Longlisted for the National Book Award A selection of poems that addresses the quotidian and the global, from one of our most essential poets.Drawing on two decades worth of award-winning poetry, Marilyn Hacker’s generous selections in A Stranger’s Mirror include work from four previous volumes along with twenty-five new poems, ranging in locale from a solitary bedroom to a refugee camp.In a multiplicity of voices, Hacker engages with translations of French and Francophone poets. Her poems belong to an urban world of cafés, bookshops, bridges, traffic, demonstrations, conversations, and solitudes. From there, Hacker reaches out to other sites and personas: a refugee camp on the Turkish/Syrian border; contrapuntal monologues of a Palestinian and an Israeli poet; intimate and international exchanges abbreviated on Skype―perhaps with gunfire in the background.These poems course through sonnets and ghazals, through sapphics and syllabics, through every historic-organic pattern, from renga to rubaiyat to Hayden Carruth’s “paragraph.” Each is also an implicit conversation with the poets who came before, or who are writing as we read.A Stranger’s Mirror is not meant only for poets. These poems belong to anyone who has sought in language an expression and extension of his or her engagement with the world―far off or up close as the morning’s first cup of tea.

Product Description: Longlist finalist, 2015 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation Where Are the Trees Going? brings together some of the latest work of the poet and novelist Venus Khoury-Ghata in a manner that showcases her central concerns in a wholly novel and provocative format...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Jewish Studies. In 2009, prompted by the Israeli siege of Gaza, Palestinian- American poet Deema Shehabi and Jewish-American poet Marilyn Hacker started a correspondence. It took the form of responding to each other's poems...read more

Product Description: Multi-award winning poet Amina Said was born in Tunis and has lived in Paris since 1978. Her work, though translated into German, Turkish, Arabic, and Italian, has only seen snippets translated into English. Poet Marilyn Hacker has edited and translated a survey of Said's poems from the last ten years in a fully bilingual anthology...read more

Product Description: “[Hacker] powerfully brings her formal mastery and her political sensibility together.”―American Poet In Names, Marilyn Hacker juxtaposes glimpses of contemporary lives with dialogues undertaken in signal poetic voices. Using her signature wit, passion, and mastery of received and invented forms, she convinces us to believe in a world made possible by language―prescient, playful, polyglot, and often breathtaking...read more

Product Description: Hédi Kaddour’s poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic—of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, or human cruelty. With Treason, the award-winning poet and translator Marilyn Hacker presents an English-speaking audience with the first selected volume of his work...read more

Product Description: Praise for Marilyn Hacker: "How piercing the duet we're offered between Marilyn Hacker and the reality principle. Reality saying, it’s impossible, something's always sacrificed: you can't be so merry and so raw; so learned and earthy; so gut-wrenching, so danceable at once...read more

Product Description: Marie Étienne's poetry is inspired by the synthesis of the contemporary and the classical, the tragic and the mundane―the quotidian transformed by the tragic prisms of myth and history. Through a profound and complex reinterpretation of the sonnet form, the book reflects, as in a mosaic of shattered mirrors, many of the writer's ongoing preoccupations: the relationship of East and West; an eroticism at once physical and cerebral; the interaction of poetry and prose; the strange blending of the everyday and the foreign, in which the most "exotic" journeys become ordinary and the most ordinary displacements partake of the strange...read more

Product Description: The new collection by the Lebanese poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata, the author of She Says, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awardit could only have been elsewherethe sun's anger overturned the countrymen who came from the wounded side of the river knockedon our bordersI say men so as not to say locusts ―from "Nettles"In Nettles, Vénus Khoury-Ghata brings her impulses for lyric poetry and for stark narrative together into four enchanting sequences...read more

Gathers 25 years' work by one of the most elegant and pertinent poets in English. This title contains work from eight books, including an excerpt from the erotic verse novel 'Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons', and a work written in the shadow of hegemonic empire.

A hard-hitting but poetic autobiographic account of growing up in war-torn Beruit introduces readers to a young man who is gradually being distanced from his family as the city falls apart around him. Original.

Product Description: Claire Malroux’s lyrical poetry sings in discord with French Symbolist and Surrealist traditions. This is a book of extraordinary beauty: “love songs,” hard-earned belief and disbelief. She does all this through observation of the natural world, language, and the human spirit...read more

Product Description: One of our strongest poets of conscience confronts the dangerous new century with intelligence, urbanity, and elegiac humor. Marilyn Hacker's voice is unique in its intelligence, urbanity, its deployment of an elegiac humor, its weaving of literary sources into the fabric and vocabulary of ordinary life, its archaeology of memory...read more

Product Description: "One of the finest French poets of his generation, Emmanuel Moses presents here his first selection of poems in English translation. We see this protean writer equally at home in the aphorism and the lyric as in the narrative and the mixed sequence...read more

A wonderful translation of the Lebanese poet by a well-respected American poet covers themes of sex, grief, death, and barrenness in a bilingual anthology of poetry. Original.

Product Description: The first three books of one of our best poets, including her National Book Award-winning volume Presentation Piece, plus Separations and Taking Notice. The wonder of Marilyn Hacker's poems...is that she insists upon the rawness of experience and the metamorphosis of form with equal fervor and makes them both speak with the same voice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Lebanese writer Vénus Khoury-Ghata, who lives in France and has won many of France’s major literary prizes, blends French surrealism with Arabic poetry’s communal narrative mode in three stunning poetic sequences. Here brilliantly translated from the French by poet Marilyn Hacker, the English-speaking reader has rare insight into another world, another dimension...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A ninth anthology of poetry by a winner of the National Book Award, Lenore Marshall Prize, and Poets' Prize celebrates the diverse passages of life, along with the community of friends, the courage of those living with terminal illness, and the mysteries of life and death. Reprint.

Malroux, a French poet, recounts her childhood and her father's death in the Nazi concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen. (view table of contents)