The greatest living Romanian poet, Nina Cassian, has written this comment about Carmen Firan's work: translated from the Romanian by Adam Sorkin and others, "Carmen Firan has many voice --almost a cho
Bilingual EditionPublished in 1968 in German, Fadensonnen (Fathomsuns) is Paul Celan's sixth and most extensive collection of verse, presenting 105 poems. Written between 1965 and 1967, they comprised
"Amnesiac is a furious metaphorical campaign to seize meaning from human violence and suffering...In this book, as in too much of life, experience and language are irreconcilable, and each is irreconc
Unobtrusively but decisively, Stephanos Papadopoulos' work is informed by various cultures: American, Greek, ancient and modern, French and English as distinguished from American. He follows other po
Bilingual EditionHans Magnus Enzensberger is Germany's most important and influential living poet, a lightning rod in a stormy political and cultural landscape. The Sheep Meadow Press is proud to pub
Roberto Longhi (1890 - 1970) is regarded by Italians as their most important art critic, art historian, and prose stylist of this century, with unsurpassed powers of observation and description. This
PRAISE FOR SUZANNE GARDINIER"Gardinier is above all a poet whose language and images are completely integrated so that, in Keats's words, every rift is laden with ore."
"Mersal offers an exquisite daughter-to-father poem. Titled "The Clot," this sequence radiates with a combination of tenderness, humor and anguish unmatched in contemporary Arabic poetry."--From the
Bilingual EditionTranslated from the French and with an introduction by John Ashbery"After I began translating Pierre Martory, that is, after I began to realize that his marvelous poetry would likely
In The New Yorker, George Steiner referred to Paul Celan's prose as "a handful of speeches and a parable, which are transforming the landscape of poetic theory and the philosophy of language." He was
"Her poetry is visceral: 'the blood of poetry' and praise runs through Dolores is Blue/Dolorez is Blues. Like jazz, sorrow transforms itself into joy. She is bookwise, streetwise, cool metaphysical.
