Monday, July 16, 2012

The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems

Billy Collins
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Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.

Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and irony, “Poetry speaks to all people, it is said, but here I would like to address / only those in my own time zone”–but also with quiet observation, intense wonder, and a reverence for the everyday: “The birds are in their trees, / the toast is in the toaster, / and the poets are at their windows. / They are at their windows in every section of the tangerine of earth–the Chinese poets looking up at the moon, / the American poets gazing out / at the pink and blue ribbons of sunrise.”

Through simple language, Collins shows that good poetry doesn’t have to be obscure or incomprehensible, qualities that are perhaps the real trouble with most “serious” poetry: “By now, it should go without saying / that what the oven is to the baker / and the berry-stained blouse to the drycleaner / so the window is to the poet.”

In this dazzling new collection, his first in three years, Collins explores boyhood, jazz, love, the passage of time, and, of course, writing–themes familiar to Collins’s fans but made new here. Gorgeous, funny, and deeply empathetic, Billy Collins’s poetry is a window through which we see our lives as if for the first time.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

一首詩的故事: 100篇中國詩詞的動人故事

王盈雅 編著
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隱藏一段段真實故事的絕妙語言
訴說一縷縷鄉愁與相思的最佳獻禮
在詩.詞.歌.賦的轉角
覓得友情、親情、愛情、忠誠的蹤跡


你知道嗎?

所有被創造的偉大文學作品背後,都有一段鮮為人知、隱沒於荏苒韶光的真實故事。

從先秦時代到晚近清朝,傳頌下來那精采動人的詩詞故事,讓你低詠讚嘆詩詞意境的優美時 還能一探詩人的親身經歷,與隱含在其中那時間流沙輕瀉下仍清晰可聞的真摯情誼。

大時代的變動與悲嘆,不論是詩人的情感糾葛,或是對外物的執著衝突,都可以在本書嚴選的這100篇故事與詩詞中,淺酌低吟、回味再三。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)


Monday, July 9, 2012

Bach, Beethoven and the Boys: Music History As It Ought to Be Taught

David W. Barber
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David W. Barber has delighted readers around the world with Accidentals on Purpose, When the Fat Lady Sings and other internationally bestselling books of musical humor. His bestselling Bach, Beethoven and the Boys chronicles the lives of the great (and not-so-great) composers as you’ve never read them before — exploring their sex lives, exposing their foibles and expanding on our understanding of these all-too-human creatures. Filled with information, interesting facts and trivia, this hilarious history covers music from Gregorian chant to the mess we’re in now. From Bach’s laundry lists to Beethoven’s bowel problems, from Gesualdo’s kinky fetishes to Cage’s mushroom madness, Barber tells tales out of school that ought to be put back there. (Think how much more fun it would be if they taught this stuff.)

As always, Dave Donald had provided witty and clever cartoon illustrations to accompany the text.
(Excerpt from amazon.co.uk)


我的音樂往事

李歐梵 著
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作為一個音樂世家之子,李歐梵選擇了文學作終生職業;而作為一位享有國際聲譽的文學教授,他又偏偏將自己的靈魂安頓在古典音樂的海洋裡。在這本書中,我們看到的不是作為哈佛名教授的李歐梵,而是一個充滿真情摯意,醉臥音樂之鄉的“樂迷”。靜聆內心深處的旋律,追憶音符飄揚的人生歲月,與最偉大的音樂家們進行靈魂對話,將所熱愛的音樂與對音樂的熱愛鐫刻在人生邊上。在這本書中,你不僅可以欣賞到美妙的音樂和音樂故事,還可以感受到一種天籟般動人的靈魂的回音。

 
(摘錄自dangdang.com)



Monday, July 2, 2012

Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image

Edited by Kam Louie
online access from ProQuest Ebook Central
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This book contains thirteen essays on post-1997 Hong Kong culture by some of the world's best authorities on this topic today. The majority of the essays are on literature and film. As well as these two genres, some essays also explore new types of texts such as protest art.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)


香江法政縱橫: 香港基本法學緒論

朱國斌
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香港作為中國獨特架構的一個行政區劃,是廣義中國法律之下的一個獨特法域,也是中西文化交匯後自成體系的文化場域。作者就香港回歸以來,其撰寫的公開發表的法律和政論性文章集結成冊,文章多發表在《法學研究》、《法學家》、《中外法學》、《明報》、《信報》、《大公報》、《東方日報》、《蘋果日報》、《香港經濟日報》、《信報財經月刊》、《紫荊月刊》等。儘管若干內容因時過境遷只有記錄歷史的意義,但大部分還是有現實意義並提出了一定的學術觀點。

(摘錄自dangdang.com)



本書內容針對香港基本法圍繞以下時政性論題展開:“一國兩法”、“人大釋法”制度及其論爭、“二十三條”立法論爭、“二五之爭”及其法理、京港關系與政治。

(摘錄自Apabi.com)