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Availability:In StockContributor:Eliot WeinbergerPublish date:2007-05-17Pages:194
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811216944ISBN-10:811216942UPC:9780811216944Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:EssaysSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC5RC9SJT7
With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us through histories, fables, and meditations about the ten thousand things in the universe: the wind and the rhinoceros, Catholic saints and people named Chang, the Mandaeans on the Iran-Iraq border and the Kaluli in the mountains of New Guinea. Among the thirty-five essays included are a poetic biography of the prophet Muhammad, which was praised by the London Times for its "great beauty and grace," and "The Stars," a reverie on what's up there that has already been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, and Maori.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811216944ISBN-10:811216942UPC:9780811216944Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:EssaysSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC5RC9SJT7
Weinberger, Eliot: - Eliot Weinberger is an essayist, editor, and translator. He lives in New York City.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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