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Grief Lessons (Paperback) By Euripides Translated and with introductory essays by Anne 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. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Poems of the Late T'ang Edited and Translated by A.C. 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) Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Dante By Erich Auerbach Introduction by Michael Dirda An inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets and a brilliantly argued essay in the history of ideas. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

The Stray Dog Cabaret Translated by Paul Schmidt Introduction by Catherine Ciepiela Afterword by Honor Moore Eight world-class twentieth-century Russian poets brought to new life in Schmidt's scintillating translations. A New York Review Books Original. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Dime-Store Alchemy By Charles 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. Price: $14.21 (25% off)

Grief Lessons A new translation by Anne 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. Price: $14.96 (25% off)

Jejuri By Arun Kolatkar Introduction by Amit Chaudhuri A sequence of stunningly simple but haunting poems, Jejuri is one of the great books of modern India. Price: $9.71 (25% off)

The Inferno of Dante Alighieri New translation by Ciaran Carson 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. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam By Osip Mandelstam Translated from the Russian by Clarence Brown W.S. Merwin 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. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

W.H. Auden's Book of Light Verse Preface by Edward Mendelson Edited by W.H. 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. Price: $13.46 (25% off)

In Parenthesis By David Jones Preface by W.S. Merwin "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. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Shelley: The Pursuit By Richard 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. Price: $17.21 (25% off)

The Stuffed Owl Introduction by Billy Collins Edited by Charles Lee D.B. Wyndham 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. Price: $10.50 (25% off)

The New Life By Dante Alighieri Translated from the Italian by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Preface by Michael Palmer 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. Price: $12.71 (25% off)

Letters: Summer 1926 By Boris Pasternak Marina Tsvetayeva Rainer Maria Rilke Translated by Margaret Wettlin, Walter Arndt, Jamey Gambrell Preface by Susan Sontag Appendix and epilogue by Jamey Gambrell 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. Price: $14.96 (25% off)

Alfred and Guinevere By James Schuyler Introduction by John Ashbery 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. Price: $9.71 (25% off)

Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author By Edward John Trelawny Introduction by Anne Barton 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. Price: $14.21 (25% off)