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Songs for Tomorrow: A Collection of Poems 1960-2002

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. The most noted contemporary Korean poet, Ko Un has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize for Literature and is recognized as one of the most important of living poets.

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Poetry, etcetera: Cleaning House

Jacques Roubaud

What is poetry today, and how does it fit into our lives? Through a series of intelligent, personal, and often humorous essays, the great French poet and fiction writer Jacques Roubaud explores the role of poetry in society and what poetry means to each of us. This is simultaneously a profound and highly readable work on language and meaning.

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North of Hell

Miguel Correa Mujica

In his introduction to this novel, noted Cuban novelist Reinaldo Arenas suggests that there are two kinds of good literature--the second of which, exemplified by NORTH OF HELL, is an "unstoppable fury of the condemned"--satiric literature at its best. Born in Cuba in 1957, Miguel Correa Mujica has lived in New York since 1980, where he is an Associate Professor at the City University of New York.

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luce a cavallo

Therese Bachand

Exploring films produced by studios throughout the 1960s, Therese Bachand creates a lyrical and dynamic collection of short poetry, her first published collection. This book was chosen as a Gertrude Stein Award selection by Luigi Ballerini.

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Acropolis and Tram: Poems 1938-1978

Nikos Engonopoulos

An ambidextrous painter-poet and early convert to surrealism, Engonopoulos joined forces with Andreas Embirikos and Odysseus Elytis in the late 1930s to change the course of Greek poetry forever. Acropolis and Tram, Engonopoulos's first collection in English, spans his career from the early experiments in surrealist disassociation to the late elegies for a lost world. It also includes the long poem "Bolivar," his covert ode to the Greek resistance first published in 1945.

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Blood of the Quill

Azem Shkreli

Author of fiction, drama, screenplays, essays, and a collection of letters, Shkreli was best known for his ten verse collections written from 1960 to 1997, including The Buds, The Street of Angels, I Know a Word of Stone, From the Bible of Silence, and The Call of the Owl. This volume, Blood of the Quill, contains substantial selections from six of those volumes in a bilingual edition.

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The Surface of Motion

Rebecca Goodman

Calling on other art forms, present and past—the music of 20th century composer Messiaen, the paintings of Bergognone—Rebecca Goodman's first novel, The Surface of Motion, explores art and time, time and memory, and the relationship of art to the lives of those who create and live it.

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The New York Trilogy

Paul Auster

First published by Sun & Moon Press in three volumes in 1985 and 1986, The New York Trilogy has since been translated into more than twenty languages. It was ranked 87 in The [London] Observer's list of "The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time."

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The Position of Things: Collected Poems 1961-1992

Adriano Spatola

Now twenty years after Spatola's death, noted translator Paul Vangelisti has gathered all of Spatola's poetry—with the exception of the very first chapbook, in which his "impetus toward neo-avant-garde experimentation... had not yet been metabolized"—in one volume.

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Tussi Research

Dieter M. Gräf

Dieter M. Gräf's most recent collection of poems uses boldly elliptical language to explore all the Wagnerian tones of fatal longing, generals and swans, failed thinkers and introspective mass murderers, mystic outsiders and saviors of the world, Stalingrad and Auschwitz.

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My Year 2004: Under Our Skin

Douglas Messerli

This second volume of Douglas Messerli's ongoing "cultural memoirs" features twenty-two essays, reviews, and other pieces on figures such as Leonard Bernstein, Holden Caulfield, Lolita, Cole Porter, Alfred Kinsey, Carl Rakosi, Marjorie Perloff, Inger Christensen, and Charles Bernstein, as well as a work on "The Death of the Mother" in popular culture.

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Sens-Plastique

Malcolm de Chazal

Although two previous selections of Weiss's remarkable translations of this great masterwork have previously been published, no complete edition of the translation has been available until now. Now all English-language readers can share the joys of the aphoristic writing which Auden calls poetry written in prose.

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From the Lightning: Selected Poems

Gonzalo Rojas

One of the greatest contemporary Chilean poets, Gonzalo Rojas has received most of the major prizes of the Spanish-speaking literary world, including the Premio Reina Sofia, and has been nominated for a Nobel Prize. This new volume brings to the English-language audience a large selection of Rojas's poetry.