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Title	Author	Description
Jejuri Jejuri	Arun Kolatkar Kolatkar	A sequence of stunningly simple but haunting poems, Jejuri is one of the great books of modern India. Contributors: Amit Chaudhuri
The Inferno of Dante Alighieri Inferno Of Dante Alighieri	Ciaran Carson Alighieri	This is a truly original retelling of Dante's epic journey that will surprise and renew the twenty-first-century reader's faith in the art of translation.
The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam	Osip Mandelstam mandelstam	Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. Contributors: Clarence Brown, W.S. Merwin
W.H. Auden's Book of Light Verse W.H. Auden's Book of Light Verse	W.H. Auden Auden	Auden's great, transformative anthology, assembled when his own work was at its most provocative and searching, is above all a rethinking of the history of poetry in English.
In Parenthesis In Parenthesis	David Jones Jones	"This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": with quiet modesty, David Jones introduces one of the grandest imaginative efforts to grapple with World War I.
Shelley: The Pursuit Shelley	Richard Holmes Holmes	Here we have the real Shelley at last—radical agitator, atheist, and apostle of free love, as well as a brilliant and uncompromising poetic innovator.
The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse Stuffed Owl	D.B. Wyndham Lewis, Charles Lee Lewis	There is bad Bad Verse and good Bad Verse. It has been the preoccupation of the compilers to include in this book chiefly good Bad Verse. Contributors: Billy Collins
The New Life New Life	Dante Alighieri Dante	The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. Contributors: Michael Palmer , Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The New Life New Life	Dante Alighieri Dante	The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. Contributors: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Letters: Summer 1926 Letters: Summer 1926	Boris Pasternak, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marina Tsvetayeva Pasternak	Letters: Summer 1926 takes the reader into the hearts and minds of three of the twentieth-century's greatest poets at a moment of maximum emotional and creative pressure. Contributors: Jamey Gambrell , Margaret Wettlin, Walter Arndt, Jamey Gambrell