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Poetry explores themes such as death, spirituality, and the world of nature

A collection of poems includes "Fetish," "Totem," "Caliban," "Springblade," "Bread," "Xango," and "Koker"

Poems deal with aging, grief, death, poets, love, myth, nature, philosophy, and hope.

A modern American poet offers his interpretation of life, love, war, and death

A collection of poems resulting from Ferlinghetti's travels in South America and Europe

Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: “Reality is no obstacle.” Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled by the idées fixe of a “gray little librarian” with fallen arches whose name—mr herman melvill—is merely one of the coincidences binding him to his lodestar Herman Melville (“I too resided on East 26th Street . .. I, too, had worked for a while at the Customs Office”), which itself is just one aspect of his also being “constantly conscious of his connectedness” to Lebbeus Woods, to the rock that is Manhattan, to the “drunkard Lowry” and his Lunar Caustic, to Bartok. And with this consciousness of connection he is not only gaining true knowledge of Melville, but also tracing the paths to “a Serene Paradise of Knowledge.” Driven to save that Palace (a higher library he also serves), he loses his job and his wife leaves him, but “people must be told the truth: there is no dualism in existence.

A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote IslandsA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Book of the YearWinner of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's PrizeLonglisted for the International Booker PrizeEach disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific—shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, or Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and, taken as a whole, opens mesmerizing new vistas of how we can think about extinction and loss. With meticulous research and a vivid awareness of why we should care about these losses, Judith Schalansky, the acclaimed author of Atlas of Remote Islands, lets these ob

Three friends in a small Egyptian city celebrate idleness, elegance, and joie de vivre.

A literary mystery about cooking and gourmands by one of Brazil's most popular authors.

The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece-one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era.

Poems deal with love, sensuality, nature, the seasons, death, justice, music, war, and travel

Poems deal with death, nature, the past, art, perception, love, travel, communication, and truth

Poems portray the personal experiences of the author and explore the horror of war

One woman’s journey through the tumultuous and passionate birth of a new nation.

A startling and gorgeous work by Denmark's most admired poet finally available in English translation.

Poems deal with feelings, mortality, parents, grief, religion, art, the past, marriage, and the future

Surrealistic poems make use of improvisation and dream-like imagery to portray the modern world

Offers a selection of the master of human comedy's short stories from the 1930s and 1940s

Bernadette Mayer mixes together nature poems, pastiches, sonnets, prose poetry, and epigrams to create Poetry State Forest.

Inger Christensen's masterpiece it, translated brilliantly by Susanna Nied, and with an illuminating introduction by Anne Carson.

The classic novel from the author of Lolita, brilliantly portraying one man's ruin through love and betrayal.

Poems deal with dreams, death, courage, the soul, myths, failure, madness, hunger, nature, war, friendship, and love

Gathers poems from each period of Hilda Doolittle's career and includes background information on her major works

The Bulgarian Nobel Prize winner recounts in a frank, acerbic, and cranky way his years of British exile.

Nabokov's first novel in English, one ofhis greatest and most overlooked, with a new Introduction by Michael Dirda.

A fascinating memoir of refugee flight and survival, intellectual yet highly personal, by one America's eminent literary critics.

Presents the texts of the American playwright's dramas together with original cast listings and notes on their production

Presents the texts of the American playwright's dramas together with original cast listings and notes on their production

Presents the texts of the American playwright's dramas together with original cast listings and notes on their production

A collection of stories, essays, and poems written by the noted Welsh poet over a 10-year period

Household servants and accidental guests must wait out the orders of the lords of the house: not to disturb.

In Muriel Spark's fantastic first novel, the only things that aren't ambiguous are her matchless originality and glittering wit.

Two poems tell the stories of Martin, a detribalized Apache, and the narrator's efforts to survive in the barrio

This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956.

A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice cream.

Gathers poems from each period of the poet's career, including poems dealing with fame, memory, politics, love, travel, and poetry

Traces the inner world of a Jewish man devastated by his wife's death and the recent ravages of World War II

After running over an Acaray snake in South America, Wagner's luck changes and he becomes engulfed in a web of mayhem

Lise leaves her home in northern Europe for a holiday, but it is not rest and relaxation that she is looking for...

The life of an odd family is disrupted when the cat daemon appears and tries to become the center of the family