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Title	Author	Description
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
The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems Stray Dog Cabaret	Catherine Ciepiela schmidt	Eight world-class twentieth-century Russian poets brought to new life in Schmidt's scintillating translations. A New York Review Books Original. Contributors: Honor Moore , Paul Schmidt
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
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.
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
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.
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 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
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
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