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Title	Author	Description
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
Dante: Poet of the Secular World Dante	Erich Auerbach Auerbach	An inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets and a brilliantly argued essay in the history of ideas. Contributors: Michael Dirda
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.
Grief Lessons (Paperback): Four Plays by Euripides Grief Lessons	Euripides Euripides	"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. Contributors: Anne Carson
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.
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.
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
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 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
Poems of the Late T'ang Poems of the Late T'ang	A.C. Graham Graham	A groundbreaking anthology that includes the work of some of the most famous poets of China. "You never forget the moment you first encounter a book that turns out to be a treasure for life. Especially works that open up new worlds."—Michael Wood, The Independent (UK)