From National Book Award winning poet/author Clayton Eshleman a wide ranging new book of poetry, prose poems, and essays. Spanning subjects from the writer's craft to poetic musings on art, this colle
Jules Laforgue (1860-1887) was one of the first French poets to write in free verse. Although he lived only 27 years, he had a major impact on many important poets in the 20th century. He himself was
Section of poems by Bei Dao translated by National Book Award winning translator Clayton Eshleman with Lucas Klein. Bei Dao, one of China's foremost modern poets, has been translated into 30 languages
Rene Char (1907-1988) was one of France's most respected 20th century poets. Part of the Surrealist group in the late 1920's-1930's, he gradually drifted away from the group. During WWII he joined the
The first comprehensive anthology in English of one of Romania's most important and exciting young poets. With some nine volumes of poetry, five books of fiction, and a number of selected essays publi
Art Poetique by Guillevic is a highly personal account of the process and experience of writing poetry. It was published in Paris in 1989, when, at the age of eighty-two, the poet had behind him a li
In 1908 a small volume of poetry was published in Paris by an unknown author named A. O. Barnabooth-who in fact did not exist. Only after the book received favorable reviews by major French writers an
Multiple-award winning poet Marilyn Kallets first book of new and collected poems draws from many of her books and publications to create a succinct and comprehensive overview of her work. Author of 1
The Contes et nouvelles en vers of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were published at various times throughout his life, often these works threatened to get him in trouble with both Church and Academie
The whole story of a difficult love, from the first signs of tenderness through a life-and-death battle, to a reconciliation made necessary by wisdom. An affair conducted from a great distance throug
The Caveat Onus poem cycle was originally published by a small New Orleans press as four separate books following Hurricane Katrina. The various volumes have since garnered critical praise throughout
A discourse on the re-invention of love but beginning on a sombre note of suicide. A work of desire, despair, and reconciliation. A polemical and theoretical text far ahead of its time. One of the mos
Fire Exit is all about participatory observation. The reader is taken on a trip, but not an ordinary journey - it is a derive, in the true sense of the word: a detour, a drifting, an ambling. We are
What we have here is a poet who dances with angels and/or jazz masters. When you say his words out loud you hear the syllabled beats of a rhythm master. Far too few contemporary poets are as profound
Internationally recognized poet Robert Kelly, author of over 80 published works, newest book: The Hexagon.From the author:If the Pentagon is war, then the hexagon —inner chamber of the hive — is peace
