University of Chicago Press: New Titles from 'Sylph Editions'

Diplomat, Actor, Translator, Spy

Bernard Turle; Dan Gunn — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Shades of the Other Shore

Jeffrey Greene; Ralph Petty — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Sunflowers / Meditations

Peter Coker; Carrie Etter — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

The "Nobile Folios", published in association with Piano Nobile, a London art gallery, are gorgeous multidisciplinary explorations of twentieth- and twenty-first-century artworks. Each folio explores a single work, attempting to replicate the experience of seeing it with one's own eyes. New titles this year explore "Sunflowers" 1958/9, a painting by Peter Coker, with ten color images of the work supplemented by an essay by art critic Andrew Lambirth and poetic contemplations by Carrie Etter.

Her Not All Her

Elfriede Jelinek; Damion Searls — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Her Not All Her is a play about, from, and to the great Swiss writer Robert Walser, by the great Austrian writer and Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. It highlights what Jelinek calls ‘the fundamental fragmentation’ of Walser’s voice, revealing Walser as ‘one of those people who, when they said “I”, did not mean themselves’. Presented here in a prize-winning translation by Damion Searls, it shows Jelinek to be an impassioned virtuoso reader of classic European writers. The cahier contains an essay by the Director of the Robert Walser Centre, Reto Sorg, and thirteen paintings by the British artist Thomas Newbolt.