H.D. (1886-1961) is a major figure in modernist English literature, her five-decade career encompassing some of the earliest free verse in English, early imagist lyrics, experiments in prose, late mod
Hard Candy / Pitch Roll Yaw is a flip book with two poetry collections facing each other. In Hard Candy Annie Lanzillotto offers poems and prose of caregiving and mourning in the relationship between
Understanding Latin Literature is a highly accessible, user-friendly work that provides a fresh and illuminating introduction to the most important aspects of Latin prose and poetry. This second editi
Understanding Latin Literature is a highly accessible, user-friendly work that provides a fresh and illuminating introduction to the most important aspects of Latin prose and poetry. This second editi
Translated by Lee M. Hollander, with an Introduction by Thorsteinn Gylfason. Njal's Saga is the finest of the Icelandic sagas, and one of the world's greatest prose works.Written c.1280, about events
Composed during a period of extended bed rest, Gabriele D'Annunzio's Notturno is a moving prose poem in which imagination, experience, and remembrance intertwine. The somber atmosphere of the poem ref
In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of Compulsory Happiness create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, f
Mairtin O Cadhain’s irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation for English-language readers has ever bef
Yves Bonnefoy, who will soon attain the age of ninety, has gratified his readers during the past two decades with the most prolific and innovative period of his splendid lifework.
Baudelaire's prose poems had two working titles: "Petits Poemes en prose" (small prose poems) and "Le Spleen de Paris". This title features a collection of Baudelaire's pieces.
Baudelaire's prose poems had two working titles: "Petits Poemes en prose" (small prose poems) and "Le Spleen de Paris". This title features a collection of Baudelaire's pieces.
This book approaches, for the first time, Elizabeth Bishop’s work in multiple genres (her prose-like verse, her literary prose, her prose poems, and her letter prose) as a stylistic whole.
This book approaches, for the first time, Elizabeth Bishop’s work in multiple genres (her prose-like verse, her literary prose, her prose poems, and her letter prose) as a stylistic whole.
"Excellent . . . the only critical book on prose poetry that not only provides a historical background for the prose poem in English, but also focuses on contemporary American prose poets."--Peter Joh
In critical opinion and popular polls, Mairtin O Cadhain’s Graveyard Clay is invariably ranked the most important prose work in modern Irish. This bold new translation of his radically originalCre na
Autobiographies is the first volume in Edward Thomas: Prose Writings: A Selected Edition. It contains the autobiographical prose of one of the most respected British writers of the twentieth century,
In elegant and vivid prose, this deeply informed book offers a powerful synthesis of the ways men and women worked in early modern France. Distinguished historian James R. Farr shows how the shifting
Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Mon
A collection of Basho's prose works include all of his longer prose pieces--the travel journals and "Saga Diary"--along with eighty short essays in haibun, prose in the spirit of haiku.
A collection of Basho's prose works include all of his longer prose pieces--the travel journals and "Saga Diary"--along with eighty short essays in haibun, prose in the spirit of haiku.
A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history of poetry? Are the very words "prose poem" an oxymoro
