p. Sherwin,Anne Carson Daly
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-401) index.
A heartwarming and beautifully crafted children's story book.
After spending an eventful evening lost in a forest Naughty Little Mouse learns the importance of respecting and appreciating his parents. The…
Jennifer C Carson
Maewyn Bridgepost, the tiniest Hapenny, a race of little people, spends her days, from breakfast to midnight nibble, scrubbing the hearth, slopping the pigs, and cooking for her guardian, Gelbane…
Patricia Harrington Carson,E. Anne Mazzotta
St. Lawrence County Portraits is a tribute to the citizens who shaped New York State’s largest county. St. Lawrence is a county with many natural attributes: immense forests, navigable rivers…
Chan Tim,Chan Sarah
Back from the Brink is an honest, no holds barred autobiography by Tim Chan, a young man with severe autism. His story of his childhood without functional speech, plus severe…
Fujiko Nakaya is one of Japan’s most important contemporary artists. Participating in the 1960s performances of the New York-based collective Experiments in Arts and Technology (E.A.T.), she became internationally renowned…
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TheexplosivegrowthoftheInternetandtheWebhavecreatedanever-growing demand for information systems, and ever-growing challenges for Information Systems Engineering.
Visualizing Hidden Structures in Art and Society
In her artistic practice, Andrea Buttner combines art history with social and ethical issues. Since the early 2000s, she has been exploring a…
Lucy Caldwell,Susannah Dickey,Jan Carson
This pioneering anthology goes beyond awareness building to engage seriously with the societal prevalence of sexist abuse and domestic violence, and the legacies of that abuse and violence in the…
Examines how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, and other identities connect to produce intersected campus experiences. Contributors look at both individual and institutional perspectives on…