Roberto Bolaño
Nazi Literature in the Americas
New in paper
978-0-8112-1794-1, $13.95

Remarkably inventive, chilling, and witty, Nazi Literature in the Americas offers keen insights into the workings of an extraordinarily fecund literary imagination and has been acclaimed “exceptionally entertaining” (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World). “At once funny, furious, and frightening, Nazi Literature in the Americas,” is, as Michael Saler expressed it in the London TLS, “brilliantly conceived.”

“Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary facist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if he were Borges’s wisecracking, sardonic son, Bolaño has meticulously created a tightly woven network of far-right litterateurs and purveyors of belles letters for whom Hitler was beauty, truth, and the great lost hope.”
—Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review

Yoko Tawada
The Naked Eye
Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
978-0-8112-1739-2, $13.95

Dreamy, meditative, and filled with the gritty everyday perils of a person living somewhere without papers, The Naked Eye is a novel that is as surprising as it is delightful.

“Tawada’s slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency.”
—Michael Porter, The New York Times

“Her finest stories dramatize the fate of the individual in a mobilized world.”
—Benjamin Lytal, The New York Sun

“Tawada’s chilling evocations of disorientation are the peers of Paul Bowles’ most chilling stories.”
—Booklist

Guillermo Rosales
The Halfway House
Preface by José Manuel Prieto
Translated by Anna Kushner
978-0-8112-1802-3, $14.95

Never before available in English, The Halfway House is a trip to the darkest corners of the human condition. Humiliations, filth, stench, and physical abuse comprise the asphyxiating atmosphere of a halfway house for indigents in Miami where, in a shaken mental state, the writer William Figueras lives after his exile from Cuba.

“This posthumous translation of Rosales, a Cuban-American writer who committed suicide in 1993, delivers a raw, powerful story set in a Miami home for the mentally ill… It’s a frightening, nihilistic cousin of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
—Publishers Weekly

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poetry as Insurgent Art
Rerelease
978-0-8112-1719-4, $12.95

Since publishing Coney Island of the Mind (1958), Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been the poetic conscience of America. Now in Poetry as Insurgent Art, he offers a primer, in prose, of what poetry is, could be, and should be. If you read poetry, find out what is missing from the usual fare you are served; if you are a poet, read at your own risk—you will never again look at your role in the same way.

Tennessee Williams
New and Selected Essays: Where I Live
Revised and expanded edition; Foreword by John Lahr; Edited, with an Introduction, by John S. Bak
978-0-8112-1728-6, $18.95

For most of his Broadway plays Tennessee Williams composed an essay, most often for The New York Times, to be published just prior to opening—something to whet the theatergoers’ appetites and to get the critics thinking. Many of these were collected in the 1978 volume Where I Live which is now expanded by noted Williams scholar John S. Bak to include all Williams’ theater essays, biographical pieces, introductions and reviews. This volume also includes a few occasional pieces, program notes, and a discreet selection of juvenilia such as his 1927 essay published in Smart Set, which answers the question “Can a good wife be a good sport?”

Kenneth Rexroth
Written on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese
Gift edition
Edited by Eliot Weinberger
978-0-8112-1837-5, $12.95

I go out of the darkness
Onto a road of darkness
Lit only by the far off
Moon on the edge of the mountains.
—Izumi Shikobu

“I must have Kenneth Rexroth’s translations from the Japanese at once!”
—William Carlos Williams

Kenneth Rexroth
Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind: Poems from the Chinese
Gift edition
Edited by Eliot Weinberger
978-0-8112-1836-8, $12.95

Moss covered paths between scarlet peonies,
Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows.
I envy you, drunk with flowers,
Butterflies swirling in your dreams.
—Ch’ien Ch’i

“Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills.”
—American Poetry Review

Dunya Mikhail
Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea
Translated from the Arabic by Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail
Bilingual; with Photographs
978-0-8112-1831-3, $16.95

“Mikhail’s style maintains an impressive fragility and delicacy of image that touches the reader’s heart . . . . ”
—American Poetry Review

“A poet who can take a subject as difficult as the death of a child and write, counter to the human-interest story or sound bite, a poem that will outlast the exigencies of the present.”
—Boston Review