Since the publication of her first book in 1967, Ewa Lipska has been among the most acclaimed of contemporary Polish poets. Yet, to date she has not enjoyed the same popularity in the United States as
This intimate portrayal of the friendship between two icons of twentieth-century poetry, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, highlights the parallel lives of the poets as exiles living in America and N
In the midst of the German occupation, two aging intellectuals travel to a farm in the countryside looking for a respite from the claustrophobic scene in Warsaw. They quickly grow bored of their buco
The first English-language anthology of post-1989 Czech plays exploring once-taboo subjects and new realities. Includes plays by David Drabek, Lenka Lagronova, Jiri Pokorny, Ivana Ruzickova, Egon Tobi
Alta, Zaya, Nara, Oyuna and Dolgorna - a mother, three sisters, and the teenage daughter of one of the sisters - each tell their pieces of the family story, an epic fraught with secrets and betrayals
Novica Tadic is Serbia’s leading poet and the linguistic heir to Vasko Popa. With this translation, US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winner Charles Simic brings the full range of Tadic’s dark beaut
In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates the city of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and impossible statues, all lurking on the peripheries of a town so fami
These newly collected short stories reveal a master at the top of his game. Drago Jancar possesses an acute understanding of the human psyche, enabling his stories to resonate beyond their particular
This bracing collection marks the first appearance in English of the Polish poet Janusz Szuber, hailed as the greatest discovery in Polish poetry of the late twentieth century when, in his late fortie
Twentieth-century Polish literature is often said to be a ?witness to history,” a narrative of the historical and political disasters that visited the nation. In this insightful book, Jaroslaw Anders
Watch for the signs! What signs these shall be, I say unto you: first the earth will flow with the blood of Aen Seidhe, the Blood of Elves...For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have
A series of poems reflects the author's firsthand involvement in Polish history and culture and aims to consider the implications of greatness. By the author of In Praise of the Unfinished: Selected P
Poetry. Poems born in "a time of abrupt needs," this collection catalogs those individual and imperative fancies that, in the cosmos of Tomaz Salamun, eternity aims to replace: A genealogy of dressmak
A deftly written novel brimming with magical realist touches, The Feline Plague tells the story of Ira, a Slovenian child who discovers early the cruelty of the adult world—particularly the mistreatme
“No one is born a poet without pain,” writes acclaimed Polish poet Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki. In Peregrinary, a selection from his nine volumes of poetry to date, Tkaczyszyn-Dycki offers deeply perso
Fifty powerful and unsettling untitled poems make up this mesmerizing collection by distinguished Slovenian writer Brane Maletic.In these poems, Mozetic confronts meaninglessness and pleasure, melanc
