Not for sale in Estonia! A foundational classic of Surrealist literature, "The Leg of Lamb" brings together the arch-Surrealist Benjamin Peret's short prose: a smorgasbord of automatic writing and fantastical narratives employing everything from th...

The consolidation of law and the development of legal writing during Spain's Golden Age not only helped that country become a modern state but also affected its great literature. In this fascinating book, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria explores the work...

One hundred years after his death, Tolstoy still inspires controversy with his notoriously complex narrative strategies. This book explores how and why Tolstoy has mystified interpreters and offers a look at his most famous works of fiction.

"Letters to Madeleine" collects for the first time in English the remarkable letters and poems sent by French poet Guillaume Apollinaire to his fiancee Madeleine Pages during World War I. Stationed in the trenches of Champagne, this man of letters wh...

Kei Miller's work was acclaimed by the distinguished Jamaican writer Olive Senior as "Some of the most exciting poetry I've read in years... An extraordinary new voice singing with clarity and grace". "A Light Song of Light" sings in the rhythms of r...

When Pedro Salinas's 1933 collection of love poems, "La voz a ti debida", was introduced to American audiences in Willis Barnstone's 1975 English translation, it was widely regarded as the greatest sequence of love poems written by a man or a woman,...

"The Living Fire" brings together a rich selection of the poetry of Edward Hirsch, from seven books of poetry spanning thirty-five years of writing. A poet who is also a passionate advocate of poetry, and avoracious reader, Hirsch infuses his poetry...

"Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics" explores the intersection of poetry, national life, and national identity in Poland and Russia, from 1917 to the present. As a corrective to recent trends in criticism, acclaimed translator and critic Clare Cavanagh...

Aptly described by Gavin Ewart as "a writer of great intelligence and vitality who can command a very powerful wry political comment", E. A. Markham was a leading light in British Caribbean writing. He was a poet, novelist and short story writer, ess...

The first part of Thomas McCarthy's book collects his recent short lyrics. Part Two daringly recreates a forgotten period in the Anglo-Irish world: a Big House in the years between the World Wars, a FitzGerald ("Geraldine") family that has tilled the...