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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, born Else Hildegard Ploetz, worked first as a model, posing for artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and others. She also produced her own Dadaist art, u
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
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
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
Nobel Prize-winning poet Nelly Sachs escaped Nazi Germany to Sweden, where she wrote these and other brilliant poems as a “mute outcry” to the Holocaust.
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 Dutch poet and painter Lucebert (pseudonym for Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk) was born in Amsterdam in 1924, the city where he was to live for nearly thirty years. After a bohemian period in his twe
“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
