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Nikolai Duffy
The first comprehensive study of Rosmarie Waldrop’s work, this engrossing volume engages with all aspects of the poet’s work.
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Rosmarie Waldrop
A collection of poems where the author evolves her own mediums of address that suggests slipperiness in human emotion and in human speech.
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Features essays on modern poetry and translation. The author addresses considerations central to her life’s work: typical genres and ways of countering the conventions of genre; how concrete poets have…
The latest book of prose poems by one of America’s premier philosophical poets.
A philosophical tour de force melding astrophysics and grief by the American maestra of the prose poem
Once again poet and translator Rosmarie Waldrop pushes the boundaries and definitions of poetry, prose, gender, relationship, even language itself in her new volume of prose poem dialogues , Reluctant…
Three pivotal works conceived by the avant-garde poet as a trilogy and now together in one volume at last.
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A new poetry collection of startling beauty and thought by a great American poet.
An essential edition of a major avant-garde poet: Waldrop compels us to seek out new superlatives (Ben Lerner, Jacket)
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A novel set in Germany, 1926. Frederika, unhappy with her husband, takes his best friend, a Jew, for a lover, triggering her husband’s anti-Semitism and involving him in conflict with…
Just as the discovery of America in the fifteenth century forever altered the way Europeans viewed the world, so too did the theories of relativity and quantum physics radically alter…
Edmond Jabes
A meditative narrative of Jewish Experience and man’s relation to the world.
An intimate portrait of one of France’s most important writers by his translator.
Rosmarie Waldrop,Damien Lennon
Paul Celan
Paul Celan wrote formal prose reluctantly, and this is a collection of his sparse, illuminating writings on poetry and art, and the aphorisms that contribute to our sense of the…
A series of aphorisms and short meditations on the question of place and the loss of place in relation to writing and the space of the book.
Peter Weiss
A meticulously observed and macabre tale of hell on earth from the revolutionary German author of the famous play Marat/Sade
The death of Edmond Jabes in January 1991 silenced one of the most compelling voices of the postmodern, post-Holocaust era. Jabes’s importance as a thinker, philosopher, and Jewish theologian cannot…
The first anthology to span the oeuvre of the late writer Edmond Jabes, including pieces previously unpublished in English.
The death of Edmond Jabès in January 1991 silenced one of the most compelling voices of the postmodern, post-Holocaust era. Jabès’s importance as a thinker, philosopher, and Jewish theologian cannot…
Kornelia Freitag
Contemporary experimental poetry? By women? But is this women’s writing? The type of poetry that is central to this book has long been met with surprise, if not rejection, by…
Jacques Roubaud
Written in the years following the sudden death of Roubaud’s wife, Some Thing Black is a profound and moving transcription of loss, mourning, grief, and the attempts to face honestly…
Jean Daive
An arresting memoir of the final years and tragic suicide of one of twentieth-century Europe’s greatest poets, published on the centenary of his birth.
