Two days before the 1913 premiere of this Futurist play in verse, the original cast withdrew because rumors started to spread across Saint Petersburg that they would be pelted with garbage and beaten
Stay—Douglas Messerli’s 12th book of poetry, and his first since his 2012 publication of Dark—represents work the poet, dramatist, and prose writer has written from the millennium until the present, a
My Year is the title of Douglas Messerli's ongoing cultural memoirs, which began in 2000 with the turn of the 21st century. This volume covers cultural events from 2011, including essays on film, lite
Posing the question of reciprocity between all things, South Korean Lee Seong-bok’s poetry peels back the fragile layers of this world, and echoes the unheard voices of ?mouthless things.” Lee earned
Ern Malley was the fictitious poet of Australia's most famous literary hoax. He and his entire body of work were created in one day in 1943 by soldiers James McAuley and Harold Stewart in their attemp
The Life of Jesus is neither a historical fiction nor a devout retelling of the mission and passion of Christ. Rather, it is an unabashed and intimately revealing autobiographical fiction told primari
The great German Expressionist poet and playwright August Stramm (1874?1915) wrote only two books of poetry before his death in World War I. These proto-Dadaist poems represent his finest works. "Nigh
The major Dutch poet of the twentieth century, Lucebert was avant-garde yet lyrical. This second volume, in Green Integer's publication of his complete poems, represents his four collections from 1952
The tenth volume in Douglas Messerli's ongoing cultural memoirs beginning in 2000, Shadows explores issues of potential danger and despair in 2010, with essays and photographs of numerous books, plays
In My Year 2009: Facing the Heat, the 8th volume to appear in Douglas Messerli’s on-going cultural memoirs, the author expresses that he suspected, what with the beginning of Barack Obama’s presidency
Author of numerous books of poetry in South Korea, Kim Soo-Bok is a major poet in his country. He has received the Pyeonun Award and the Award for Lyric Poetry. He is at present a professor in the Cre
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
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
Written by the great Austrian novelist in 1924, Three Women?consisting of three long stories, "Grigia," "The Portuguese Lady," and "Tonka"?was written just a few years prior to Robert Musil's twentiet
Born in Gurye, South Korea, in 1949, Lee Si-young began publishing poetry in 1969, and has now published numerous volumes, from which Patterns selects. Winner of several major awards, Lee won the Repu
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 eighth volume of Douglas Messerli’s encyclopedic anthologies of international poetry includes twenty-one poets of renown, including Adonis, Ilse Aichinger, Dino Campana, C.P. Cavafy, Julio Cortaza
Eleanor Antin's coming-of-age memoir is a smart, no-holds-barred black comedy in the picaresque coming-of-age tradition of Holden Caulfield, Huck Finn, and the irrepressible Dorothy on the road to Oz.
As in his volumes from 2004, 2005, and 2006, Douglas Messerli brings together pieces on art, dance, music, film, literature, and popular culture to reveal the tempo of world culture in each year since
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
Encompassing two hundred international movies, Douglas Messerli's Reading Films is a highly personal but profound discussion of some of the most important cinematic achievements from the earliest of f
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
A collection of nine stories, Nine, Novena represents the turning point in Osman Lins' noted career, as he tells tales that concern the entrapment and search for the self and the mythic aspects of exi
Like many of his previous books, all of which have received considerable attention by readers and critics, Joe Ross takes his readers on a voyage through meaning, and in this work it is a jargon-spout
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
Ezra Pound's poems "A Girl" and "In a Station of the Metro"; William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow"; Gary Snyder's "By Frazier Creek Falls"; Marianne Moore's "O To Be a Dragon"; Wallace Steven
R. Ceuppens was born in 1923 near Antwerp. Under the pseudonym of No Michiels, he rose during the postwar years as one of the most talented of a group of Flemish writers, Dutch language authors writin
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 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
“A modern space-time novel of interconnected myths and stories.”—Ed SandersHow to describe The Hermaphrodite? It is prose and poetry, picture and frame, a collage of satire and slapstick, allegory and
In the tradition of Henri Michaux’s Plume and Julio Cortazar’s Lucas, British author Christopher Middleton presents hilarious anecdotes of the great economist Blaff, a bold, bluffing, blunderbuss char
