In Cuba

Ernesto Cardenal

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Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton

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• "The moment of takeoff was ecstatic...joy. We left the ground--I with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at last on my true way ... Lees meer

Heinrich Von Kleist

Robert E Helbling

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• A biography on the writer and playwright Heinrich von Kleist Lees meer

From Snow and Rock, from Chaos

Hayden Carruth

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• Once again, the setting for many of the pieces is the Green Mountains of Vermont, where the poet and his family have lived for several years. A member... Lees meer

The Cantos

Ezra Pound

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• Delmore Schwartz said about The Cantos : "They are one of the touchstones of modern poetry." William Carlos WIlliams said "[Pound] discloses history b... Lees meer

Freeing of the Dust

Denise Levertov

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• Sixty poems reflect the contemporary writer's personal sentiments on the tragedy of war, the need to be free, and the meaning of family relationships ... Lees meer

Selected Writings

Guillaume Apollinaire

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• When Guillaume Apollinaire died in 1918 at the age of thirty-eight, as the result of a war wound, he was already known as one of the most original and... Lees meer

A Breath of Life

Clarice Lispector

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• A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has ... Lees meer

The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

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• Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists' Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battl... Lees meer

Let Those Who Appear

Samuel Grolmes, Kazuko Shiraishi, Yumiko Tsumura

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• Over twenty-five years ago New Directions, at the urging of Kenneth Rexroth, published Seasons of Sacred Lust , a selection of poems by a young Japane... Lees meer

One Hundred Poems from the Chinese

Kenneth Rexroth

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• The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries--Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)--his poems... Lees meer

Turtle Island

Gary Snyder

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• These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, s... Lees meer

Alphabetical Africa

Walter Abish

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• Alphabetical Africa , Walter Abish's delightful first novel, is an extraordinary linguistic tour de force, high comedy set in an imaginary dark contin... Lees meer

Água Viva

Clarice Lispector

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• A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transformi... Lees meer

Fancy Goods/Open All Night

Paul Morand

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• The reputation of Paul Morand (1888-1976) rests squarely upon his short stories from the 1920s, which introduced a fresh and exuberant style into post... Lees meer

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

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• Amanda is a mother who is a victim of fantasies about her withdrawn daughter, Laura. Laura wears a leg-brace because of a crippling childhood illness ... Lees meer

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Louis Zukofsky

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• River that must turn full after I stop dying Song, my song, raise grief to music Light as my loves' thought, the few sick So sick of wrangling: thus w... Lees meer

Spontaneous Particulars

Susan Howe

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• Great American writers--William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Noah Webster, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Henry James -- all in t... Lees meer

Mallarme in Prose

Jill Anderson, Mary Ann Caws, Stephane Mallarme

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• This volume contains never-before translated prose selections by the father of the Symbolist movement, one of the most influential cultural figures of... Lees meer

The Flight of Icarus: Novel

Raymond Queneau

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• Called by some the French Borges, by others the creator of le nouveau roman a generation ahead of its time, Raymond Queneau's work in fiction continue... Lees meer

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

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• Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Sinc... Lees meer

The Captain's Verses

Pablo Neruda

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• Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri--the parad... Lees meer

Gorf

Michael McClure

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• Readers of Michael McClure's play Gorf may be reminded of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi , even if dancing TV sets and the "Middle American" protagonists Mert... Lees meer

One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese

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• The original texts are presented in romaji, the transliteration into the Western alphabet, in this collection representative of a wide range of classi... Lees meer