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The Ghosts of Birds Nonfiction by Eliot Weinberger The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into “a vortex for the entire universe” (Boston Review).Here, Weinberger chronicles a nineteenth-century journey down the Colorado River, records the dreams of people.
Weinberger’s essays are a kind of survey, demonstrating the lost wealth of literary time. Even if we ourselves don’t become readers of Sanskrit, we become more aware of the immense possibilities.
Weinberger is the great translator of Octavio Paz into English — but it’s the Borges of Selected Non-Fictions, which he also translated, that is the presiding influence in An Elemental Thing. These brief pieces really aren’t essays at all.
Get this from a library! Donkeys, spirits, and imperial ladies: enumeration in Eliot Weinberger's essays. (Michael Duszat).
Eliot Weinberger’s essays are like encyclopaedias in miniature, crammed with curious details that make you wonder at the strangeness of creation, and the ability of humans to make it even stranger. Wildlife is a collection which celebrates birds and fish, dogs and flies, ticks and mole-rats, and those two legendary creatures the tiger and the.
The Iraq war has unleashed such a torrent of opinion.impassioned polemic, neo-con apologia, world-weary cynicism.that it feels like the important truths are being lost in a media feeding-frenzy. Eliot Weinberger eschews the rhetoric of the soapbox in an extraordinary montage of facts, sound-bites and testimonies. He assembles an uncompromising and blackly comic narrative, which permits the.
Karmic Traces: Essays by Eliot Weinberger, 9780811214568, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide.
For the past twenty years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay far beyond the borders of literary criticism or personal journalism and into the realm of poetry and narrative. Full of stories, yet written in a condensed, imagistic language, his essays are works of the imagination where all the facts are verifiable.
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