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In this witty how-to guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories, she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she gavean...

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An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration. "An Episode in the Life of a ...

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The English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they've been assigned: one shreds paper, one p...

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For thirty-five years American poet Nathaniel Mackey has been writing a long poem of fugitive making like no other: two elegiac, intertwined serial poemsSong of the Andoumboulou and Muthat follow a mysterious, migrant we through the rhythms and cu...

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Who Killed My Father rips into France's long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French politicians- at the minimum-of negligent homicide. The author goes to visit the ugly gray town of his chi...

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Here at last is an exciting new translation of the modernist Brazilian epic Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade. This landmark novel from 1928 has been hugely influential. It follows the adventures of the shapeshifting Macunaíma and his brothers as they...

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This selection has been the introduction for generations of American readers to the mesmerizing poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1937). Lorca is admired the world over for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his a...

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Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series", Sorting Facts is Susan Howes masterful meditation on the filmmaker Chris Marker, whose film stills are interspersed throughout. An excerpt: Sorting word-facts I only know an apparition. Scrib...

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Anne Carson's poetry - characterized by various reviewers as "short talks", "essays", or "verse narratives" - combines the confessional and the critical in a voice all her own. Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne C...

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Charged with sensuality and passion, Nerudas love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Nobel Prize winners oeuvre. This wonderful book collects Nerudas most pa...

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"Antwerp's" signature elements--crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits--mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolao. A elegantly produced, small collectible stamped cover-on-cloth edition.

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Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries ...

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Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of Chinese philosophers. Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the fourth and third centuries B.C., is the chief au...

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Reality and fantasy are interwoven with terrifying power as two actors on tourbrother and sisterfind themselves deserted by the trope in a decrepit "state theatre in an unknown state." Faced (perhaps) by an audience expecting a performan...

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In 1944, New Directions brought out Thomas Mertons first book of verse. By the time of his tragic, untimely death in 1968, Father Louis (as he was known at the Trappist monastery where he lived for twenty-seven years) had published upwards of fift...

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Inger Christensen, often cited as a Nobel contender and one of Europe's most revered poets, is perhaps best known for her groundbreaking work Det (It), a cycle of poems published in 1969. Her first book published in the U.S., alphabet (New Di...

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"Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetiteone of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and...

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The hero, the semi-autobiographical Ferdinand, moves through the nightmare of London's underworld during the years of World War I. In this distressing setting, he meets pimps and prostitutes, pawnbrokers and magicians, policemen and arsonists. He ...

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The much-beloved and most widely read of Mertons works, "New Seeds of Contemplation" covers a diverse range of subjects including faith, spiritual wonder, "the night of the senses," and renunciation.

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Anew, sun, to fire summer leaves move toward the air from the stems of the branches fire summer fire summer from Anew Here is the complete music-filled arc of Louis Zukofskys shorter verse collected in one volume: lyrical love poems written to his...

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*Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award* The title section of Kim Hyesoons powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during w...

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Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her seminal work. Sophokles' luminous and disturbing tragedy is here given an entirely fresh language and presen...

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Nine of Yukio Mishima's finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. Often his characters are sophistica...

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The Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore known for dragging unwary toddlers to their deaths in rivers: a scaly, child-sized creature, looking something like a frog, but with a sharp, pointed beak and an oval-shaped saucer on top of its head,...

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These two dark stories, and the most notable works of the short career of Nathanael West, remain stunningly powerful pieces of fiction more than 75 years after their original publication.

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Although a very prolific poetand arguably Americas greatestEmily Dickinson (18301886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade books. When, in her later years, she stopped producing th...

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Paterson is both a place-the New Jersey city in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr. ...

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In a Rio de Janeiro suburb in the 1970s, a married couple, their daughter, and crippled teenage son Camilo, take in an orphan named Cosme. Their teen boys unexpectedly fall in love, but their intimate world is shattered when Cosme is killed by a n...

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The celebrated writer lvaro Mutis envied new readers of Ida Vitales poetry: unexpected pleasures await them. Time Without Keys: Selected Poems is the first volume of Vitales illustrious poetry to appear in the US. The selection spans seventy-five ...

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