Written during a five-year period of life-threatening illness, this collection?of 85 poems covers a remarkable range of subjects?but always manages to return to thoughts of friendship and nature.?Begu
The 1990 Trans-Ellesmere Island Ski Expedition was the first human-powered, non-Inuit, lengthwise traverse of one of the largest islands in the High Arctic. From 1992 to 1998, expedition member and s
Noting that most traditional examinations of stress view it as a medical condition, this guide takes an anthropological approach and reveals a less threatening picture of this natural response to dang
Our awareness of the significant challenge our food supply faces in the 21st century is growing rapidly. However, few people offer more than a suggestion that we all grow our own food in our backyard
An aristocrat named Nobile invites several society friends to his house after the opera. But even as the dinner preparations are underway, servants feel compelled to leave. Despite threats of dismissa
Winner in Italy of the highly acclaimed Viareggio Prize, People on the Run (Gente di cora), is a work that explores, through a presentation of multiple voices and character types, the broad makeup of
Recognized as one of the great living poets of Italy, and several times a candidate for the Nobel Prize, Luzi wrote this work in 1994, when he was eighty. In it the poet imagines the last voyage of th
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) was one of the major writers of the 20th century: a poet who turned away from poetry, and a prose writer whose great project remained unfinished at the time of her death
With Peter Altenberg and Hugo von Hofmansthal, Arthur Schnitzler was a major modernist of the period of Viennese intellectual activity from 1890 to 1930. Born in 1862 and trained as a physician, Schni
First published in 1997 by Sun & Moon Press, Noon was chosen by Rae Armantrout as the 2000 winner of the Gertrude Stein Award (formerly known as the New American Poetry Series Awards), an annual c
Winner of the 2002 National Poetry Series, the book in four parts explores a dark world of sleep, dreams, and evil. But there is also joy in Sikelianos's work. Amidst the fears and despair for her ow
Your Paradise tells the story of a leper-colony, where the lepers are outwardly treated with the greatest of kindnesses. Indeed, a new director is attempting to reintegrate the leper community and th
Harry Martinson (1904-1978) was noted for his innovative use of language combined with his keen observations of nature. Views from a Tuft of Grass, written later in his life, in 1963, continues his o
The noted American playwright and novelist Jenkin has created a stunning new fiction in N Judah, the story of a San Francisco woman who, upon hearing of the death in New Orleans of her very special so
The author of Poems and Theoretical Objects, Nick Piombino has become one of our most articulate poet-theorists. Contradicta combines Piombino’s practice of psychiatry with gnomic wisdom, along with 1
