"Geographies of Philological Knowledge" examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andres Bello (1781-1865), a Venezuelan grammarian, edito...

"The Last Goodbye" is a book of pictures and poems inspired by the author's experiences during World War II in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland, and as a prisoner at Auschwitz, in the Kristianstadt labour camp in Silesia and finally liberation at Belsen. De...

<p>Ralph Ellison may be the preeminent African-American author of the twentieth century, though he published only one novel, 1952's "Invisible Man". He enjoyed a highly successful career in American letters, publishing two collections o...

Neil Powell's seventh Carcanet collection explores the deep roots of identity: family histories we inherit, memories we carry, the casual decisions and wrong turnings that add up to make us who we are. At the heart of the book is a compelling narrat...

From his first wartime collection evoking a generation's experience of a country made strange by blackouts and air raids, the "vivid allegorical / Reality of gun and hangar", to the consolatory wisdom of the "Last Poems" of 1993, Roy Fuller was a poe...

From July 1741 to March 1744, Samuel Johnson composed speeches based on the actual debates in Parliament for publication in the "Gentleman's Magazine". Because it was then illegal to print any account of parliamentary activities, the magazine publish...

Composed during a period of extended bed rest, Gabriele D'Annunzio's "Notturno" is a moving prose poem in which imagination, experience, and remembrance intertwine. The sombre atmosphere of the poem reflects the circumstances of its creation. With hi...

Although Brian Aldiss cannot be pigeon-holed as a science fiction writer there is no doubt that he is a master of the art of conceiving other worlds. His fertile imagination has created intriguing and often shocking narratives which have become class...

Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time....

This collection of poetry is inspired by the author's lineage as an Inupiaq Eskimo woman with family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska. The poems' syncopated cadences and evocative images bring to life the exceptional physical and cultural co...