Following James Merrill's widely celebrated Collected Poems and Collected Novels and Plays, this volume gives us the man himself and his straightforward exploration of how he became himself. As much
“The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal exercise—the most satisfying,
For the centennial of Swann's Way: the most complete volume of Proust's poetry ever assembled, in a gorgeous deluxe edition?As a young man, Proust wrote both poetry and prose. Even after he embarked o
Jack Kerouac's musings on the creative process are collected together for the first time in this exquisite book. In the 1950s Allen Ginsberg asked Kerouac to formally describe his 'spontaneous prose'
Presents a collection of the twentieth-century German poet's collected and uncollected works, as well as passages from his novel, "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge"