Product Description: Poetry. Translated from the Yiddish by Faith Jones, Jennifer Kronovet, and Samuel Solomon. Foreword by Edward Hirsch.

Product Description: A comprehensive selection of one of our most beloved poet’s rich and signifi cant body of work alongside a gathering of “brilliant, deeply pleasurable” new poems (Booklist).

Product Description: A rich and significant collection of more than one hundred poems, drawn from a lifetime of “wild gratitude” in poetry.In poems chronicling insomnia (“the blue-rimmed edge / of outer dark, those crossroads / where we meet the dead”), art and culture (poems on Edward Hopper and Paul Celan, love poems in the voices of Baudelaire and Gertrude Stein, a meditation on two suitcases of children’s drawings that came out of the Terezin concentration camp), and his own experience, including the powerful, frank self-examinations in his more recent work, Edward Hirsch displays stunning range and quality...read more

Product Description: In these powerful and “achingly beautiful” (Booklist) poems of self-examination and openness from one of the cornerstones of the poetry world, Edward Hirsch assesses “the minor triumphs, the major failures” of his life, and the people and places that have colored it.

A celebratory anthology of the sonnet traces its development through more than five centuries, in a volume that evaluates the sonnet's rise and fall throughout history as well as the numerous ways in which esteemed poets interpreted the sonnet form. 25,000 first printing.

On the occasion of the poet's one-hundredth birthday, this masterwork is at last available in its entirety in English. When, on the eve of the Second World War, Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963)—Turkey's most acclaimed and popular poet—was sentenced to twenty-eight years in prison for his Communist beliefs, he embarked on the writing of his epic, Human Landscapes from My Country. This 17,000-line verse-novel is made up of a traveler's vivid encounters with Turkish men and women from all walks of life. In colloquial language, Hikmet stages their private hopes and griefs, and through these many human dramas, he documents Turkey's historic transformation into a secular republic. Human Landscapes from My Country is "lively...cinematographic...[able] to capture the least scholarly reader" (Denise Levertov). Human Landscapes from My Country was published in an abridged English-language version by Persea Books twenty years ago. This new edition marks a major event in contemporary world literature.

A collection of poetic works honoring one of literature's most celebrated birds includes pieces by thirty master poets, including Keats, Milton, and Shakespeare, in a volume that demonstrates how the nightingale has inspired a spectrum of emotions and artistic expressions.

A collection of revised and expanded writings culled from the author's popular Washington Post Book World 'Poet's Choice' column demonstrates how poetry responds to world challenges and introduces the work of more than 130 writers. By the author of How to Read a Poem. Reprint.

A collection of poems by the twentieth-century American professor best known for his post-World War II writings reflects the spiritual and autobiographical themes of his works, his life-long search for wholeness, and his influence on his subsequent generation's poets and readers.

A new anthology of poetry by the author of Earthly Measures offers a haunting study of human fallibility, love, and the fleeting nature of life in which he describes his reactions to reading classic poetic texts, prays for his Azheimer's-afflicted father, and reveals the transcending nature of art and the troubled history of his Jewish faith. Reprint.

Writers whose lives and work were inspired by the late fiction editor at The New Yorker share intimate essays and other writings about his contributions as a mentor, an author, and a literary correspondent, in a collection that includes contributions by such figures as Alice Munroe, Anthony Hecht, and John Updike. 10,000 first printing.

In an exploration of the sources and mysteries of artistic creativity, the author examines the concept of 'duende,' the power of creativity that results in a work of art, as he looks at how different artists respond to the creative impulse.

A new edition of an early work by the author of On Love presents a series of poems that deal with the themes of art and artists, loneliness, night, nature, heroism, death, love, hope, and sadness. Reprint.

Collects the poetry and correspondence of the English poet. (view table of contents)