Bilingual EditionHans Magnus Enzensberger is Germany's most important and influential living poet, a lightning rod in a stormy political and cultural landscape. The Sheep Meadow Press is proud to pub
PRAISE FOR SUZANNE GARDINIER"Gardinier is above all a poet whose language and images are completely integrated so that, in Keats's words, every rift is laden with ore."
Here Are 134 poems From The Greek Anthology, a collection of some 4,000 poems assembled by Byzantine scholars. The poems range from the seventh century BC through to the renaissance of Greek culture i
"Amnesiac is a furious metaphorical campaign to seize meaning from human violence and suffering...In this book, as in too much of life, experience and language are irreconcilable, and each is irreconc
The greatest living Romanian poet, Nina Cassian, has written this comment about Carmen Firan's work: translated from the Romanian by Adam Sorkin and others, "Carmen Firan has many voice --almost a cho
Unobtrusively but decisively, Stephanos Papadopoulos' work is informed by various cultures: American, Greek, ancient and modern, French and English as distinguished from American. He follows other po
"Mersal offers an exquisite daughter-to-father poem. Titled "The Clot," this sequence radiates with a combination of tenderness, humor and anguish unmatched in contemporary Arabic poetry."--From the
Bilingual EditionTranslated from the Hebrew by Rachel Tzvia Back"A reasonably discerning reader of Hamutal Bar-Yosef in translation will find that although her poems are written about her life, which
Bilingual EditionTranslated from the French and with an introduction by John Ashbery"After I began translating Pierre Martory, that is, after I began to realize that his marvelous poetry would likely
Roberto Longhi (1890 - 1970) is regarded by Italians as their most important art critic, art historian, and prose stylist of this century, with unsurpassed powers of observation and description. This
In 1944 Ismat Chughtai successfully defended herself before the Imperial Crown Court against a charge of obscenity for her short story "Lihaaf" - "The Quilt." The narrator of this story, a precocious
