Product Description: Jules Supervielle (1884-1960) was born to French parents in Montevideo, orphaned within a year of his birth, and grew up in Uruguay and France. He spent the Second World War exiled in Uruguay, afflicted by ill health and financial ruin...read more

Product Description: Many of the poems in Moniza Alvi's Europa relate to ancient and modern traumas, including enforced exile, alienation, rape and `honor killing'. Its centrepiece is a re-imagining of the story of the rape of Europa by Jupiter as a bull...read more

Product Description: The troubled and troublesome souls are characters in the `Further Adventures of the Souls' sequence, whose escapades touch different facets of life and death, exploring tantalizing dualities through delicious, surrealist transformations...read more

Product Description: Alvi's poems are ""vivid, witty, and imbued with unexpected and delicious glimpses of the surreal-this poet's third country""-Maura Dooley. In these poems her delicately drawn fantasies transform the familiar into strange evocations of the joys and tensions of relationships, of love, intimacy, frustration, jealousy, and paranoia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this wonderful second collection, Moniza Alvi steps boldly into the territory she made her own in The Country at my Shoulder, a book which made her one of the chosen "New Generation" poets. These poems, many based on visits to her birthplace, Pakistan, are at once beautiful, thoughtful, and quite marvelous...read more