This is Douglas Messerli's eighth volume of readings, events, and memories.The connecting skein of Messerli's 2001 cultural memoir is a concept of hiding history, of somehow keeping the past secret. E
This is a re-publication of the famed artwork, 100 Boots, which consisted of postcards showing the adventures of the books as they traveled across the United States.
This is the seventh volume of Douglas Messerli's ongoing cultural memoirs.Swinging forward once more, Messerli discusses a society, "In the Gap," a cold war term that defines the position of a spy try
The Chinese poet Xue Di came to the United States immediately after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 in Beijing, becoming writer-in-residence at Brown University and a Fellow in Brown's Freedom t
This is Douglas Messerli's sixth volume collection of readings, events, and memories.In his sixth swing back and forth from the turn of the twenty-first century to the present, Messerli considers the
Douglas Messerli continues his annual memoirs in this 2007 volume.In this, the fifth volume of Messerli's annual cultural memoir of "Readings," "Events," and "Memories," the author explores a world th
Ece Ayhan takes the reader through the dark streets of the Galata district of Istanbul in these gay-inspired poems. Like a modern-day Rimbaud, Ayhan explores linguistically and thematically what Turki
The Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, born Else Hildegard Ploetz, worked first as a model, posing for artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and others. She also produced her own Dadaist art, u
Richard Dove's brilliant translations present a large selection of the great German poet Reiner Kunze's writing from all periods of his life. Born in 1933, Kunze, the son of a miner, lived for years i
One of the last works by the great Swiss-French writer Blaise Cendrars, Films sans images is composed of three historical radio plays, written in collaboration with Nino Frank. Gilles de Rais, Sarejev
First published in 1927, this brilliant satire of the Soviet system presents three comic characters, Nikolai Kavalerov and the Babichev brothers, bumbling their way through the bureaucracy. Translated
Like Jean Frémon's 1994 novel Island of the Dead (winner of the PEN Translation Prize), Frémon's earlier Le jardin botanique (The Botanical Garden) is a rich, philosophical work filled with
Translated from the Korean by Brother Anthony of Taiz6 and Lee Sang-Wha, with a Preface by Ko UnIn 1997, Korean poet Ko Un and a few companions spent forty days of rough traveling through Tibet, despi
Julien Gracq's short fiction. The Peninsula is a deceptively simple work with regard to plot. Simon is at the Brevenay train station in Brittany waiting for his lover, Irmgard, although she has warned
Begun in the late 1990's, Dark, Douglas Messerli's 11th book of poetry, represents the often cloudy and frightening days of the new millennium, a world of political, social, and cultural upheaval. Des
Nobel Prize-winning poet Nelly Sachs escaped Nazi Germany to Sweden, where she wrote these and other brilliant poems as a “mute outcry” to the Holocaust.
This novel, by the author of the renowned Charlie P, takes the form of an inquiry into the suicideor murder?of a young boy and girl in the penthouse of a writer named Richard Kalich. Is K
The Dutch poet and painter Lucebert (pseudonym for Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk) was born in Amsterdam in 1924, the city where he was to live for nearly thirty years. After a bohemian period in his twe
The Sorrow Gondola was the great Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer's first collection of poems after his stroke in 1990. Translated by Michael McGriff, Transtromer's great work is available in its first
In this long awaited full survey of the poetic writing of Korea's leading literary spokesperson, the translators have gathered poems from 42 years, representing numerous of the author's 135 books. As
One of the most important poets of the Italian neo-avantgardes, Adriano Spatola and his poetic oeuvre has remained in only small and often out of print editions both in Italy and in English language t
Gonzalo Rojas was born in Chile in 1917, and his life began with a stroke of lightning as a boy. He was later connected with a surrealist group and became one of the most noted poets of his country. T
The Mauritian writer Malcolm de Chazal's great masterwork, Sens-Plastique, was published in France in 1948, with a preface by Jean Paulhan, a year after its publication in Mauritius. Since that time,
As part of its ongoing Villa Aurora series, Green Integer presents the second collection of poetry (after the first, Tousled Beauty) by the major young German poet, Dieter M. Graf. This volume explore
Married to the feminist Naganuma Chieko, Takamura Kotaro modeled their relationship on sexual equality. In 1931 Chieko began to show signs of schizophrenia, which led to attempted suicide. In 1935 Tak
The great philosopher George Berkeley centered his Three Dialogues upon an imaginary discussion on the subject of materialism. Over the period of three successive mornings, Hylas (a "materialist") and
Paul Eluard was one of the most important of the early surrealists. Born in Paris in 1895, Eluard first became involved with the Dada movement, and after the war, disgusted by the commonly accepted la
Noted poet and translator Paul Vangelisti reflects upon urban living, love, and friendships in the context of the transience of life in this new collection, his twenty-third to date. Vangelisti recent
Translated from the German by Pierre Joris—winner of the 2004 PEN Translation Award for Celan’s Lightduress—the is the first of Celan’s three major books of poetry before his death by suicide. Conside
Is he a madman or the best butler you've ever had? Cadiot's zany first novel takes the British weekend house party paradigm and keeps shifting its terms. At this book's center is the enigmatic "I" - a
The Last Living Words consists of works of poetry and fiction published during the life of the great Austrian writer. Brilliantly translated by Lilian Friedberg (winner of the Kayden Translation Award) presents a new perspective on this important, internationally renowned figure. Friedberg’s Bachmann is no longer the frail and tortured writer presented in so many previous translations, but she stands as a woman and writer.
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
In this important new collection, publisher Douglas Messerli has collected 80 lyrics of American folksongs and popular music from the 19th century. Some of these songs, particularly the African-Americ
In Charlie P author Richard Kalich offers us a singularly unique, comic and outlandish Everyman. A looney-tune figure of the American manchild - the kind of eternally adolescent men one sees on any Am
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
Born in 1933 in a small rural village in Korea's North Cholla Province, Ko Un grew up in a Japanese-controlled land that was soon to experience the horrors of the Korean War. He became a Buddhist mon
