THE GREAT WAVE, Slate's follow-up collection to THE INCENTIVEOF THE MAGGOT, is a more personal performance than his much laudedand talked about debut book, which was nominated for the NationalBook Critics Circle Award, the Academy of American Poets LenoreMarshall Prize, and was the winner of the prestigious Larry LevisPoetry Prize. While Slate's first book burst forth from atwenty-year period of silence, THE GREAT WAVE bears the mark of afinely honed fluency and makes good his exceptional promise. WhileSlate occasionally returns to his experience as an internationalbusinessman ("Meeting in Madrid", "Samba de Orfeo", and "Reunion"),his most powerful and moving poems revivify childhood memories('Four Roses") or address the condition of his elderly parents("December First, Terminal"). One of the most haunting and poignantpoems recounts the tragedy of the 1942 Coconut Grove fire in whichSlate's fraternal grandmother died "with her sister in the ladies'room." Of this event, Slate writes, "My life began with
Domesday Book has been described as 'the most valuable pieceof antiquity possessed by any nation.' (David Hume) But a completetranslation has never been available before at an affordable price.Penguin's edition will change that. Compiled in a matter of monthsin 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror, Domesday quicklyestablished itself as document of immense legal importance. It waslast consulted for legal precedent in 1982. It is also the mostremarkable portrait of England in thelate eleventh century. Thepublication of a complete translation of Great and Little Domesdayis already being eagerly anticipated by historians. There areadvance quotes from Norman Davies, Michael Wood, Roy Strong andAntonia Fraser.
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleepswith a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To endthis brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier'sdaughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories of adventure,love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled withprinces and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits,tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba outwitting a band offorty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. Thesequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.
本书是理查·伯顿（Richard Francis Burton）穷30余年之功，从1852年开始，直到1888年才最终完成的《一千零一夜》的注译本。全书共17卷，前10卷为正文，第10卷末附有研究论文，后7卷被伯顿称为“补遗”。全书于1885～1888年间印行完成。
本书是理查·伯顿（Richard Francis Burton）穷30余年之功，从1852年开始，直到1888年才最终完成的《一千零一夜》的注译本。全书共17卷，前10卷为正文，第10卷末附有研究论文，后7卷被伯顿称为“补遗”。全书于1885～1888年间印行完成。
本书是理查·伯顿（Richard Francis Burton）穷30余年之功，从1852年开始，直到1888年才最终完成的《一千零一夜》的注译本。全书共17卷，前10卷为正文，第10卷末附有研究论文，后7卷被伯顿称为“补遗”。全书于1885～1888年间印行完成。
Though generally overlooked during her lifetime, EmilyDickinson's poetry has achieved acclaim due to her experiments inprosody, her tragic vision and the range of her emotional andintellectual explorations.
