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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
The Chinese poet Xue Di came to the United States immediately after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 in Beijing, becoming writer-in-residence at Brown University and a Fellow in Brown's Freedom t
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Regarded by many as Hungary’s greatest twentieth-century poet, Atilla Joszef was born in 1905 in Budapest and published numerous collections throughout his life. He died, of suicide, under the wheels
Is he a madman or the best butler you've ever had? Cadiot's zany first novel takes the British weekend house party paradigm and keeps shifting its terms. At this book's center is the enigmatic "I" - a
This 296-page volume was originally published as a small 86-page collection by New Directions. Now the great Dutch “Fiftiers” movement is completely representedby poetry, biographies, and bibliographi
In his first novel since Swanny's Ways, Steve Katz takes another look at the failure of Humanism in the West, through the lens of the great Sicilian master, Antonello da Messina. A father and son, who
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
Tousled Beauty is a selection of the young German poet Dieter M. Graf's work, emphasizing poetry, often broken and "scruffy," from before the 21st century. Many of the poems were written on the road i
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) was one of the major writers of the 20th century: a poet who turned away from poetry, and a prose writer whose great project remained unfinished at the time of her death
Begun as an exercise in which Messerli embedded the first word or two from lines of poetry by other poets, First Words gradually transformed into a personal document of despair and hope in the years 1
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
This "novel in verse" tells of an Old World man’s tribulations in the New World and revives as well a tradition somewhat lost from sight of a novel in verse, seen by the author as an "antidepressant"
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
