Drama. Translated from the Polish by Gerard T. Kapolka. KORDIAN is a Polish classic written in 1833 by Juliusz Slowacki and features an amalgam of revolutionary spirit, tradition, modernist bravado an
Literary Nonfiction. Music. Poetry. Art. Derived in form from Aristotle's "Minor Work" of the same title, this variation of ON MARVELLOUS THINGS HEARD explores a range of literary appropriations of mu
Poetry. "The best Romanian literature is its poetry."--from the Afterword by Virgil Nemoianu. Firan and Mugur provide generous selections of works in English translation by Tudor Arghezi, Lucian Blaga
Poetry. "Leonard Schwartz follows a swarm of 'ifs' that lead through a series of hypotheses to a subjunctive space where hope and doubt lovingly and painfully intertwine. Here, we are shown how 'a thi
Sanketown tells of a ploace that captivates and holds hostage, a place hermitle and congoniral like the families that populare it. It tells the story of heredity and tragedy, how evil can magnerize as
Poetry. Illustrations by Jim Holyoak. "It is not every day a professional cognitive psychologist turns into a poet, yet that is what we have in Keith Holyoak. His study of Chinese poetry, especially L
Literary Nonfiction. This book includes essays on the phenomenon of the "guido": its origins and its relationship to the Italian/American community. The writers share their own views on a phenomenon t
Poetry. "Bruce Williams's THE MOJAVE ROAD AND OTHER JOURNEYS is simply one of the most breathtaking and heartbreaking collections of poetry I've read in many years. These poems constitute a sequence o
Poetry. "The poet goes to war in Vietnam as a clarinetist in the Army band and returns from hell to tell about it. It is vital that we read and hear Elijah Imlay—for our sense of history, for the trut
Poetry. Art. Contributors to this new anthology of poems inspired by the painting of Nicole Eisenman include Kostos Anagnopoulos, Gale Batchelder, Brenda Coultas, Alex Cuff, Steve Dalachinsky, Lynne D
Poetry. Winner of the Bob Kaufman Book Prize selected by poet Bernadette Mayer. "I want to write a Christopher Rizzo poem. He reminds me of Clark Coolidge. So here it is: 'demeter disney's demerol dri
Poetry. "Kristin Prevallet has made a work of beautiful seriousness by her variation on, homage to, shadowing of, and critical intelligence about T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. EVERYWHERE HERE AND IN BR
Fiction. Ken, the publisher, here. I don't often laugh, cry, and spit food on my computer screen simultaneously, but this book made that happen. You'll meet Nick, a hapless pawn in the world of global
Poetry. "The evanescent lilt of everyday rumination percolates through these wistful poems, ear bound to ambient eye's wry regrets and tender hopefulness. Perception becomes an aroma of reflection and
Fiction. African American Studies. In fluid prose, the stories in this remarkably mature collection chronicle an African American experience in the New South that is both rich and complex. Oftentimes,
Poetry. PROPAGATION's minimalist scoring belies an obsession with the gestural repleteness of discourse, with what poet and linguist Henri Meschonnic called the embodied aptitude of language ("a poem
Poetry. Art. Text by Jerome McGann with drawings by Susan Bee. "This delightful book plays with words and non-words, phonetics, and poetic conventions such as metrics, rhyme scheme, and figurative lan
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.
Fiction. "That the fresh and haunting new voice Lindsay Stern exercises in TOWN OF SHADOWS is difficult to classify ought to serve only to make it impossible to ignore. Rife with arch urgency, brief d
Poetry. "In THE ATHEIST'S PRAYER Madeline Tiger never forgets, even in the most intimate moments, that 'truth is...like the old inveterate river that holds clouds.' Tiger encompasses, with a tender em
