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Self-Portrait in Bloom
Niloufar Talebi - -
In the aftermath of World War II, “a new dynamism” was taking shape in Persian poetry. Award-winning translator Niloufar Talebi explains how Iranian poets were increasingly instrumental in “freeing Persian poetry from the state of decline and stagnation.” Into this backdrop emerges the poet Ahmad Shamlou in this part-memoir, part-biography, ...
A Constant Longing - Memoirs of a Palestinian Woman
Halima Alaiyan - -
A Constant Longing - Memoirs of a Palestinian Woman / with a Foreword by Prof. Rita Süssmuth (Bundestagspräsidentin a.D.)
"My dream draws on the future, and reaches across borders and generations... I look to the next generations who will grow up together; generations who can carry this beautiful dream of justice ...
Annoying Stories
Daniel Curzon - -
Annoying Stories are annoying to those who don’t care for author Daniel Curzon’s off-kilter sense of humor or his refusal to stick to only the Left or Right in his presentation of third-rail subjects such as race, religion, feminism, illness, and even death. He’ll tell you tales as a kind of ‘truth whisperer’ despite what the outside world wants you ...
The Sunshineboy: Memoirs of a Dancer
Hans-Christian Wagner - -
"I have run away from the place where I grew up to conquer the world and found my home on an island. I fulfilled my dreams, loved more men than I can remember, danced, acted, choreographed and produced, designed and managed, healed and taught. I shared the wealth of my father and enjoyed the naked freedom of having nothing. ...
