Nezval was one of the founders of the avant-garde group Dev_tsil (Nine Powers) which revolutionized Czech literature in the 1920s. Nezval's second volume of poetry, The Marvelous Magician, spoke for t
Born in Havana in 1952, Reina Maria Rodriguez developed her poetry in a cultural climate that could be both encouraging and tense. Over the years she struggled to establish a questioning, experimental
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
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
One of the most noted of American fiction writers, Gilbert Sorrentino is also a brilliant poet, and has authored some nine books of poetry, including the renowned The Orangery, first published in 1978
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
Recognized as one of the great living poets of Italy, and several times a candidate for the Nobel Prize, Luzi wrote this work in 1994, when he was eighty. In it the poet imagines the last voyage of th
Winner of the 2002 National Poetry Series, the book in four parts explores a dark world of sleep, dreams, and evil. But there is also joy in Sikelianos's work. Amidst the fears and despair for her ow
Here together in one volume is the strange and evocative "Pompeiian Fancy" by German author Wilhelm Jensen and one of the major texts of psychoanalysis in Sigmund Freud's oeuvre, discussing the role
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
In this important new collection, publisher Douglas Messerli has collected 80 lyrics of American folksongs and popular music from the 19th century. Some of these songs, particularly the African-Americ
“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
Three plays, To Have Been, Stadelmann, and Voices, by the renowned Italian novelist and playwright Claudio Magris. Magris has been nominated for the Nobel Prize and has won the Erasmus Award and the L
In this book of 24 stories, or "person mythologies," Greek novelist and poet Andreas Embiricos combines history, myth, poetry, and psychology to create a sensual, original and fabulous universe. His c
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
Told in the first person and set against the backdrop of contemporary America, the book captures the intertwining lives of an unforgettable group of men and women, each displaced by old loves and mod
What is poetry today, and how does it fit into our lives? Through a series of intelligent, personal, and often humorous essays, the great French poet and fiction writer explores the role of poetry in
The daughter of an Italian father and an English mother, Rosselli was born in Paris in 1930 and spent her childhood in France. Growing up speaking French, English, and Italian, she was, from her chil
One of the most important poets of the Italian neo-avantgardes, Adriano Spatola and his poetic oeuvre has remained in only small and often out of print editions both in Italy and in English language t
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
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
Although best known for her fiction, short stories, and interviews, gifted author Djuna Barnes also published numerous plays in her lifetime. This play, from 1923–1924, and never before published, is
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
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 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
Calling on other art forms, present and past-the music of 20th century composer Messiaen, the paintings of Bergognone - Rebecca Goodman's first novel, The Surface of Motion, explores art and time, ti
Noted poet and translator Paul Vangelisti reflects upon urban living, love, and friendships in the context of the transience of life in this new collection, his twenty-third to date. Vangelisti recent
A married couple, Fridolin and Albertina, are troubled by events and jealous of each other's attentions the night before at a masquerade ball. Suddenly, Fridolin, a doctor, is summoned to the bedside
From the very first line Michaux warns the reader (and himself as a reader) to prepare for combat, a bodiless, abstract combat learned by daydreaming. He hectors, cajoles, encourages, and entertains u
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
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
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
First published in 1909, the great American version of Flaubert's Trois Contes recounts the lives of three plain and humble women, two working as household servants and the third, a Black woman, invol
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
In this, the third volume of his ongoing cultural memoir, Douglas Messerli explores figures and issues of 2006—the films of Robert Altman and Jean Renoir; The Queen; the writing of Guest, Hauser, Sorr
Written and published in 1843, the year after Dickens had traveled through the United States, A Christmas Carol has proved to be one of Dickens' most popular and well read works. Although Dickens wrot
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
Quinn, a mystery writer, becomes involved in a puzzling case; Blue is hired by White to spy on Black; and Fanshawe, a gifted novelist, disappears, leaving his family and work behind, in an omnibus edi
Well known throughout the world for his great late 19th and early 20th century plays, Uncle Vanya, The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov also wrote numerous short plays. In t
