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Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think An Invitation for Me to Think: Selected Poems of Vvedensky	Alexander Vvedensky Vvedensky	Vvedensky was co-founder with Daniil Kharms of one of the most obscure, yet fascinating, playful, and revolutionary Russian avant-garde literary movements, dubbed OBERIU. His avowed task was "the poetic critique of reason" and he claimed "time, death, and God" as the themes of his freewheeling poems. Contributors: Eugene Ostashevsky , Matvei Yankelevich
Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell Dime-Store Alchemy	Charles Simic Simic	“Dime-Store Alchemy…is the most sustained literary response thus far to Cornell’s boxes, montages, and films…incisive, freewheeling, dramatic—a mixture of evocation and observation, as lucid and shadowy as the imagination it celebrates…Dime-Store Alchemy is a meeting of kindred spirits that is itself a work of art.” —Edward Hirsch, The New Yorker
Songs of Kabir Songs of Kabir	Kabir Kabir	"Listen carefully,/Neither the Vedas/Nor the Qur'an/Will teach you this..." So begins a poem by Kabir, the legendary mystic who drew on the varied traditions of mediaeval India to create some of the most lasting verses in world literature. Indian poet and literary critic Arvind Krishna Mehrotra here offers new translations and scholar Wendy Doniger places them in historical context. Contributors: Wendy Doniger , Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Miguel Hernández Miguel Hernandez	Miguel Hernández Hernandez	A career-spanning collection of one of the greatest Spanish poets of the 20th century. “Miguel Hernández sang in his deep voice and his singing was as though all the trees were singing.” —Octavio Paz Contributors: Don Share
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
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides Grief Lessons	Anne Carson Carson	"Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief." Celebrated contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson presents new translations of four plays by Euripides.
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.
Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author	Edward John Trelawny Trelawny	In 1822, after having been discharged from the British navy, deserted by his wife, and as good as disowned by his father, the thirty-two year old Edward John Trelawny set off for Italy to make the acquaintance of his hero, Lord Byron. Contributors: Anne Barton
Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell Dime-Store Alchemy	Charles Simic Simic	Full of unexpected riches, Dime-Store Alchemy is both an entrancing meditation on the nature of art and a perfect introduction to a major American artist by a peer.
Alfred and Guinevere Alfred and Guinevere	James Schuyler Schuyler	Schuyler has a pitch-perfect ear for the children's voices, and the story, told entirely through snatches of dialogue and passages from Guinevere's diary, is a tour de force of comic and poetic invention. Contributors: John Ashbery