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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 met...

Marianne Boruch, one of the most thoughtful and searching of contemporary poets, here draws from her four previous collections, two of which (Moss Burning and A Stick That Breaks and Breaks) were published by Oberlin College Press, and adds a group of twenty-five new poems to make a volume that is truly impressive in its range and authority. As Stephen Behrendt has put it: "Boruch's is a poetry about making visible what would else be invisible...

Marianne Boruch, one of the most thoughtful and searching of contemporary poets, here draws from her four previous collections, two of which (Moss Burning and A Stick That Breaks and Breaks) were published by Oberlin College Press, and adds a group of twenty-five new poems to make a volume that is truly impressive in its range and authority. As Stephen Behrendt has put it: "Boruch's is a poetry about making visible what would else be invisible...

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In this deeply innovative and beautifully human book, Ralph Burns explores the vivid relation between American jazz and American poetry. In the long title poem he plays wide open, without a mute, as Red Allen advises. The result is inclusive and exhilarating, a structure that keeps on opening and opening.

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.

The Tunnel selects from nearly three decades of writing by the perversely unique Russell Edson, who occupies a closet in the house of American poetry that most readers (and writers) dare not even open.... A magnificent book.

An anthology of essays by a scintillating company of poets, exploring the terrain of contemporary poetics, the writing process, and the necessity of poetry in the modern world.

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.

Among the works by which the times we live in will be remembered and known.

Novica Tadic¿, born in 1949, has lived most of his life in Belgrade. One of the most respected Yugoslavian poets of his generation, Tadic "weaves poetry whose images are visible and abstract. A labyrinth of masterful short poems." (World Literature Today) Here masterfully translated by Yugoslavian-born poet Charles Simic.

A brilliant translation of one of the greatest single collections of the twentieth century, Montale's gathering of his work from 1940 to 1956.

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

These poems, by privileging the lyric in their intention, open up a new direction in the American prose poem

The title sequence is justly famous as one of the major pieces of literature to come out of the Holocaust. It appears here with a new selection of Abba Kovner's work spanning his forty-plus years as one of Israel's leading poets. The noted American-Israeli poet Shirley Kaufman had the privilege of working directly with Kovner on these versions in the years before his death.

One of the strongest things I have read in ages. Timothy Kelly writes poems rich with music, intelligence and compassion. They make great moves, which should be no surprise, since they often rise from the deep terrain of the physical form, the body, into all the layerings and elevations of thought and existence.

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Timothy O'Keefe was awarded the 2010 FIELD Poetry Prize for THE GOODBYE TOWN, described by Editor David Walker as a complex and multilayered collection, deeply intelligent and humane, beautifully balanced in its sly wit and elegant lyricism.... He has a fresh and distinctive voice. This is O'Keefe's first book.

The highly anticipated new book from the Pulitzer finalist

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.