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The fifteen pieces collected here range from the history of the Salman Rushdie affair to the dream of Atlantis, from the turf wars among ethnographic filmmakers to the unlikely romance between poetry and espionage, from the pilgrims in Plymouth to the students in Tiananmen Square.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbove all, Weinberger's concern is poetry—whether written in medieval Baghdad or by Mexicans in Japan—and the perennially underground yet global network through which it travels. 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Weinberger ponders such strange conjunctions as Whittaker Chambers and Objectivism, anti-Semitism among American Modernists, and bourgeois poets—present-day wards of the academy and the state—confronting the issues of peace, American foreign policy, and The Bomb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471972778220,"sku":"9780811210010","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3c31a7480a80004e5c87016ef66466af.jpg?v=1775692377"},{"product_id":"an-elemental-thing-by-eliot-weinberger-9780811216944","title":"An Elemental Thing","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith \u003cem\u003eAn Elemental Thing\u003c\/em\u003e, Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us through histories, fables, and meditations about the ten thousand things in the universe: the wind and the rhinoceros, Catholic saints and people named Chang, the Mandaeans on the Iran-Iraq border and the Kaluli in the mountains of New Guinea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the thirty-five essays included are a poetic biography of the prophet Muhammad, which was praised by the \u003cem\u003eLondon Times\u003c\/em\u003e for its \"great beauty and grace,\" and \"The Stars,\" a reverie on what's up there that has already been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, and Maori.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47485806969068,"sku":"9780811216944","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780811216944-an-elemental-thing.jpg?v=1775715803"},{"product_id":"the-ghosts-of-birds-by-eliot-weinberger-9780811226189","title":"The Ghosts of Birds","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ghosts of Birds\u003c\/em\u003e offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, \u003cem\u003eAn Elemental Thing\u003c\/em\u003e, which pulls the reader into \"a vortex for the entire universe\" (\u003cem\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/em\u003e). 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