"Tom was singular and luminous, as is his work. The leaves just burst from his fingers. He had that odd stance to the world and its lanugage that made whatever he wrote seem new and just discovered, like treasure hauled up into the sunlight from the ocean floor."
"In defiance of the precariousness of human existence on a minor planet revolving around a minor star, A Saturday Night at the Flying Dog is a celebration.... Marcia Southwick, with her expansive lines and insoucient voice, offers a gift of great good humor to weigh against what we now know to be the cosmic scale of things."
"Jon Loomis's poems veer deftly and ironically between the sacramental and the sordid, with a wonderful economy of expression and sinuousness of line."
Killarney Clary reduces the contemporary landscape to its essences and essentials, revealing the ways in which it is broken, unchartable, mysterious, and violent. Her language is unerring, her vision unique.
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.
Franz Wright was recognized as one of the leading poets of his generation even before he won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. For this edition, the poet has selected from his previous collections, in some cases making substantial revisions, and has added his newest poems. The result is exciting in its breadth, consistency, depth, and distinction.
Eugenio Montale, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was the inaugural poet of the FIELD Translation Series in 1978, when we published Charles Wright's memorable translation of
In pure lyrics and longer elegiac poems this great Hungarian poet inscribed not only his own sad fate but that of millions in an Eastern Europe that was only nominally "between the wars" during the '20s and '30s."
This new selection, drawing primarily on Rilke's extremely rich middle period, the first decade of the 20th century, and concluding with a selection from his late Sonnets to Orpheus, offers a clear, powerful, and contemporary Rilke.
Vanishing Lung Syndrome confirms Holub's special status as one of Europe's leading poets and as a rare mediator between scientific and literary modes of discourse. This book is darkly witty and mordantly accurate; it documents, among other things, the ignorance, folly and brutality abroad in our world. But it also brims with tenderness, humor, and occasional gleams of hope.
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.
Imagine a book of hours condensed into a book of minutes: that is the project of the compact lyrical prose poems found in Gemma Gorga's Book of Minutes, the first English-language translation of this emerging poet, widely known and loved in her native Catalonia yet little known outside it. The poems in Book of Minutes move seamlessly from philosophical speculation to aphorism, condensed narrative, brief love letter, and prayer, finding the metaphysical in even the most mundane. In the space of one or two paragraphs, they ponder God, love, language, existence, and beginnings and endings both large and small. In her openness to explore these and many other subjects, Gorga's leitmotif might well be "light." Carrying with them echoes of Wallace Stevens, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hans Christian Andersen, Francis Ponge, George Herbert, and Emily Dickinson, the poems in Book of Minutes are nonetheless firmly in the twenty-first century, moving in a single breath from the soul to diopters or benzodiazepine. In deft, idiomatic translation from Sharon Dolin, Book of Minutes also retains the original Catalan texts on facing pages.
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"--
Readers who have followed Jonah Winter's work in the pages of Field and other magazines, and who know his delightful first collection, MAINE, will welcome this lively and inventive volume. Winter's admirers, who include poets like Charles Simic, Charles Wright, and David Lehman (who selected MAINE for Slope Editions and wrote the introduction), emphasize his assimilation of the Surrealist tradition to an American landscape and a contemporary culture that become dreamlike, surprising, poignant, and hilarious in his capable hands. Objects and events we might never have thought capable of poetic treatment acquire grace, beauty, and even a certain immortality in this book. It becomes a stay against amnesia that constitutes an enterprise both comic and heroic. Selected from over 500 manuscript entries, this is the seventh winner of our annual contest. The next prize entrants are invited to submit in May 2004, and the prize winner will be announced by August.
Carol Moldaw explores new territory in poems that are thematically far-reaching and technically superb. The book includes three long sequences based on art and artifact in various stages of completeness: preliminary pen-and-ink studies, Turkish ruins, and, at the center, the site-specific art installation that gives the book its title and impetus
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