Product Description: Remember this, the poet tells himself as he races his little girl: what is a memory that anticipates itself / a recollection / that becomes / the ground on which the present plays. And we follow, drawn along a golden thread between father and daughter that is at once binding and unwinding, the reweave of every Charlotte's Web...read more

Product Description: Poetry. With art by Marc Shanker. "It is rare to find a poet so attuned to silence, that time—and space—between words, which for Paul Pines is 'the abyss / of mind-before-thought.' His practice is to listen for patterns in the silence, which turn to whispers and then into these wise poems...read more

Product Description: Poetry. With art by Wayne Atherton. "The sea's endlessness, its glittery surfaces, the often scruffy island life of the Bahamas are wonderfully recorded in Paul Pine's FISHING ON THE POLE STAR. Bright-scaled marlin populate the text, as do Wayne Atherton's mysteriously beautiful collages...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "As Paul Pines moves through two cities he reminds us that 'we go where we must to find / what we need.' And what he finds is plenty—plenty in all senses and for all the senses. From poems that hang out in the crazy costumes, poignant hilarities, and irreverent reverences of Mardi Gras, to those that fly with hermes over the roofs of Paris, explore light with Monet and Pissarro, and walk graveyards in the wake of Apollinaire—this book brims, seethes, teems, with qi, duende, life...read more

Product Description: "Perhaps the most admirable element of Gelman's poetry is the unthinkable tenderness he shows . . . calling upon so many shadows for one voice to lull and comfort, a permanent caress of words on unknown tombs."—Julio CortázarAs Juan Gelman's name begins appearing with regularity on lists predicting Noble-Laureate-deserving poets, his work has also begun to appear in English...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "In these beautifully crafted poems Paul Pines takes us on a dizzying ride through mythological and religious thinkers, through science and philosophy. It is the quest of a man trying to hear the 'music / beneath the music' that he hopes, doubts, believes is there—DIVINE MADNESS...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "Infused with an eerily adept understanding of Latin American history and culture dating from the 15th century to modern times, their collective duende, REFLECTIONS IN A SMOKING MIRROR will come to stand as a monumental work and as a companion piece to the epic Gabriel García Márquez novel One Hundred Years of Solitude...read more

Product Description: Poetry. For most of the 1970s, Paul Pines owned and operated the Tin Palace, a jazz club that hosted figures like Kurt Vonnegut and Martin Scorsese, and gave expression to the most notable jazz innovators of that time. The club was honored by the Tribeca Center for the Performing Arts as a "lost jazz shrine," and featured in Perfect Sound Forever as a venue that "...read more

Product Description: Set in New York's Lower East Side in the 1970's, when it was fast becoming the heart of the cultural underground, jazz club owner Pablo Waitz, takes us on a journey in search of his partner's killer. If The Tin Angel offers a murder to be solved, a world of crime to be explored, it also offers a search for other truths...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "This evening I'm surprise/ anew/ by the way light/ alludes to// an exile// wherein/ a world of which/ I cannot speak/ is glorified"--"Pont L'Archiveche." Praise for Paul Pines' "Breath": ".the poems in `Breath' constitute a heartfelt, extended meditation on the transporting effects of everyday phenomena, how the psychic wormholes that allow instantaneous travel along out internal galaxies hide just under the next memory, the next sentence, and beneath them all, the All itself--unknowable, perhaps, but in Pines' poetry, nearly imaginable"--American Book Review...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

'English-only edition of poems written from exile, prison, and on the run by the Salvadoran revolutionary whose life and word urged love as well as change. Selected from 10 of his collections including two posthumous manuscripts, but none are from Poemasclandestinos (1980). The vital force of the intimate, conversational Spanish challenges the translators. Introductory essays by Ernesto Cardenal, Claribel Alegrâia, and Hardie St. Martin recommend work for the classroom and the general reader'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/