Nothing in Elias' measured life, in his whole career as a teacher of literature, in his marriage to the 'indescribably beautiful' Eva, foreshadowed the events of that apparently ordinary day. He make
Throughout Things and Flesh, there is a wonderful sense of song, a kind of ringing up and down the scales of being. Here, Linda Gregg engages with the searches and findings of both the intellect and t
An innovative and engaging nonfiction debut by “an original new voice” (Publishers Weekly) and the winner of the 2006 Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeIn this sparkling nonfiction deb
My Christina & Other StoriesYears after her death, Merce Rodoreda's work is enjoying a well-deserved renaissance. The seventeen stories that comprise this volume vary tremendously in tone and styl
The Outermost Dream brings together essays and reviews by William Maxwell, one of America's foremost writers and editors. Maxwell chose deliberately to focus on biography, memoir, diaries, and corresp
William Kittredge’s relationship to the spare, often unforgiving Western landscape is fraught with contradictions. Having grown up on a cattle ranch in Oregon, he has an intimate connection to
A rising star in the United Kingdom, contemporary Scottish poet Paterson is poised to become a major voice of our time. The London Review of Books calls him "one of the most talented Scottish writers
A career-spanning collection by one of greece’s most loved and lyrical contemporary poets, Katerina Anghelaki-RookeI wasn’t weaving, I wasn’t knitting I was writing something
The first publication in the United States of celebrated contemporary Israeli poet Agi Mishol, winner of the Yehuda Amichai Poetry PrizeYou are only twenty and your first pregnancy is an exploding bo
In Dean Young’s sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness guide the poet, the
Kate Braverman grew up in Los Angeles in the late 1950s at the time when glitz was just beginning to be manufactured. Her Los Angeles was made up of stucco tenements, welfare, and the marginalized. I
One has to look no further than the audiences hungry for the narratives served up byDownton Abbey or Wolf Hall to know that the lure of the past is as seductive as ever. But incorporating historical e
The Award-winning poet Carl Phillips grapples with issues of authority, identity, and beauty in these sensual and deeply intelligent essaysThe "coin of the realm" is, classically, the currency that f
Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the s
David Rivard's new poetry collection describes the many powers---psychological and historical---that flow through people's lives in acts of faith, greed, pleasure, celebrity, gossip, and consolation.
In surprising turns through different American cities, mindsets, and eras, and through the strange rhythms of dreaming, the celebrated poet Elizabeth Alexander composes her own kind of improvisationa
"A brilliantly inventive writer ... he understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildy funny." --A.S. ByattObabakoak is a shimmering, mercurial collection about life i
Tug, a thoroughly contemporary first collection, astonishes with its scope and vitality. Ranging in tone from formal to informal, and in mood from longing to celebration, Patterson deftly articulates
A landmark anthology envisioned by Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United StatesAmerican Journal presents fifty contemporary poems that explore and celebrate our country and our lives. Poet Laure
An essential collection of essays by important contemporary poets about the forms and rhetorical strategies of lyric poetryWe are delighted when we recognize patterns and continuities, as we are deli
Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for LiteratureFarah's landmark Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy is comprised by the novels Sweet and Sour Milk, Sardines, and Clos
Winner of the 2009 Bakeless Fiction Prize, a confident debut collection about life on and around the Mattaponi Indian Reservation Set on the Mattaponi Indian Reservation and in its surrounding counti
With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawre
“Castle tells a terrific story, dire and confusing and convincing.” —Scott Bradfield, The New York Times Book ReviewEric Loesch, a private man with a shadowy past, returns to his ho
A brilliant and exhilarating sequence of aphorisms from one of our greatest essayistsThere will come a time when people decide you’ve had enough of your grief, and they’ll try to take it away from you
An unsentimental vision of the west, new and old, comes to life in a gritty new collection of stories by the author of Snow, AshesIn Ghosts of Wyoming, Alyson Hagy explores the hardscrabble lives and
New poetry by Dobby Gibson, author of Polar, which ?teems with a language so alive and so imaginative that one cannot help but read on with wonder and rapture? (The Bloomsbury Review)We have to escap
In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. "Memoir is, for better and often for worse, the genre of our times," Birke
The Wedding Jester offers a new chance to journey to Stern's magical Jewish otherworld - where fantastical events are commonplace, and rabbis - sometimes frequently - take flight.
With a poet's precision and an intellectually adventurous spirit, Elizabeth Alexander explores a wide spectrum of contemporary African American artistic life through literature, paintings, popular me
The eagerly anticipated second collection by poet and esteemed critic Stephen Burt Flaunting your useless knowledge has failed you again,Though it was all they had taught you.
In this groundbreaking memoir, Stephen Elliott pursues parallel investigations: a gripping account of a notorious San Francisco murder trial, and an electric exploration of the self. Destined to be a
"It is impossible to read Tess Gallagher's poems without being drawn into their mesmerizing rhythms and convinced of the rightness of her intense yet unforced images." --Joyce Carol Oates
A finely crafted debut, winner of the 2009 Bakeless Nonfiction PrizeKim Dana Kupperman’s essays plumb the emotional and spiritual depths of a transitory life. Her episodic “missives”
The powerful and influential last poems of an unsung master, now again available, with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Mark DotyJames L. White’s The Salt Ecstasies—originally publishe
A sensitive and nuanced exploration of a seldom-discussed subject by an acclaimed novelistThe fourteenth volume in the Art of series conjures an ethereal subject: the idea of mystery in fiction. Myst
Brian Culhane’s deeply felt and accomplished debut, winner of the poetry foundation’s Emily Dickinson First Book AwardLet just one of those quicksilver hours be returned to me, With
