In this, Rodrigo Toscano's first full-length collection of poetry, the author explores "how things wouldn’t happen."The Disparities...
This many-voiced, multi-perspective poetic text could be likened to the journal of a scientist recording observable phenomena, but yet resisting to...
Born in Fuentevaqueros, Granada in 1898, Federico García Lorca was one of the great Spanish poets and playwrights of the 20th century. He was...
What is poetry today, and how does it fit into our lives? Through a series of intelligent, personal, and often humorous...
Influenced in part by Jerome Rothenberg's and Pierre Joris's groundbreaking 20th century poetry anthology in two...
Assembled from articles published in French journals, the full version of The Cursed Poets (Les Poètes maudits) was first published in 1888....
First published in 1923 in Paris in an edition of three hundred copies, this satiric novel by the great American poet is "a satire on the novel...
This hilarious play, written by noted Nuyorican playwright and poet Pedro Pietri, takes place in an empty room (or perhaps in a fancy restaurant)....
Recognized today as one of the great works of contemporary American literature, My Life is at once a poetic autobiography, a personal narrative, a...
Linked by some criticts to the Objectivist tradition, particularly to the poet George Oppen, Rae Armantrout began her writing as a poet closely...
With over twenty-six books of poetry, ten novels, four collections of short stories, and various books of theater, film, essays, and children's...
Nelson Ascher (red.), Régis Bonvicino (red.), Michael Palmer (red.)
For the third volume of the ongoing series of PIP anthologies of world poetry, the publisher decided to reissue the...
Shadowtime is a thought opera based on the work and life of the German philosopher, essayist, and cultural critic, Walter Benjamin. The libretto was...
Long dissatisfied with the highly romanic and often obscure translations in English of Rilke's great poem cycle, brother and sister Will and Mary C....
Born in Havana in 1952, Reina Maria Rodriguez developed her poetry in a cultural climate that could be both encouraging and tense. Over the years she...
Gonzalo Rojas was born in Chile in 1917, and his life began with a stroke of lightning as a boy. He was later connected...
An Interview represents the last public appearance and some of the last living statements on his films of the great French film director, Jean...
Written between June 1, 1991 and January 31, 1992 the poems of this volume employed the letters of Henry James as a source in order to explore the...
This fascinating catalog of the comic relates the ironic and ludicrous adventures of a noted (but mysterious) English travel-book writer whose...
Lushington, a serious young man who believes implicity in progress, is posted as special correspondent to an obscure Baltic state. There, in the...
The great British writer's penultimate fiction returns us to the satiric wit of his early novels, Afternoon Men, What's Become of Waring and From a...
This bilingual edition of Metropolis is one of the central works of the noted Italian experimentalist, Antonio Porta. Born in 1935, Porta reveals the...
The last of his books published during Poe’s lifetime, Eureka, A Prose Poem is a strange book indeed, particularly within the context of...
Defoe is an epic where images of battle become meditations, and epic wherein events flap in silence as the narrative moves toward a place where the...
Poet Martha Ronk notes that it is not so much that she finds food displeasurable, but that she finds the sitting at the table unpleasant. Food,...
Day Ocean State of Stars' Night, a collection of eight years of Leslie Scalapino's poetry, represents one of the most...
A woman awakens in a strange room with the sea roaring below. She has no idea where she is, and, even worse, she has no idea who she is. As he slowly...
Horace de Saint-Aubin og Honoré de Balzac
This early Balzac novel, never before translated into English, was written under the pseudonym of Horace de Saint-Aubin. Balzac wrote several of his...
Nobel Prize-winning poet Nelly Sachs escaped Nazi Germany to Sweden, where she wrote these and other brilliant poems as...
Winner in Italy of the prestigious Viareggio Prize, People on the Run (Gente di corsa) is a work that explores, through a presentarion of multiple...
The daughter of an Italian father and an English mother, Rosselli was born in Paris in 1930 and spent her childhood in France. Growing up speaking...
In Ross' seventh book of poetry, he explores the relationships of seemingly unrelated words—of “middle” to “excluded,”...
Born in 1926, Jean-Pierre Rosnay founded the quarterly Vivre en poésie in 1983 and the renowned Club des Poètes in...
In Theoretical Objects American poet Nick Piombino explores—through manifestos, talks, sayings, speeches, and autobiographical-like...
In this new collection, his ninth book of poetry, noted Los Angeles poet Dennis Phillips explores the temporal-an ever-shifting world in which...
Winner of the 2001 Gertrude Stein Award, Letters to Unfinished J., selected by Dennis Phillips, reveals a fresh writing infused with a particularly...
Author winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize for Literature (with fellow Swedish writer Eyvind Johnson), Harry...
Author winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature When they think of the stories of the great German, Nobel prize-winning author Thomas Mann, most...
In this new book of essays, the noted British poet and translator explores a world in which all things are...