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
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
The author of Poems and Theoretical Objects, Nick Piombino has become one of our most articulate poet-theorists. Contradicta combines Piombino’s practice of psychiatry with gnomic wisdom, along with 1
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
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
Jean Grenier (1898-1971) was a French philosopher and writer who combined a rigorous philosophical intelligence with an artistic and literary sensibility. Among his many works are the essays, art cri
Your Paradise tells the story of a leper-colony, where the lepers are outwardly treated with the greatest of kindnesses. Indeed, a new director is attempting to reintegrate the leper community and th
The last volume of poems connected with what Paul Celan described as "die Wende" ("the turn"), Lightduress was written between June and December in 1967, and appeared approximately three months after
The middle-aged narrator of The Last Joy is a Hamsun double, who leaves the wild, where he has lived in a turf hut, for a tourist resort and, subsequently, the city, where he resumes contact with Mis
With Peter Altenberg and Hugo von Hofmansthal, Arthur Schnitzler was a major modernist of the period of Viennese intellectual activity from 1890 to 1930. Born in 1862 and trained as a physician, Schni
Long underground classics, The Doll and The Doll at Play (the second with poetry by French poet Paul eluard) are two of the strangest visual and poetic texts of modern art. Presenting German artist Ha
Long dissatisfied with the highly romatical and often obscure translations in English of Rilke's great poem cycle, brother and sister Willam and Mary Crichton determined to work toward a translation t
Related to and sometimes paired with Hamsun's Under the Autumn Stars, this beautifully lyric fiction picks up with the same characters as the other book, but is set in time six years later. The centra
The Critic As Artist is one of Oscar Wilde's most well-known dialogues and, along with "The Decay of Lying," his best expression of his aesthetics.This major work is particularly interesting in the c
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
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
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
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
Born in Brazil, novelist Doma-cio Coutinho immigrated to the United States in 1959. His first novel, Duke, the Dog Priest,comically explores Nova Eboracense, Brazilian New York, with its dazzling mix
Nikos Engonopoulos is surely one of the most curious figures in twentieth-century poetry. An ambidextrous painter-poet and early convert to surrealism, Engonopoulos joined forces with Andreas Embiriko
With an introduction by Janice Mathie-Heck, this brilliant collection of bilingual poetry represents the major work of the most noted Kosovo’s poets, work that celebrates life in a world where war has
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,
Recognized internationally as one of the most original poets writing today, Leslie Scalapino has developed a devoted following. This massive collection explores her continued fascination with time and
Progress/Under Erasure re-presents in a new edition two innovative long poems by one of the best-known poets and critics associated with "Language" writing. Upon its original publication in 1985, Prog
Assembled from articles published in French journals, the full version of The Cursed Poets (Les Poetes maudits) was published in 1888. Rimbaud, the boy with whom Verlaine has had his infamous affair,
Gerard de Nerval's greatest subject was himself. Throughout his tempestuous life that ended with suicide by hanging, this French Romantic poet journeyed to distant parts of the globe in order to compr
When Stein wrote this alphabet book, originally meant for children, she planned an orderly progression through the alphabet with four names for each letter. But things quickly developed, somewhat spi
A few months before his death in February 1996, the great American poet, Larry Eigner, contracted with Green Integer to publish a new work of poetry. Edited by Eigner's long-time friend, poet Robert G
Celine's fascination with the ballet spans his literary career: three of the pieces in this volume were written around the same time that he published his great novel, Voyage au bout de la nuit, whic
"I am always conscious of the disquieting runs of life slipping by," writes Lyn Hejinian in the Preface to this major early work of poetry. "Necessity is the limit with forgetfulness, but it remains
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
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
62 new poems, written between 2000 and 2015 by the noted Brazilian poet, Regis Bonvicino, continuing his output--in both Portuguese and English--from the previous Green Integer selection, Sky-Eclipse
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
