"American Poetry Since 1950" is a new map of the territory, an array of known and unknown contemporary classics. It is full of strange texts and startling procedures, histories and natural histories, high lyricism and extended meditations-- extraordinary works that challenge our notions of what a poem ought to be. Since Whitman and Dickinson, most of the major poetry in the United States has been written against the literary establishments and prevailing canons of taste, and often far from the cultural centers. This is the first anthology in many years to gather the work from this continuing tradition of innovators and outsiders, presenting poets and poems that are still excluded from the academic collections. Opening with the last poems of the Modernist masters Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and H.D., the book follows through four generations of writers who have been the primary figures of the new poetries and poetics since 1950. With a historical afterword, complete bibliographies, and generous selections from each of the thirty-five poets, this anthology is the only available introduction to the poets connected with such groups and movements as the Objectivists, the Beats, Black Mountain, the New York School, the San Francisco Renaissance, and ethnopoetics.

Poems, in both English translation and the original Spanish, deal with fate, nature, language, intimacy, love, friendship, and the senses

Poems, in both English translation and the original Spanish, deal with fate, nature, language, intimacy, love, friendship, and the senses.

A visual celebration of Mexican crafts pairs full-color photography with essays by leading art historians, interviews with and profiles of top craftspeople, and tributes by leading writers, in a volume that includes coverage of Mexican ceramics, textiles, weavings, tinwork, lacquerwork, and more. 12,000 first printing.

A bilingual edition of the short prose poetry written by Mexico's most distinguished living poet in 1949-50

An anthology of interconnected nonfiction essays by the author of Works on Paper and Karmic Traces includes a poetic biographical evaluation of the prophet Muhammad and a meditative exploration of the universe titled, 'The Stars.' Original.

A unique collaboration by the late Mexican poet Octavio Paz and his wife, artist Marie JosT Pax, features a collection of twelve poems, accompanied by twelve pieces of art, appearing in a bilingual collection. (view table of contents)

The Nobel laureate offers a fascinating look at the people and landscapes of India, based on his years as an attache at the Mexican embassay and as Mexico's ambassador to India, offering a lyrical, evocative collection of essays on Indian history, culture, art, politics, language, and philosophy.

Collects twenty-four of Eliot Weinberger's writings describing his personal travels to the Atacama Desert, Iceland, and Hong Kong.

In an extraordinary montage of facts, soundbites, and testimonies, the author assembles an uncompromising and blackly comic narrative which permits the voices of war to speak for themselves, and allows the protagonists and the apologists to damn themselves in their own words.

Provides translations of more than two hundred-fifty poems by over forty poets, from early anonymous poetry through the T'ang and Sung dynasties. (view table of contents)