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Marcel Proust, Brian Nelson (trans.)
The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century.
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Brian Swann
Brian Swann’s new collection ranges from real to surreal, from long short stories to short short stories, to prose-poems long and short, concluding with an essay on the sacred.
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In his first fiction collection in many years, Swann has widened his scope to include short fiction, longer fiction, non-fiction, prose-poems, memoirs, essays etc., which Harold Jaffe has called succinct…
The poems that make up Brian Swann’s rich and constantly rewarding book Snow House are muscular and masterful. He has a marvelous ear and the ability to write poems that…
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A collection of Native American songs and poems, researched and annotated by Brian Swann.
Walk with this book to find some of the unexpected places where poetry can flourish. Discover poetry growing where it can, in the infinite and in the microscopic: in the…
When Europeans first arrived on the American continent, Algonquian languages were spoken from the northeastern seaboard through the Great Lakes region, and across much of Canada. The rich and varied…
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An anthology of Native American literatures draws on the work of more than two hundred tribes across the United States and Canada and provides information on historical and cultural contexts.
Offers a dazzling introduction to Native American myths, stories, and songs drawn from previous collections by acclaimed translator and poet Brian Swann. With a general introduction by Swann, Sky Loom…
An anthology of essays on the translation of Native American languages and literatures.
Storytelling and singing is a vital part of community life for Native peoples. This book gathers stories and songs from many Native groups in North America - including the Inupiaqs…
Features a collection of more than one hundred Native American songs that celebrate the rich and vibrant oral traditions of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Some songs included in…
Winner of the 2015 Autumn House Press Poetry Contest, selected by Dorianne Laux.
Here be divagations, wanderings through Covid-stricken Manhattan streets woven together with accounts and excursions through the mind's spaces, memories real and imagined, incidents and adventures comic and sad in a…
Brian Swann (The Cooper Union)
Brian Swann's poems, moving in their candor, read as though they have always been there, too.
His sharp, bright imagery affirms the unique beauty of our world and explores its invisible mysteries.
Twenty-seven Native American writers describe their lives and art in a compelling collection of personal and family histories illuminated by verse and song, story and narrative, all fed by the…
Presents an anthology of autobiographical accounts, by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second edition features an introduction by the editors and biographical sketches for…
Euripides
Peter Burian and Brian Swann re-create Euripides’ play in a translation accompanied by critical introductions, stage directions, a glossary of mythical Greek terms, and a commentary on difficult passages.
Rocco Scotellaro
This selection of poetry presents–in a bilingual edition–what the translators regard as the very best poems of Rocco Scotellaro (1923-1953). Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the…
Lucio Piccolo
In Piccolo’s poems we meet a Sicily latent in the country of the tourist guides and the history books, but it was Piccolo far more than, say, his cousin Lampedusa…
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Andrea Zanzotto
Born in Pieve di Soligo (Treviso) in 1921, Andrea Zanzotto is the author of five books of poetry, a number of critical essays, and a book of prose. His work…
Tudor Arghezi
Born in Bucharest of peasant stock, Tudor Arghezi (1880-1967) was awarded Romania’s National Poetry Prize in 1946 and the State Prize for Poetry in 1956. The translators of this volume…
Marcel Proust
Swann in Love is the story of Charles Swann and his infatuation with Odette de Crecy and the revealing psychological turmoil his relations with her involves. A study in jealousy…
Amelia Lynne Swann,Nana Swann
Amelia and Nora are superheroes from the planet Pink. They love using their powers to help others. When Joey tells the girls that the villain Perat and his evil band…
Andrea Zanzotto is widely considered Italy’s most influential living poet. This book includes the very best poems from fourteen of his major books of verse and a selection of thirteen…
