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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 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
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 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
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
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.
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
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.
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