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The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger.
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New Directions Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: |
New Directions paperbook ;
1355 |
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| Summary: |
The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger. |
| Carrier Form: | 211 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203). |
| ISBN: |
9780811226189 (paperback) : 0811226182 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PS3573 |
| CLC: | I712.65 |
| Call Number: | I712.65/W423-1 |
| Contents: |
From a Hymn to the Goddess of the Three Cities -- One (The story of Adam and Eve ; The world ; A journey on the Colorado River ; Hsaio Kuan ; Hsieh Ling-yün ; Agate ; Surviving fragments from lost Zoroastrian books ; The dead ; A calendar of stones ; The frog groom ; The Mara ; The Lushei ; Change dreaming ; A journey on the River Amazon ; The ghosts of birds ; Ou-yang Hsiu's Fu on the sound of autumn ; Winter ; William Sharpe) Two (The Great Wall ; The city ; The wall ; Once upon a time in Albania ; Bush the postmodernist ; Khubilai Khan at the Met ; That imposter known as the Buddha ; The I Ching ; American Indias ; Mexican indigenous poetry ; Béla Balázs's Chinese dreams ; Herbert Read's The Green Child ; Jeffrey Yang's An Aquarium ; Charles Reznikoff's Testimony) |