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“A keenly discriminating literary mind.” “A remarkably powerful writer.” “The essence of Steiner’s magic—I don’t really know what else to call it —has been his singular ability to articulate and elucidate, through nuance, allusion, and a peerless precision of language, those Phoebus-rays of wisdom that lie beyond wisdom and almost always elude words….” —Nick Tosches, Bookforum | ||
“Ernesto Cardenal is a major epic-historical poet, in the grand lineage of Central American prophet Rubén Darío.” —Allen Ginsberg Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems charts the life-work of the celebrated poet Ernesto Cardenal—“one of the world’s major poets” (Choice) and “the preeminent poet of Central America today” (Library Journal). | ||
“Shiraishi is the Allen Ginsberg of Japan.” —Kenneth Rexroth “Shiraishi’s poems are outcries, meditations, exclamations of fierce energy and playfulness.” —Anne Waldman | ||
“Sombre, delicate, startling empathetic.” —John Updike Eleven short, deeply spiritual stories ranging from autobiographical serendipities to solemn, empathetic parables. | ||
“Once you’ve started reading Aira, you don’t want to stop.” —Roberto Bolaño “Aira is firmly in the tradition of Jorge Luis Borges and W.G. Sebald, those great late modernists for whom fiction was a theater of ideas.” —Mark Doty, Los Angeles Times “Utterly astonishing.” —San Francisco Chronicle | ||
“Bolano wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own.” –Francisco Goldman, The New York Times Magazine Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet: his own first and strongest literary persona. | ||
Called “a consummate poet” by Robert Creeley, Bernadette Mayer was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1945. A most prolific poet, her first book was published at the age of twenty-three. Many texts later she continues to write progressive poetry from her home in East Nassau, New York. “One of the most interesting, exciting, and open of late-20th century experimental poets.” | ||
“Michael Davidson has done a masterful job of editing this new edition of the Collected Poems.... Few poets significantly alter and enhance the state of the art. Oppen is one of them.” —Michael Palmer, Bookforum George Oppen’s New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poet’s books published in his lifetime (1908–84), as well as his previously uncollected poems and a selection of his unpublished work. This newly revised paperback edition also includes a CD of the poet reading from each of his poetry collections. | ||
Christmas Poems is a pleasing and diverse selection of classic holiday poems that goes all the way back to an eclogue of Virgil, moves along to Chaucer, Dante, Milton and Herrick, then on to Whittier, Longfellow, Paul Dunbar, Rilke and Yeats, and on to William Carlos Williams, e.e. cummings, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Patchen, and Thomas Merton, right to the present day with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Bernadette Mayer. Beautifully designed, the original version of this New Directions gem was first published in the 1940s (and reissued in the 1970s): it rings with the deep sentiments of the season and just the right splash of holiday cheer. Following the lead of Pablo Neruda’s Love Poems—our popular new gift book—Christmas Poems comes with French flaps and is the perfect size for a stocking stuffer. | ||
“Camino Real has a very small bull’s eye. It’s difficult to hit, but when you do, when you do—the world’s a brand new place.” “What is the heart but a sort of—instrument!—that translates noise into music, chaos into—order…” —Lord Byron, from Camino Real “There are people who think that Camino Real was Tennessee Williams’ best play and I believe that they are right. It is a play torn out of a human soul.” | ||
Tennessee Williams knew how to tell a good tale, and this steamy, wrenching play about a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, and about the lost innocence and corruption of Chance Wayne, reveals the dark side of the American dreams of youth and fame. Distinguished American playwright Lanford Wilson has written an insightful Introduction for this edition. Also included are Williams’ original Foreword to the play; the one-act play "The Enemy: Time"—the germ for the full-length version, published here for the first time; an essay by Tennessee Williams scholar, Colby H. Kullman; and a chronology of the author’s life. | ||
The Berlin Stories is a book comprising two short novels by Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin and The Last of Mr. Norris. "Sally Bowles took center stage in [Berlin Stories'] musical adaptation, Cabaret, but the theatrical version can't match the power and richness of the original." –Time (100 Best English-language novels of the 20th century) | ||
Eça de Queirós's late novel is a hymn to country life: The City and The Mountains satirizes the emptiness of city life and of modernity itself. Wonderfully funny, it bubbles with joie de vivre. "A writer of genius." –Harold Bloom | ||
Nathaniel Tarn's newest collection of poems Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers dives deep into the spiritual and physical sufferings of our global age. "A rich temperament, a remarkable, linguistic inventiveness, and a vision both original and universal." –Octavio Paz | ||
Set in a rural landscape as vivid as its characters, As a Friend tells the story of a gifted young man, a land surveyor, whose impact on those around him provokes intense self-examination and charged eroticism. "Profound, relentlessly beautiful, this exceptional book catches fire again and again." –Rikki Ducornet | ||
In Peter Cole's remarkable new book, Things on Which I've Stumbled, the forces and sources that have long driven his work come together in singular fashion. "A major poet-translator" –Harold Bloom "Peter Cole is a true maker" –Edward Hirsch | ||
The final novel by John Gardner, Mickelsson's Ghosts, originally published in 1982 just months before his untimely death in a motorcycle accident, is a tour de force. “No one tracks the emotional landscape of characters better than John Gardner.” –Toni Morrison | ||
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The Berlin Stories
The City and the Mountains
Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers
As a Friend
Things On Which I've Stumbled
Mickelsson's Ghosts