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Coral Bracho
A moving poetry collection from one of the most significant Mexican writers since Octavio Paz, Bracho finds tenderness, humor, and a kind of bravery in her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s.
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Forrest Gander
Mojave Ghost, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Forrest Gander, is a "a novel poem," taking us to his birthplace in the Mojave Desert and his current northern California home, where tumultuous…
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A Mexican road novel of love, hate, drugs, and the Mexican Revolution.
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Among the most gifted and accomplished poets of his generation (Mark Rudman). The three long poems in Eye Against Eye convey the wrought particulars of intimate human relations, perceptions of…
Started in 2009, IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. In its ten-year anniversary in November 2019, 30 famous poets from various countries will be…
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The poets featured in this volume are Antonio Gamoneda, Olvido Garcia Valdes, Miguel Casado, Marcos Canteli, Sandra Santana, Benito del Pliego, Julia Piera, Ana Gorria, Pilar Fraile Amador, and Esther…
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A travelogue that employs diverse settings and styles of poetry.
Science & Steepleflower is a breakthrough book for Forrest Gander, a poet whose richness of language and undaunted lyric passion land him in traditions running from Emily Dickinson and Gerard…
A new collection by one of America’s most respected young experimental poets.
An unforgettable, sensual novel by one of the most gifted and accomplished poets of his generation (Mark Rudman).
Poet Forrest Gander’s mesmerizing series of poems - hinging around a dance schematic - that captures and extends Eiko & Koma’s performance with lyrical intensity and vividness
Forrest Gander’s first book of poems since his Pulitzer finalist Core Samples from the World: a startling look through loss, grief, and regret into the exquisite nature of intimacy
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An exciting new book about renewal by the winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Pablo Neruda
This stunning collection gathers never-before-seen poems, found by archivists in boxes kept at the Pablo Neruda Foundation in Chile in 2014 presented here in Engllish and Spanish alongside full-colour reproductions…
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Pulitzer Prize winning poet Forrest Gander responds to the provocative photographs of Jack Shear.
The elements are timeless and fundamental-a male nude and a piece of black linen-and the photographic…
Gander uses geology, and his training as a geologist, as a means for exploring what it is we stand on and for - emotionally, psychologically, and politically. His poems and…
A heartbreaking, unforgettable collection by the great Mexican poet Coral Bracho about her mother’s Alzheimer’s, exquisitely translated by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander
Gozo Yoshimasu
For the first time in English, a selection from the highly acclaimed Japanese poet, photographer, performance artist, and filmmaker
Neruda’s lost poems, never before translated, are presented in a Spanish-English edition and illustrated with full-color reproductions of handwritten originals.
Neruda’s lost poems, never before translated, are presented in a Spanish-English edition and illustrated with full-color reproductions of handwritten originals
Pura Lopez-Colome
A Lannan Translation Selection
Beautifully translated by the award-winning American poet Forrest Gander, the work of highly esteemed Mexican poet Pura Lopez-Colome is, with this important volume, available in the…
Shuri Kido
A collection of poems by Shuri Kido, translated by Tomoyuki Endo and Forrest Gander –
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Sublime and delightfully observant, this poetry collection by renowned American poet Forrest Gander playfully extends the dances of Japanese performance art…
Kiwao Nomura
A collection of Japanese poetry that makes unpredictable leaps of association to explore themes such as sex, loss, and memory. It features poems that appear in English on one page…
A gorgeous, wide-ranging volume of poetry and essays by Forrest Gander, studded with the work of three great photographers.
Jaime Saenz
Jaime Saenz is arguably the greatest Bolivian writer of the twentieth century. His poetry is apocalyptic, transcendent, hallucinatory, and brilliant. This title offers a translation of Saenz’s work, The Night…
Mark Levine
An exploration of the rhythms and forms of memory. It is set in the border regions between natural and cultivated states, childhood and adulthood, past and present.
Joshua Clover
Takes as its subject the troubled sleep of late modernity, from the grandeur and failure of megacities to the retreats and displacements of the suburbs. This book’s action takes place…
Alejandra Pizarnik (New Directions)
A beautifully produced and exquisitely translated edition of French poems by the best exponent of the poetry of introversion and metaphorical delirium (Italo Calvino)
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Drawing on four decades of work and including new poems published here for the first time, this selection of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s poetry displays the extraordinary luminosity characteristic of her style-its…
Water is quotidian, ubiquitous, precious, and precarious. With their roots in this element, the authors of Water’s Edge reflect on our natural environment: its forms, textures, and stewardship.
One hundred years after his birth, Pablo Neruda’s poetry is as vital and beloved as ever. This collection presents fifty of the most essential poems by one of history’s greatest…
New translations of Neruda’s most important poems, gathered to celebrate the centennial of his birth.
