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Title

Oranges & peanuts for sale / Eliot Weinberger.

Author

Weinberger, Eliot.

Publication

New York : New Directions, 2009.

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Description

xii, 254 pages; 23 cm

Summary

One section focuses on writers and literary works: strange tales from classical and modern China; the Psalms in translation: a skeptical look at E. B. White's New York. Another section is a continuation of Weinberger's celebrated political articles collected in What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles (a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Award), including a sequel to "What I Heard About Iraq," which the Guardian called the only antiwar "classic" of the Iraq War. A new installment of his magnificent linked "serial essay," An Elemental Thing, takes us on a journey down the Yangtze River during the Sung Dynasty.

Alternative Title

Oranges and peanuts for sale

Subject

• American essays
• Essais américains
• American essays

Note

• "A New Directions paperbook original (NDP 1148)"--Title page verso.
• A collection of essays.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Oppen Then -- Where Was New York? -- Inventing China -- Vicente Huidobro's Altazor -- Hans Faverey's Against the Forgetting -- Niedecker/Reznikoff -- Gu Cheng -- Kenneth Cox -- The Critic Natkira -- Beckett/Paz -- Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson -- James Laughlin -- Susan Sontag -- Alter and the Psalms -- The T'ang -- Postcard from China -- Oranges & Peanuts For Sale -- Epstein: Exote -- In Blue -- Photography & Anthropology -- Questions of Death -- "Poetry Is News" -- Anonymous Sources -- "The Post-National Writer" -- What I Heard About Iraq in 2005 -- "The Arts and the War in Iraq" -- The United States of Obama -- A Journey on the Yangtze River.

ISBN

• 9780811218344
• 0811218341

LCCN

2009003390

OCLC

• 268791795
• SCSB-12824114

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library