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  • The Grove of the Eumenides

    New & Selected Poems

    by Tomas Venclova, Ellen Hinsey, Ellen Hinsey ...
    Translated by Diana Senechal, Rimas Uzgiris ...
    With The Grove of the Eumenides, the Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova affirms his place as one of Europe’s greatest living poets, the heir to Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Miłosz. Venclova’s masterful poetry upholds a vision of the world that enables us to endure the darkness of our time through his singular insights, ethical endurance and profound compassion. With classical grace, yet manifesting a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Magnetic North

    Conversations with Tomas Venclova

    by Tomas Venclova, Ellen Hinsey ...
    Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European tradition of works such as Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz and Aleksander Wat's classic My Century. Taking the form of an extendedinterview with Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova, the book interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature. Venclova, who personally knew Akhmatova, Pasternak, Milosz, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Consolations of the Forest

    Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga

    by Sylvain Tesson ...
    Translated by Linda Coverdale ...
    A journalist embarks on the adventure of a lifetime—living in a remote cabin in Siberia—in this Thoreau-esque meditation on escaping the chaos of modern life and rediscovering the luxury of solitude.“…wry, exuberant, and a perfect balm for anyone who dreams of running away to the middle of nowhere.”—San Francisco ChronicleNo stranger to inhospitable places, journalist Sylvain Tesson exiles himself ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems

    New Collected Poems

    by Tomas Transtromer ...
    Translated by Robin Fulton ...
    The collected poems of one of the world's greatest living writers, Tomas Transtromer, available in this comprehensive edition.In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the worldas the hand grips a sun-warmed stone.Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of Tomas Transtromer has had a profound influence around the world, an influence that has steadily grown and has now attained a prominence ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • An Inventory of Losses

    by Judith Schalansky ...
    Translated by Jackie Smith ...
    A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote IslandsA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Book of the YearWinner of the Warwick PrizeWinner of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's PrizeLonglisted for the International Booker PrizeEach disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • On the Marble Cliffs

    by Ernst Jünger, Maurice Blanchot ...
    Translated by Tess Lewis ...
    Now in a new translation, a darkly radiant fable about a pair of brothers, formerly warriors, whose idyll is shattered by an encroaching fascistic force.Set in a world of its own, Ernst Jünger’s On the Marble Cliffs is both a mesmerizing work of fantasy and an allegory of the advent of fascism. The narrator of the book and his brother, Otho, live in an ancient house carved out of the great marble ... Read more

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  • George Seferis: Collected Poems

    by Manolis Aligizakis ...
    Giorgos Seferis was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, in 1900. He attended school in Smyrna and finished his studies at the Gymnasium in Athens. When his family moved to Paris in 1918, Seferis studied law at the University of Paris and became interested in literature. He returned to Athens in 1925 and was admitted to the Royal Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the following year. This was the ... Read more

    $4.50 USD

  • The Collected Poems

    1956–1998

    by Zbigniew Herbert ...
    "Herbert's work in twentieth-century letters . . . rivals that of W. H. Auden or Elizabeth Bishop in its originality, imaginative breadth and humane vigilance." — The Washington PostA New York Times Notable Book of the YearThis outstanding new translation brings a uniformity of voice to Zbigniew Herbert's entire poetic output, from his first book of poems, String of Light, in 1956, to his final ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Microcosms

    by Claudio Magris ...
    Translated by Iain Halliday ...
    Amid wars, failed revolutions and the shifting of frontiers, the bit-part players often have the best tales to tell - an astonishing, genre-blurring travelogue from Italian master Claudio Magris.In the tiny borderlands of Istria and Italy, from the forests of Monte Nevoso, to the hidden valleys of the Tyrol, to a Trieste café, Microcosms pieces together a mosaic of stories - comic, tragic, ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems, 1968–1996

    by Joseph Brodsky ...
    A career-spanning collection of poetry from the Russian American author and winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize for Literature.Joseph Brodsky spent his life advocating for the place of the poet in society. As Derek Walcott said of him, "Joseph was somebody who lived poetry . . . He saw being a poet as being a sacred calling." The poems in this volume span Brodsky's career, which was marked by his ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Wild Peculiar Joy

    The Selected Poems

    by Irving Layton ...
    A Wild Peculiar Joy is Irving Layton’s poetic testament. Hailed as the great lyric poet, Irving Layton has come to be known as one of Canada’s most powerful, groundbreaking voices, an important and influential writer whose distinguished career spanned almost forty-five years. By turns passionate and grave, joyous and apocalyptic, his beautifully crafted poems are illuminated by a strong social and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Dancing Goddesses

    Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance

    by Elizabeth Wayland Barber ...
    A fascinating exploration of an ancient system of beliefs and its links to the evolution of dance.From Southern Greece to northern Russia, people living in agrarian communities have long believed in “dancing goddesses,” mystical female spirits who spend their nights and days dancing in the fields and forests. In The Dancing Goddesses, archaeologist, linguist, and lifelong folkdancer Elizabeth ... Read more

    $15.99 USD