Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, newspaper stories uncomfortably close and getting closer... this ominous novel is Patrick Modiano's most no...

Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare's Roman plays – "Coriolanus", "Julius Caeser", and "Antony and Cleopatra" – in his landmark "Shakespeare's Rome" (1976). With "Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy", he now argues that these plays form an integrated tri...

For more than forty years, Paul Cantor's "Shakespeare's Rome" has been a foundational work in the field of politics and literature. While many critics assumed that the Roman plays do not reflect any special knowledge of Rome, Cantor was one of the fi...

Since his first collection of poetry appeared in 1953, Philippe Jaccottet has sought to express the ineffable that lies at the heart of our material world in his essential, elemental poetry. As one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of...

Following in the footsteps of minimalist poets such as Aram Saroyan, James Davies finds new ways of making poetry. "Stack", a form of "list poem", offers a range of surprising interventions and modular combinations that reinvent poetry.

Following her groundbreaking 2014 debut "An Aviary of Small Birds" ("technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak" – Observer), Karen McCarthy Woolf returns with Seasonal Disturbances. Set against a backdrop of ecological and emotional turbulence,...

"Set Thy Love in Order: New & Selected Poems" gathers the work of some thirty years, taken from Stephen Romer's four previous collections, along with a substantial selection of new poems. The title is a Dantesque imperative as old as the Trecento:...

Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always so. In "Sweet Science", Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor between literature and science to recover a tradition of Roma...

The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer Maria Rilke and Else Lasker-Schuler, as well as his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein famously wrote that whil...

A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and...