Product Description: The Book of Blam, Aleksandar Tišma’s “extended kaddish . . . [his] masterpiece” (Kirkus Reviews), is a modern-day retelling of the book of Job. The war is over. Miroslav Blam walks along the former Jew Street, and he remembers...read more

Collects poems, prayers, and incantations reflecting the Indian philosophies in North, Central, and South America

Product Description: A collection of new and selected essays by the Pulitzer Prize–winner and former Poet Laureate.In addition to being one of America’s most famous and commended poets, Charles Simic is a prolific and talented essayist. The Life of Images brings together his best prose work written over twenty-five years...read more

Product Description: “It takes just one glimpse of Charles Simic’s work to establish that he is a master, ruler of his own eccentric kingdom of jittery syntax and signature insight.” -Los Angeles TimesFor over fifty years, Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant and innovative poetic imagery, his sardonic wit, and a voice all his own...read more

Product Description: American Odysseys is an anthology of twenty-two novelists, poets, and short-story writers drawn from the shortlist for the 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature. Including Ethiopian-born Dinaw Mengestu, the recipient of the Prize; Yugoslavian-born Téa Obreht, the youngest author to receive the Orange Prize in Fiction; and Chinese-born Yiyun Li, a MacArthur Genius grantee, what these authors all have in common―and share with US Poet Laureate Charles Simic, who has contributed a foreword―is that they are immigrants to the United States, now excelling in their fields and dictating the terms by which future American writing will be judged by the world...read more

Product Description: Within the bibliography of Serbian-American poet Charles Simic, El mundo no se acaba marks a clear before and after. The only book of prose poems ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, these poems mark Simic’s artistic growth, towards poems with a finger on the pulse of American popular culture in all of its voices and wants...read more

Product Description: Now in PaperbackIn Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America’s great artists. Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned...read more

Product Description: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has done more than anyone since Czeslaw Milosz to introduce English-language readers to the greatest modern Slavic poets. In Oranges and Snow, Simic continues this work with his translations of one of today's finest Serbian poets, Milan Djordjevic...read more

Product Description: Charles Simic was seven years old when he, his mother, and his brother crossed the mountains of Slovenia on foot to the Austrian border, leaving behind communist Yugoslavia to eventually reach Paris, where they would wait to be reunited with his father, who had fled to the United States...read more

Product Description: THE UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDITION OF THIS VITAL ANTHOLOGY, WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR CHARLES SIMIC When The Horse Has Six Legs was first published in 1992, as war and hatred tore through the Balkans, this anthology of Serbian poetry became a landmark for some of the most compelling poetry in the contemporary world...read more

Product Description: Novica Tadic is Serbia’s leading poet and the linguistic heir to Vasko Popa. With this translation, US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winner Charles Simic brings the full range of Tadic’s dark beauty to light:I dream how on a flat surfaceI set down knives of various shapes and sizes...read more

In his eighteenth collection, Charles Simic, the superb poet of the vaguely ominous sound and the disturbing, potentially significant image, moves closer to the dark heart of history and human behavior. Simic understands the strange interplay between ordinary life and extremes, between reality and imagination, and he writes with absolute purity about those contradictory but simultaneous states of being or feeling: "Everything about you / My life, is both / Make-believe and real." A profoundly important poet for our time, and a stunning book. SECRET HISTORYOf the light in my room:Its mood swings,Dark-morning glooms,Summer ecstasies. Spider on the wall,Lamp burning late,Shoes left by the bed,I'm your humble scribe. Dust balls, simple soulsConferring in the corner.The pearl earring she lost,Still to be found. Silence of falling snow,Night vanishing without trace,Only to return.I'm your humble scribe.

Product Description: The fifteenth U.S. Poet Laureate collects his latest essays on subjects ranging from poetry to his childhood years in Belgrade. In these essays, Charles Simic delves into the lives and work of poets, novelists, artists, and playwrights, beginning with his own experiences before turning to those of Christopher Marlowe, Odilon Redon, W...read more

Product Description: “Nabokovian in his caustic charm and sexy intelligence, Simic perceives the mythic in the mundane and pinpoints the perpetual suffering that infuses human life with both agony and bliss. . . . And he is the master of juxtaposition, lining up the unlikeliest of pairings and contrasts as he explores the nexuses of madness and prophecy, hell and paradise, lust and death...read more

A compilation of sixty of the author's best known poetic works honors his appointment as the fifteenth Poet Laureate of the United States. By the author of The Voice at 3:00 A.M. and My Noiseless Entourage. Original.

Thomas Campion (1567-1620) was born in London and educated at Cambridge. He studied law at Gray's Inn and was a poet and composer - a contemporary not only of Shakespeare, Drayton, Marlowe and Jonson, but also of Byrd, Morley, Gibbons and Dowland. In 1591, five of his songs appeared in the unauthorised version of Sidney's 'Astrophel and Stella'.

Product Description: Herman de Coninck, Belgium’s leading poet for many decades, appears in English in a single volume for the first time. Witty, tender, trenchant, wise, de Coninck’s poems range from playful, terse love lyrics to darkly ironic, somberly truthful observations about human experience...read more

Product Description: A volume in the Poets on Poetry series. Poets on Poetry collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.An eclectic array of essays, reviews, and memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles SimicMemory Piano is the latest contribution to the Poets on Poetry series from the brilliant and prolific Charles Simic...read more

A visual tour of the life and work of an internationally acclaimed nonfiction filmmaker includes explorations of his documentaries about such regions as 1961 West Papua, 1965 Nigeria, and 1985 India, in a volume that incorporates more than five hundred photographs into a selection of essays, meditations, and journal entries.

Offers a new collection of poems that plumbs the ordinary American experience for spiritual insights, wit, and historical relevance.

A new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The World Doesn't End includes pieces that are placed in such settings as a farmhouse porch, a used-clothing store, and an empty station platform, in a volume that evinces a central theme about the sense of an individual life lived in a crowd of literal and imaginary presences.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet offers a collection of imaginative and sensual erotic poems, beautifully and graphically illustrated in an electrifying demonstration of literary pleasures, creating a perfect Valentine's Day surprise. 10,000 first printing.

Presents a collection of love poems written by poets born in the 1960s and 1970s, including David Berman, Nick Flynn, Lisa Jarnot, Hoa Nguyen, Juliana Spahr, Karen Volkman, and Kevin Young.