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This is a generous, long-overdue presentation of the major Brazilian poet Manuel Bandeira (1886-1968) to the English-speaking...  Read More >>

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Now that the collective death of mankind has become a possibility, no other thought can remain unimpaired. Harry...  Read More >>

In popular songs called imayo, the Japanese of the Heian period (794-1185) expressed their concerns about love,...  Read More >>

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The Rime petrose, Dante's powerful lyrics about a woman as beautiful and as hard as a precious stone, are generally...  Read More >>

This is a brilliant and challenging book, explicitly calling into question the recent desire to rewrite the Renaissance....  Read More >>

Boleslaw Lesmian (1877-1937), the outstanding Polish poet of the twentieth century, occupies a unique place in world...  Read More >>

In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing...  Read More >>

Scholars, authors, bloggers and fans come together in a celebration of the works, and worlds, of Georgette Heyer...  Read More >>

Translated into English for the first time, The Life of Walatta-Petros (1672) tells the story of an Ethiopian saint...  Read More >>

The first ever 'new and selected' full-length book by poet artist Jeanette Powers, Sparkle Princess vs. Suicidal...  Read More >>

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One of the most popular of the Hellenistic schools of philosophy in antiquity, Stoicism flourished for some five...  Read More >>

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In Revolution and Repetition, Jeffrey Mehlman surveys the question of the relation between Karl Marx's writings...  Read More >>

Toward the end of the year A.D. 8, the emperor Augustus publicly sentenced the poet Ovid to exile in remote and...  Read More >>

Suffering from wanderlust like many of his countrymen, Mark Twain had the good fortune to be paid to offer his observations...  Read More >>

These essays provide original reflections and new evidence for the lives and work of an outstanding medieval couple,...  Read More >>

We pick flowers, knowing they will die. We press flowers, hoping they will survive. Reading a poem is not...  Read More >>

On 30 May, 2016, at 1.52 am, I woke from a dream and scribbled... I am the mother who always loved you Seventy...  Read More >>