Christian Morgenstern’s dazzling book of linguistic acrobatics, ‘The Gallows Songs’

“Full of verbal horseplay, fabulous animals and a host of inventions that would make the Smithsonian Institution drool in envy.” —The New York Times THE GALLOWS SONGS Christian Morgenstern Translated by Max Knight Introduction by Samuel Titan Christian Morgenstern’s The Gallows Songs are some of the most delightful and imaginative creations of twentieth-century German poetry. Composed originally after an outing Morgenstern took with his friends to Gallows Hill near Potsdam, these lively, puckish poems envision Gallows Hill as a fantastical world populated with marvelous animals, bizarre mechanisms, and some truly unruly punctuation. Morgenstern felt that people often used their familiar language unthinkingly, without ever pausing to marvel at the glorious arbitrariness of words. Through poems chock-full of irresistible wordplay and unabashedly exuberant rhymes, he invites us to meditate—but also to med-it-nine and med-i-ten—on all the incidents and accidents of language that make the world of words so vibrant. True to the spirit of Morgenstern’s linguistic mischief, Max Knight’s translation sparkles with uncommon wit and is itself a feat of poetic genius. This bilingual edition features Morgenstern’s original text and Knight’s English renderings en face. For three days only, The Gallows Songs is available at 25% off. BUY THE BOOK   Read a selection of poems from The Gallows Songs The Knee On earth there roams a lonely knee. It’s just a knee, that’s all. It’s not a tent, it’s not a tree, it’s just a knee, that’s all. In battle, long ago, a man was riddled through and through. The knee alone escaped unhurt as if it were taboo. Since then there roams a lonely knee, it’s just a knee, that’s all. It’s not a tent, it’s not a tree, it’s just a knee, that’s all. The Birth of Philosophy The heath sheep stares at me with frightened awe as though I were the first of men it saw. Contagious glare! We stand as though asleep; it seems the first time that I see a sheep. Fingoor The nightalp chicken chuckles, the windhorn ganders toot; the swarthy swain unbuckles his flute. A he-owl, dove-like, turtles to woo his owlish she; a little Six Nix hurtles along from tree to tree . . . And spooks their spooks are wreaking, and crows are cawing “croak”; and from the ponds are peeking the Fingoor and her folk. You are receiving this message because you signed up for email newsletters from NYRB. You can choose the types of mailings you wish to receive: Update preferences   New York Review Books 207 East 32nd Street New York, NY 10016-6305 Not a subscriber? Sign up for our newsletter here. Unsubscribe

Leonora Carrington’s long-unavailable second novel, ‘The Stone Door’

“[Carrington’s] work with its vibrant dehumanized animals, its mythic universality, and mysterious lucidity remains a marvel. She was and remains forever rad.” —Joy Williams, Book Post THE STONE DOOR Leonora Carrington Introduction by Gabriel Weisz Carrington Afterword by Anna Watz The Stone Door is an omen, an incantation, and an adventure story rolled into one. Built in layers like a puzzle box, it is the tale of two people, of love and the Zodiac and the Kabbalah, of Transylvania and Mesopotamia converging at the Caucasus, of a mad Hungarian King named Böles Kilary and of a woman’s discovery of an initiatory code that leads to a Cyclopean obstacle, to love, self, and awareness, to the great stone door of Kescke and beyond. Written at the end of World War II but not published until 1977 and long unavailable, The Stone Door is at once a celebration of the union of the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington and her husband, the Hungarian-born photographer Chiki Weisz, and an argument for the unification of the male and the female as a means of liberating the human race. “[The Stone Door] may send the surrealists among us into backflips.” —Kirkus Reviews The Stone Door is the September 2025 selection of the NYRB Classics Book Club. BUY THE BOOK   For three days only, The Stone Door is available at 25% off along with four other books by Leonora Carrington: THE HEARING TRUMPET BUY THE BOOK DOWN BELOW BUY THE BOOK THE COMPLETE STORIES OF LEONORA CARRINGTON BUY THE BOOK THE MILK OF DREAMS BUY THE BOOK You are receiving this message because you signed up for email newsletters from NYRB. You can choose the types of mailings you wish to receive: Update preferences   New York Review Books 207 East 32nd Street New York, NY 10016-6305 Not a subscriber? Sign up for our newsletter here. Unsubscribe

Rosaria Munda nos visita ¡y no viene sola!🌟

¡Agenda semanal del 23 al 26 de julio! ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­

¿No puedes ver este email? Míralo en tu navegador Agenda semanal Hay semanas que brillan con luz propia. Semanas en las que todo se concentra: poesía, cine, clubes de lectura y encuentros con autoras internacionales. En Alibri, este julio estamos en plena efervescencia cultural, y esta es una de las semanas más potentes del mes. Te proponemos cuatro actividades y un motivo muy especial para acercarte a la librería: el encuentro con Rosaria Munda, autora de la reconocida saga El reino de los dragones, que visita Barcelona por primera vez. Festival 📅 Miércoles, 23 de julio · 19.00 h · Sala de actos Presentación del V Korean Film Festival BCN Una tarde dedicada al cine surcoreano y al diálogo entre lenguajes culturales. Descubre la programación de la quinta edición de este festival que combina proyecciones, encuentros y pensamiento crítico en torno al cine asiático...  Descubre más → Presentación 📅 Jueves, 24 de julio · 18.30 h · Sala de actos Hablemos de poesía Tres voces, tres sensibilidades y una misma pasión por la palabra. Ven a escuchar a los poetas Mia Khor, Aïda Espasa y Raúl Ligero y participa en una conversación entre creación, emociones y miradas críticas...  Descubre más → Lectura compartida 📅 Viernes, 18 de julio · 19.00 h · Sala de actos  Reading Party: recomendaciones de verano Nuestras libreras comparten lecturas que las han cautivado y que pueden acompañarte este verano. Trae un libro que quieras recomendar o ven a descubrir nuevas propuestas...  Descubre más → Presentación + firma 📅 Sábado, 26 de julio · 18.00 h · Sala de actos  Encuentro con Rosaria Munda   La autora de la saga Fireborne visita Alibri en exclusiva. Una cita imperdible para fans de la fantasía, jóvenes lectores y cualquiera que valore las historias poderosas y el talento literario. El acto incluirá charla y firma de libros...  Descubre más →

Te esperamos para compartir historias y mucha cultura en buena compañía. Y recuerda: en Alibri, cada semana es distinta… y julio aún no ha terminado.    Tus libreras de confianza desde 1925 Darte de baja · Gestionar las preferencias ·  Política de Privacidad © 2024 - BOOKISH VENTURES SL - Todos los derechos reservados