Poetry. Armand Schwerner, one of the foremost translators and poets of his generation, died before completing his translation of THE DIVINE COMEDY. A few months before his death, he prepared the canto
Poetry. African American Studies. Kamau Brathwaite was born in Barbados in 1930, and found a rootedness in Africa that would sharpen his sense of "wholeness" and shape his awareness. His published wor
Poetry. These are two poems in one volume by one of the leading French poets of the new generation whose work is now becoming known in the U.S. This volume is translated by Ray DiPalma and Juliette Va
Poetry. Fiction. Pacific Island Studies. The anthology is the product of the combined vision of three organizations dedicated to the enhancement of education in Hawaii: Bamboo Ridge Press, Curriculum
Literary Nonfiction. Music. African American Studies. A companion volume to the critically acclaimed READING JAZZ, WRITING JAZZ is the first comprehensive historical anthology of writings on jazz by A
Fiction. Poetry. Laura Mullen's clever postmodern gothic is a tour de force. Here enter the stock elements of the generic horror tale: the haunted house, the doctor, the down-to-earth gardener, the ch
Fiction. "While the new sentence—the prose wing of Language writing—strips narrative down to pointed sets of shifting referents, Lu, in her debut, knowingly resuscitates it, creating a precise and hum
Poetry. Alongside the rise of Native American writers such as Sherman Alexie and Louise Erdrich, writers like Diane Glancy have been quietly expoloring other possiblities for Native American writing.
Philosophy. Philomene Long has recorded almost a hundred koan-like moments from the life of widely-respected Zen master Maezumi Roshi, who died in 1995. Roshi had many famous visitors, including Allen
Poetry. The water shored up the pilings and barnacles/ that shored up the pier, that shored up/ the memory machine. In Lytle Shaw's CABLE FACTORY 20, Robert Smithson's description of the landscape sur
Poetry. Between his poems, Clemens Starck reflects upon the act of language: Trying to grasp another language is tantalizing. It requires considerable guesswork, becoming itself an act of imagination.
Poetry. Poetics. This book is a reprint of the popular 1993 Tsunami title by the author of DEBBIE: AN EPIC. Part manifesto, part dramatic dialogue, part epistolary prose, XEclogue jams the categories
Poetry. A collaborative effort by two of today's most famous poets. Equal parts poetry and philosophy, Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino's collaboration is organized around the act and idea of seeing,
Poetry. Lewis Turco is one of the most original and diversely talented Italian American poets. What a pleasure to read him in two languages at once -- his own zesty English and an Italian translation
This volume brings together for the first time one of the great lost masterworks of 20th Century American poetry. Stuart Z. Perkoff was the archetypal Beat poet, the central figure in the Venice West
Cultural Studies. Poetry. Yunte Huang's SHI: A RADICAL READING OF CHINESE POETRY is as much a bow to traditions of poetics across cultures as it is to linguistic efforts to bridge them. Huang concerns
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "These poems remind you of everything possible...They are, at the same time, self-organizing systems, flipping into unforeseen forms of invention that first de
Poetry. Art. In this beautiful new book from Past Tents, George Tysh collects his responses to works of art in the Cranbook Art Museum. The works themselves are reproduced alongside his poems. The Art
Nonfiction. Robert K. Thomas (1925-1991) was a Cherokee nationalist, social scientist, anthropologist, philosopher, teacher, activist, and spiritual leader. The collection of essays in this book range
Poetry. "Will we escape analogy," Claude Royet-Journoud asked. Does ANALOGIES OF ESCAPE answer this question? Or does it rather use that famous line as the enigma for a set of variations--a theme alwa
William Bronk was born in 1918 and lives now in Hudson Falls, New York. Acclaimed by The Nation as "our most significant poet," he is the author of nearly two dozen celebrated books of poetry. Winner
Poetry. "Michael Heller has one of the most distinctive voices to be found in contemporary poetry. WORDFLOW: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS showcases a major talent that will engage the readers mind
Nonfiction. Native American Studies. PLANTING TAIL FEATHERS recounts the passage in 1953 of the federal statute commonly known as Public Law 280. Public Law 280 brought hardship to the affected reserv
Poetry. This new edition of UNSELECTED POEMS--a consistent SPD bestseller since its original publication--gathers the poems left out of SELECTED POEMS and NEW SELECTED POEMS. I really think he is extr
Poetry. Translated from the Dutch by Manfred Wolf. Remco Campert is one of a wave of poets who swept to the fore in the Netherlands in the 1950s. The Dutch have called these "Fiftiers&quo
Poetry. "There are six poems in this book by a poet who claims his ambition is to write but a dozen poems in his life. Clearly, the lessons of that California workshop did not take and Iino's
Poetry. In WE SPEAK SILENT, an opus of the quirky relationships between people and their words, Hannah Weiner becomes the vessel for the emotional spectrum of the human comedy. It is a continuing adve
Poetry. Art is no consolation, but it is art. Rod Smith sends us this "thinking event of the pulse fetish tone handle" from America's capital, where each day blank, pig-eyed men, hissing a kind of Eng
Poetry. Translated from the French by Keith Waldrop. "A descriptive method from which all the conventional indicators have been withheld? Like a theory of colors in which no colors are shown?
Poetry. "The bell-like musicality of these poems belies their grim insistence: we live in a furnace. We consume and are consumed"-San Francisco Chronicle. "Mayes has an urgent interest in the ways pas
Poetry. The erotic works of Alan Davies hold a unique place in contemporary literature. They do not focus on the fantasy of sex, underwear and velvet ropes, but on the language of sex and the social f
Nonfiction. "In a series of beautifully crafted, stimulating essays, Piombino reveals how psychoanalysis, science and art meet and catalyze each other in the creative process. He is an artist-scientis
Poetry. Edited by Lee Ann Brown. SONNETS, first published in 1989 as Tender Buttons Number 1 is widely considered to be one of the most generative and innovative works of contemporary American poetry,
Poetry. Robert Dana's WHAT I THINK I KNOW is the fruit of a lifetime's quiet dedication to the art of poetry. These rigorously clear and deeply felt poems repay the closest reading. My hope is that th
Poetry. "Poems Written in Rome, October 1984 - February 1985" is the note below the manuscript title of ODES OF ROBA ("Roba" means "stuff" in Italian slang), a period which marked Clark Coolidge's fir
Drama. YOU THE CITY was produced in New York City in 1988. It was re-produced in London in 1989 by the London International Festival of Theatre. A production in the Hague took place in 1990. This book
Poetry. Translated from the French by Norma Cole. The first English translation of this French poet, now an influence on many young American poets, who died at the age of 37 in 1978. Beverly Dahlen co
Roger Giroux was born in 1925 in Meximieux, near Lyon. He published one collection of poetry, L'arbre le temps, winner of the Prix Max Jacob, in 1964. In Paris he worked for the Serie noire and transl
Poetry. Newly available from SPD, STARTING OUT FOR THE DIFFICULT WORLD (Harper & Row, 1987) was Cornell professor Robert Dana's fourth collection of poetry. He is a writer of strong, rich expe
