The latest collection by Bosnian expat Goran Simic, is as much a departure as it is a continuance. In this book, we find the world-renowned poet visiting familiar themes in fresh ways. Not only is Sim
Joshua Trotter's debut collection is a metaphysical hall of windows that seem to be mirrors and mirrors presenting themselves as windows. Trotter's poems, which could be the bastard love, children of
Journeys and interrupted journeys are a well-established theme in literature. Gustave Von Aschenbach's fateful journey back to Venice and his death began with lost luggage. So also with Salvatore Ala'
From A Very Small Something:Somewhere past the wrinkled maps, and underanother sun, where favourite earrings find new earsand missing marbles run, the hillsides madetheir marvelous shapes for a town c
The three sequences of Groundwork comprise a sophisticated reworking of European myth on the order of Yeats’s The Tower. The first is situated by an archaeological dig in modern-day Tunisia, the secon
When a woman discovers a fortune in the attic, she begins a pilgrimage that takes her to the knife-edge between blessing and curse. Two fatherless children think Mr. Crisander is nothing more than the
?Love is the finest,” writes Jaime Sabines, ?the most shuddering, / the most unendurable, silence.”Available for the first time as a complete selection in English, Love Poems presents Jaime Sabines’ p
Ryszard Kapuscinski is considered among the most important journalists of the 20th century.What was not known in the English-speaking world, however, was that Ryszard Kapuscinski was also a poet. I W
Luanda, Angola, 1990. Ndalu is a normal twelve-year-old boy in an extraordinary time and place. Like his friends, he enjoys laughing at his teachers, avoiding homework, and telling tall tales. But Nda
In this collection of essays, Foran visits places in Vietnam that have been 'colonized' by western war films, talks to Shanghai residents about their colossal city, and commiserates with the people o
In this essay collection, Henighan ranges across continents, centuries and linguistic traditions to examine how literary culture and our perception of history are changing as the world grows smaller.
A Few Things You Should Know About the Weasel, by the poet-laureate of Santa Barbara, ranges through philosophy, art and history?both global and domestic?to skillfully chronicle the darkness that is o
