The most famous of Henri Michaux's poetry collections, now in a new translation from the French.The strange bumbling figure of Plume, a poetic personage pretty much like no other, preoccupied the gre
Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855), a contemporary of Poe, De Quincey, Gogol and Heine, introduced into French literature a mode of writing rooted in German romanticism yet already recognizably modernist in
The first major literary presentation of Nostradamus's Prophecies, newly translated and edited by prizewinning scholars The mysterious quatrains of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostra
A bilingual collection of poetry from pioneering scholar in Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism, Gershom Scholem.With this volume, Scholem's work reaches beyond the confines of the academy and enters a lite
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Autobiography. Translated from the French by Richard Sieburth, with a foreword by Maurice Blanchot. Hailed as an "important literary document and contemporary pleasure" by
Louise Labe is commonly regarded as the most original woman poet of the French Renaissance. The daughter of an illiterate rope maker in Lyon, known to her contemporaries for her unusual learning as we
Emblems of Desire is a representative selection of lyrics drawn from the 449 dizains that make up Maurice Sceve's book-length cycle of poems known as the Delie, first published in 1544. Often conside
Stroke by Stroke is a pairing of two of Henri Michaux's most suggestive texts, Stroke by Stroke (Par des traits, 1984) and Grasp (Saisir, 1979), written towards the end of his life. Michaux's ideogram
These ideas first saw print in 1910, when they served as a series of lectures in London. Pound was then just 25, freshly fired from his first and only academic post, and already had four volumes of po
This volume is the most comprehensive collection of Pound's poetry (excepting his long poem The Cantos) and translations ever assembled. The Chinese verse translations are supplemented by Pound's ver
Rummaging through his papers in 1958, Ezra Pound came across a cache of notebooks dating back to the summer of 1912, when as a young man he had walked the troubadour landscape of southern France. Pou
Despite his influence on such figures as Nietzsche, Rilke, Heidegger, and Celan, Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) is only now being fully appreciated as perhaps the first great modern of European poetr
'One of the undisputed masterpieces of early nineteenth-century French prose fiction.'From Richard Sieburth's preface to AdolphePublished simultaneously in London and Paris in 1816, Adolphe is the sto
Originally published as a serial work in the 1850s, The Salt Smugglers is a biting and hilarious satire of the politics and censorship of literature; it is an unearthed pre-postmodern classic. By wri
In time for the end of the world: the first major literary presentation of Nostradamus's Prophecies, newly translated and edited by prizewinning scholarsThe mysterious quatrains of the sixteenth-centu
At his death at the age of 24 in 1837, Georg Buchner also left behind Leonce and Lena, Woyzeck, and Danton's Death - bold, psychologically and politically acute plays that were also well ahead of the
Poems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of
This newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Ezra Pound’s Selected Poems is intended to articulate Pound for the twenty-first century. Gone are manyof the “stale creampuffs” (
Poems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of
An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilárd Borbély remains one of the most celebrated writers to emerge
An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilárd Borbély remains one of the most celebrated writers to emerge
Contains translated prose pieces by one of the most influential figures in 19th-century France on such topics as life, fashion, language, aesthetics, and the performing arts.
