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The Laughter of the Sphinx

The Laughter of the Sphinx
Author: Michael Palmer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2016-06-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0811225550

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A powerful, indelible new collection by Michael Palmer—“one of America’s most important poets” (The Harvard Review) Michael Palmer’s new book—a collection in two parts, “The Laughter of the Sphinx” and “Still (a cantata—or nada—for Sister Satan)”—contains 52 poems. The title poem begins “The laughter of the Sphinx / caused my eyes to bleed” and haunts us with the ruin we are making of our world, even as Palmer revels in its incredible beauty. Such central tensions in The Laughter of the Sphinx—between beauty and loss, love and death, motion and rest, knowledge and ignorance—glow in Palmer’s lyrical play of light and entirely hypnotize the reader. The stakes, as always with Palmer, are very high, essentially life and death: “Please favor us with a reply / regarding our one-time offer / which will soon expire.”


Laughter of the Sphinx

Laughter of the Sphinx
Author: Albert White Vorse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1900
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN:

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Laughter of the Sphinx

Laughter of the Sphinx
Author: Albert White Vorse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 329
Release: 1900
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN:

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Little Elegies for Sister Satan

Little Elegies for Sister Satan
Author: Michael Palmer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0811230902

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Shaped by the poet’s long view of history, these beautiful lamenting poems take sudden bracing plunges into close-up views of our apocalypse Little Elegies for Sister Satan presents indelibly beautiful new poems by Michael Palmer, “the foremost experimental poet of his generation, and perhaps of the last several generations” (citation for The Academy of American Poets’ Wallace Stevens Award). Grappling with our dark times and our inability to stop destroying the planet or to end our endless wars, Palmer offers a counterlight of wit (poetry was dead again / they said again), as well as the glow of wonder. In polyphonic passages, voices speak from a decentered place, yet are rooted in the whole history of culture that has gone before: “When I think of ‘possible worlds,’ I think not of philosophy, but of elegy. And impossible worlds. Resistant worlds.” In the light of day perhaps all of this will make sense. But have we come this far, come this close to death, just to make sense?


Black Sphinx

Black Sphinx
Author: John C. Welchman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Art, Modern
ISBN: 9783905770964

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Edited and with introduction by John C. Welchman. Text by Jessica Chalmers, Janet Whitmore, Simon Critchley.


Sphinx's Princess

Sphinx's Princess
Author: Esther Friesner
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2010-08-24
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0375856552

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She was far more than just a pretty face. . . . Although Nefertiti is the dutiful daughter of a commoner, her inquisitive mind often gets her into situations that are far from ordinary, like receiving secret lessons from a scribe. And her striking beauty garners attention that she'd just as soon avoid, especially when it's her aunt, the manipulative Queen Tiye, who has set her sights on Nefertiti. The queen wants to use her niece as a pawn in her quest for power, so Nefertiti must leave her beloved family and enter a life filled with courtly intrigue and danger. But her spirit and mind will not rest as she continues to challenge herself and the boundaries of ancient Egyptian society. With control of a kingdom at stake and threats at every turn, Nefertiti is forced to make choices and stand up for her beliefs in ways she never imagined. As she did in Nobody's Princess and Nobody's Prize, author Esther Friesner offers readers a fresh look at an iconic figure, blending historical fiction and mythology in a heady concoction.


The Sphinx and Other Poems

The Sphinx and Other Poems
Author: William Henry Hudson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 70
Release: 1900
Genre:
ISBN:

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The Wings of the Sphinx

The Wings of the Sphinx
Author: Andrea Camilleri
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2009-12-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101159626

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“You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen. Aglow with local color, packed with flint-dry wit, as fresh and clean as Mediterranean seafood — altogether transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.” A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Things are not going well for Inspector Salvo Montalbano. His relationship with Livia is once again on the rocks and—acutely aware of his age—he is beginning to grow weary of the endless violence he encounters. Then a young woman is found dead, her face half shot off and only a tattoo of a sphinx moth giving any hint of her identity. The tattoo links her to three similarly marked girls-all victims of the underworld sex trade-who have been rescued from the Mafia night-club circuit by a prominent Catholic charity. The problem is, Montalbano's inquiries elicit an outcry from the Church and the three other girls are all missing.


Codes Appearing

Codes Appearing
Author: Michael Palmer
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2001
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811214704

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Codes Appearing combines in a single volume three seminal and long unavailable collections by Michael Palmer. This volume rescues from limbo three of his most beautiful poetry volumes: Notes for Echo Lake, First Figure, and Sun (1981, 1984, 1988). Making available a great deal of Palmer's most influential, exciting, and stunning work, Codes Appearing is a landmark volume. The significance of his writing is every day more recognized. "It is impossible," as The Boston Review noted, "to overstate Palmer's importance." "Michael Palmer, '" as Joshua Clover declared in The Village Voice, "is the most influential avant-gardist working, and perhaps the greatest poet of his generation.... And his books, including the essential '80s triptych of Notes for Echo Lake, First Figure, and Sun, are organized not by story but by a dreamland of calculus and sway....[Palmer's] genius is for making the world strange again."