Forthcoming Titles

Arthur Schnitzler

Series No. 203,260 pages

Jaimy Gordon

Named one of the best books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, Jaimy Gordon's novel takes on the difficult subject of a young girl coming of age and falling in love with an older woman, her psychiatrist.

Series No. 179,500 pages

Ivo Michiels

Born in 1923, Ivo Michiels is the author of numerous novels, film scenarios, and a ten-volume journal, Journal brut. His experimental masterpiece—influential to younger writers of Dutch literature today—is his five novels of The Book Alpha, beginning with the volume of that title. This antiwar masterpiece is one of the great texts of twentieth-century literature.

Series No. 176,160 pages

Nelly Sachs

Nobel Prize-winning poet Nelly Sachs escaped Nazi Germany to Sweden, where she wrote these and other brilliant poems as a "mute outcry" to the Holocaust.

Series No. 152,312 pages

Paul Vangelisti

Noted poet and translator Paul Vangelisti reflects upon urban living, love, and friendships in the context of the transience of life in this new collection, his twenty-third to date. Vangelisti recently won the PEN American Center award for his cotranslation of Amelia Rosselli's War Variations (Green Integer 121).

Series No. 129,88 pages

Yuri Olyesha

First published in 1927, this brilliant satire of the Soviet system presents three comic characters, Nikolai Kavalerov and the Babichev brothers, bumbling their way through the bureaucracy.

Series No. 154,200 pages

Gonzalo Rojas

Gonzalo Rojas was born in Chile in 1917, and his life began with a stroke of lightning as a boy. He was later connected with a surrealist group and became one of the most noted poets of his country. This collection is brilliantly translated by John Simon.

Series No. 155,250 pages

The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Gertrude Stein Awards

A continuation of the famed Sun & Moon Press series of selections of poems published in 2004 magazines, this volume expands the popular series to include all English-language poetry.

Series No. EL-E-PHANT 8,260 pages

Xavier de Maistre

Under house arrest for participation in a duel, Xavier de Maistre wrote this remarkable fantasy, where for several days he makes an imaginary journey—around his room! A stunning classical work of imaginative travel.

Series No. 167,200 pages

Douglas Messerli

368 pages

The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century

The eighth volume of Douglas Messerli's encyclopedic anthologies of international poetry includes twenty-one poets of renown, including Adonis, Ilse Aichinger, Dino Campana, C.P. Cavafy, Julio Cortázar, D.H. Lawrence, Olga Orozco, Robert Sosa, and Tarjei Vesaas. Biographies and complete listings of books in the original languages and English are included.

Series No. EL-E-PHANT 8,280 pages

Knut Hamsun

Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun is at his best in this early novel, reprinted from the Sun & Moon edition. This popular book, described as an important transitional work in Hamsun's career, received rave reviews upon its original English-language publication.

Series No. 171,300 pages

Adolfo Bioy Casares [H. Bustos Domecq]

Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) was one of the most noted Argentine writers of the twentieth century. The author of novels and stories, he also collaborated, under the pseudonym H. Bustos Domecq, with Jorge Luis Borges on five works, including the Chronicles of H. Bustos Domecq. Selected Stories presents his best writing in short fiction.

Series No. 174,250 pages

Malcolm de Chazal

First published in Malcolm de Chazal's native Mauritius in 1947, Sens-Plastique, consisting of hundreds of brilliantly entertaining aphorisms, is becoming a worldwide classic. Irving Weiss' stunning translation reveals a new masterwork to the English language reader.

Series No. 175,600 pages

Ko Un

Recognized as the greatest living Korean poet, Ko Un has produced a vast amount of poetry over the years, including the noted collection Ten Thousand Lives, previously published by Green Integer. This new volume selects work from Ko Un's entire career to date.

Series No. 196,300 pages

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

The Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, born Else Hildegard Ploetz, worked first as a model, posing for artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and others. She also produced her own Dadaist art, using found materials and her own body and dress, sauntering through Greenwich Village in outrageous attire and partial nudity. Her poetry was deemed "mad" by readers of The Little Review. This is the first major selection of her work.

Series No. 168,190 pages

Paul van Ostaijen

Paul van Ostaijen was a great Flemish innovator and experimenter in Dutch and Belgian modernism. These are furious expressions of his disillusionment; as he wrote, "My poems have no content, only theme as in music."

Series No. 211,180 pages

Jules Michelet

Refusing to swear allegiance to the regime of Emperor Louis Napoleon, the great French naturalist Jules Michelet (1798–1874) turned his attention to a study of the natural world, which he published in several volumes. La Mer (The Sea), one of the best of these, is part prose poem, travelogue, and autobiography, which influenced such notables as Jules Verne and was the subject of studies by Roland Barthes and others.

Series No. 177,148 pages

Vladimir Mayakovsky

The three plays of this volume—A Tragedy (reproduced in the original typography), The Bathtub, and Bugs!—give strong testament to the great Russian poet and playwright's joyous satiric writing and Paul Schmidt's skills as a translator. Along with other Russian futurists, Vladimir Mayakovsky changed Russian literature and influenced world writing.

Series No. 169,400 pages

Jan Erik Vold

Series No. 182,96 pages

Anthony Powell

This fascinating catalog of the comic relates the ironic and ludicrous adventures of a noted (but mysterious) English travel-book writer whose reported "death" throws the London literary world into a tizzy.

Series No. 190,340 pages

Jean-Pierre Rosnay

Series No. 186,125 pages