Product Description: One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2016"Cortázar's verse is more traditional than his fiction, but his style and themes are in harmony across genres: eccentric, mystical, full of animals but deeply human. Cortázar is a people's poet, accessible from every angle, and his position as a titan of the Latin American boom is indisputable...read more

Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. In these hybrid writings—a mixture of memoir, prose poetry, personal essay, travel journal, and spiritual meditation—Stephen Kessler synthesizes a lifetime of experiences in language of extraordinary concentration, vividness, and lyricism...read more

Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. One of the most versatile writers of his generation, Stephen Kessler has distinguished himself over the last forty years as a poet, critic ("certainly the best poetry critic in sight," according to Lawrence Ferlinghetti), translator, novelist, and a wide-ranging journalist...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "Stephen Kesseler's SCRATCH PEGASUS captures the poignancy of the human drama in poems as great as Ferlighetti's observing and honoring young lovers and aging poets recalling their youth. Amazing sonnets paint miniature portraits of iconic characters from his past while longer poems which themselves are music and art praise musicians and artists who have inspired him...read more

Product Description: First published in 1968, when the author was seventy, Poems of Consummation is Vicente Aleixandre’s intimate, philosophic, densely compressed lyric engagement with old age and the mystery of death. The poems are intense, mostly brief, elemental in their imagery (stone, ocean, wind, fire), and they address, in sometimes gnomic terms, the unknowable—mainly the paradoxes of memory: the simultaneous absence and presence of remembered love and the lover no longer living...read more

Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. Art. Music. Kessler's lens is wide but his focus is sharp as he surveys, with clarity and fresh understanding, both famous and unsung figures of contemporary culture. Selected from more than thirty years of journalism, THE TOLSTOY OF THE ZULUS includes 55 essays on such diverse topics as the creative repercussions of September 11, the art of the letter, a trip to Disneyland, Google's Universal Library, the Watts Towers, Marlon Brando, Charles Manson, Bob Dylan, Luis Buñuel, J...read more

Product Description: “In these memories and landscapes, in these notes toward the history of his sensibility, there is great objectivity: the poet attempts only to illuminate, with an almost impersonal light, something very personal: a few moments of his life...read more

Product Description: Nonfiction. Literary History & Criticism. Essayist for more than thirty years in Northern California's liveliest periodicals, Stephen Kessler here presents a selection of his deeply informed and informative writings on poets, poetry, and translation...read more

Product Description: In the United States, Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) is known mainly for his novel Zazie dans le metro, which was made into a film by Louis Malle, for Excercises in Style, and for being the founder and one of the most important members of the literary movement known as Oulipo...read more

Product Description: While Cernuda’s verse is vivid testimony to various aspects of his biographical itinerary, it is in his prose poems that he traces more explicitly an outline of his life’s journey. Reviewing this work, Octavio Paz wrote: “In these memories and landscapes, in these notes toward the history of his sensibility, there is great objectivity; the poet doesn’t set out to fantasize, or to lie to himself or anyone else...read more

Product Description: As the translator writes in his introduction: "These are not aphorisms in the classical sense of philosophic gemstones cut and polished to epigrammatic perfection. They are more like thoughts-in-progress from the notebooks of a radical modernist poet trying to regain his bearings after a consciousness-shaking encounter with Soviet socialism...read more

When the bodies of lost men wash ashore in a 1942 Greek village, its local women claim the bodies as their husbands and fathers despite their unrecognizable state, and a battle of wills ensues between the local police and the women. Reprint.

Product Description: Poetry. Moving through a great range of moods and modes over twenty-four years of writing, yet unified by an unmistakable voice--lyrical, colloquial, ardent, irreverent--TELL IT TO THE RABBIS is a generous revelation of Stephen Kessler's heteroformalist poetics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Visually stunning photography of the ancient Incan city in Peru is accompanied by Pablo Neruda's epic poem 'Heights of Machu PIcchu' in both the original Spanish and an English translation by Stephen Kessler.

Product Description: Poetry. Widely acclaimed as a translator, essayist, critic, editor, and journalist, Stephen Kessler is first of all a poet, whose work has appeared in small press publications across the U.S. since the late 1960s. AFTER MODIGLIANI is his fifteenth book and his first collection of poems to be published in twenty years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looks at the triumphs and tribulations of the Chiat/Day advertising agency, and shows a wide variety of the ad campaigns they created for their clients