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The title sequence is justly famous as one of the major pieces of literature to come out of the Holocaust. It appears here with a new selection of Abba Kovner's work spanning his forty-plus years as one of Israel's leading poets. The noted American-Israeli poet Shirley Kaufman had the privilege of working directly with Kovner on these versions in the years before his death.

Mark Neely's riveting second collection

This prize-winning poet's most adventurous work yet

This prized collection of Russell Edson's prose poems, featuring his own favorites from seven prior collections, constitutes some of the most original American art of this century. This is the book of choice for both new and committed fans of this imaginative poet.

Even though he was an important founder of modernism, companion to Picasso, Modigliani, Apollinaire, and the early Surrealists, Max Jacob has remained a somewhat neglected and little-known figure. Now this delightful and utterly original poet has been given a detailed and careful presentation in English.

Our first version of this selection from one of Eastern Europe's major figures sold out. The new version adds two sequences--"Give Me Back My Rage" and "Heaven's Ring"--as well as some previously unpublished sections of the justly famous series, "The Little Box." Simic and Popa are a perfect match.

Luis Bunuel called Peret "the quintessential surrealist poet." Benjamin Peret is a poet like no other; his irreverence and incandescent imagination remain fresh and funny, and they are perfectly captured in this inspired, idiomatic translation.

This first book-length collection of Eich's poems in English makes available a poet who was a soldier and prisoner of war and then began to resurrect his native tongue as a language for poetry. These poems were translated over a period of fifteen years, often in consultation with the author until his death in 1972.

The first comprehensive English translation of one of postwar Italy's most important poets

"An original volume of poetry by the author whose previous book, Tryst, was selected as one of two finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry"--

"A searing translation of the poems of a prolific Lebanese writer who has always straddled two cultures, the Arabic and the French. Hacker luminously brings to life Khoury-Ghata's intimate, mysterious, and unique voice."

An anthology of essays by a scintillating company of poets, exploring the terrain of contemporary poetics, the writing process, and the necessity of poetry in the modern world.

The last poems of this major Greek poet are tinged with sadness and loss, but they also hum with vitality and an odd note of hope.

"Wright's sensitive translation of Campana's

Winner of the 2011 FIELD Poetry Prize. "Like the seventeenth-century Dutch painters who divided the space of their framed canvases into repeated geometries of rectangles and squares and light, Mark Neely writes poems that play four-square with poetry and with the heart. And like those Dutch interiors, his poems are at once intimate and timeless." Angie Estes

Start, Jean Gallagher's third full-length collection, turns to the world of Greek mythology, using the figures of Demeter and Persephone to explore the mysteries of motherhood, loss, grief, and renewal. Her brilliant concision and riveting music bring the ancient narrative sharply into the present, transforming it to a vision that feels thrillingly contemporary and personal.