"Without Ritsos' eloquence, Greeks would have forgotten how to name all those things that are there before their eyes." — Pantelis Prevelakis
This long poem is a nuanced and moving account of the poet's time in exile, in which everyday events...
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The highway became the Red Sea.
We moved through the storm like a sheer valley.
You drove; I looked at you with love.
— from "Storm"
One of the most gifted and readable poets of his time, Adam Zagajewski is proving to be a...
Men carry a mattress retrieved
from a dumpster past the flooded
foundations of an unfinished
high-rise, an old woman catches
a pigeon in the folds of her dress
the dead smile and rise from swimming
pools or stand at attention
on stamps. The...
Maninbo (Ten Thousand Lives) is the title of a remarkable collection of poems by Ko Un, filling thirty volumes, a total of 4001 poems containing the names of 5600 people, which took 30 years to complete. Ko Un first conceived the idea while confined...
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius,...
If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and was nominated for the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
As a paleontologist lies in a coma, his fiancée tells him how things would be different if...
Honored as one of the "100 Notable Books of 2012" by The New York Times Book Review" The poems in On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths are taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional reflection while avoiding the usual difficulties of...
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 —...
Знаменитая баллада Роберта Стивенсона "Вересковый мед" на английском...
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The Village on Horseback: Prose and Verse, 2003-2008
The Village on Horseback features mesmerizing new work from the author of Samedi the Deafness and The Way Through Doors, one of the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2009. This collection of new pieces by experimental writer Jesse Ball is a...