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Letters to Felician Ingeborg Bachmann

Poems Sappho

The Peninsula Julien Gracq

 

Ten Thousand Lives: Maninbo, Volumes 26-30

Born in 1933 in a small village, Korean poet Ko Un grew up in a Japanese-controlled land that was soon to experience the horrors of the Korean War. He became a Buddhist monk in 1952, and began writing in the late 1950s. Ten Thousand Lives (Maninbo in Korean) is his major, ongoing work, which began in prison with a determination to describe every person he had ever met or heard of. It tells the stories of many figures from Korean history, as well as children and poor people, who, without his poems, would have vanished into oblivion. Ten Thousand Lives: Maninbo, Volumes 26–30 (2023) is about the 1980 Gwangju Democratic Uprising. We previously published poems from Volumes 1–10 (2005) and Volumes 21–25 (2021), as well as Songs for Tomorrow (2008) and Himalaya Poems (2011).

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August Stramm: 32 Poems

The German Expressionist writer August Stramm (1874–1915) began his career as a postmaster aboard luxury liners, traveling between Hamburg and New York, where he made long stays. "[A]round the year 1912, literature overtook him like a sickness…. A demon awoke in him,” as his daughter, Inge, put it. Instead of his previous romantic poetry, he began to write poems and plays in "a strange new style." Despairing because no one would publish him, he was on the verge of destroying this work when his wife, Else, a romance novelist, suggested that he contact the editor of the magazine Der Sturm. Stramm's influence on avant-garde German literature was enormous. The 32 Poems in this book are his largest collection in English.

 

Contradicta: Aphorisms (back in print)

Inspired by the notion of the dialectic in the work of philosophers such as Hegel and Bachelard, Nick Piombino created his idea of paired aphorisms he calls Contradicta, recasting the classic form of the great aphorists such as La Rochefoucauld, Blake, and Emerson in a contemporary context. The book is illustrated by Toni Simon.

 

Plain Song and Angel Heurtebise
A French/English Bilingual Edition

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) was one of the most influential artists of the French Surrealist avant-garde, best known for films like The Blood of a Poet (1930), Beauty and the Beast (1946), and Orpheus (1950). In his 30s, he wrote two long poems, Plain Song and Angel Heurtebise, about his love for Raymond Radiguet (1903–1923), a novelist and poet who died at age 20.

 

Lucebert: The Collected Poems, Volume 3
A Dutch/English Bilingual Edition

Lucebert (1924-1994) was affiliated with the art movements Cobra (or CoBrA: from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam) and the Fiftiers (de Vijftigers). He won numerous national and Amsterdam-based prizes, and, to this day, he remains an important voice within the Dutch literary canon. Lucebert: The Collected Poems, Volume 3 (of four planned by translator Diane Butterman) covers the years 1965-1982.

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Hell Has No Limits (back in print)

With its stark atmosphere, powerful characterizations, and dazzling alterations of perspective in time and gender, José Donoso's early masterwork, Hell Has No Limits, anticipates the qualities of better-known works by this Chilean magic-realist. He called it his best work: "the most perfect, with fewest errors, the most complete." Author of A House in the Country, The Obscene Bird of Night, Coronation, This Sunday, and Curfew, Donoso is one of the great Latin American "boom" novelists. He was awarded the international prize of the America Award in 1996, shortly before his death.

 

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