Lucia Perillo’s hard-edged yet vulnerable poems attempt to reconcile the comic impulse — the humorous deflection of anxiety — with the complications and tragedies of living in a mortal, fragile “meat cage.” Perillo’s surgical honesty —...
No one would believe me but
at times I would choose
wartime in Saigon over
peacetime in Alabama.
For all the ten years of her life, HÀ has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by...
“The greatest Afrikaner poet of this generation. … No one elevated the Boer language to such pure beauty and wielded it so devastatingly against the apartheid regime.”—The New Yorker
This eclectic and generous work full of wisdom and wit...
Johann Wolfgang Goethe schrieb im Jahr 1786 sein Bühnenstück Iphigenie auf Tauris nach der Vorlage von Euripides’ Iphigenie bei den Taurern. Das zunächst in Prosa angelegte Werk wurde von ihm dann in Verse...
Johann Wolfgang Goethe schrieb im Jahr 1786 sein B?hnenst?ck Iphigenie auf Tauris nach der Vorlage von Euripides’ Iphigenie bei den Taurern . Das zun?chst in Prosa angelegte Werk wurde von ihm dann in Verse...
A mythological masterpiece about dedication and the disintegration of romantic affection.
In this magnificent epic poem, John Gardner renders his interpretation of the ancient story of Jason and Medeia. Confined in the palace of King Creon, and...
In Jeremiah, Ohio, poet Adam Sol reinvents the Biblical prophet and doomsayer Jeremiah for the present day, and sends him on an apocalyptic road trip through the rural United States with an everyman companion, Bruce. The mismatched pair is thrown...