Martenson's poems are narratives of thinking. They are landscapes in which abstract concepts have the presence and force of physical objects--you may...
With linguistic sophistication and a great deal of self-irony and humor, Rinck sets in tension the most disparate ideas “along with their...
«About Champollion I knew: that he did not go to Egypt with Napoleon, that he never saw the actual Rosetta stone, only more or less bad copies,...
bob, a brave little guy (joker, operator, sheer energy?) bops in the manner of a video-game through the ways a poem inhabits sense or nonsense,...
Fiction. An actress of sorts, a woman recalls her childhood, longs for her absent lover, imagines traveling overseas, and wanders through gardens and...
An intimate portrait of Paul Celan in his last, increasingly dark years. Paul Celan and Jean Daive translate each...
There are 8 sets of 8 poems. All poems within a set follow the vowel pattern of a particular passage from Shakespeare....
An “I” between languages. A text between the genres of poem and novel. 3 cities, 3 poems, 3 philosophers. The Austrian...
The poems in this book send intense probes into the depth of emotion, and at the same time play out an elliptical music of...
Ernst Jandl's poems are so engrained in the German language that they are impossible to translate. This volume present an...
Gerhard Roth burst on the German-speaking scene in the early 1970s with three fiercely experimental novels, among them our...
Gerhard Rühm is a radical experimenter, a restless explorer of traditions and genres, atomizing their elements in order to recompose...
A poem cannot stop death, even a child's, cannot home in on silence. But here the very language burrows into the earth,...
Love stories? Configurations of encounters, shifting relations, power games, failures. The tension between the closeness of...
Four adults, a child and a cat travel from Germany to Bordeaux. Harig tells their adventures in humorous permutations,...
All Esther Tellermann's poetry - from the first line of her first book: "time had the slowness of not-yet-asleep"...
This first book of poems juxtaposes contemporary physics, personal and public history, and a passion for the sound of words with the...
Tacitus tells, in his Annals, how the Romans were defeated by "a simple woman." On a chariot with...
The myth of Diana and Actaeon forms the matrix for this poem which tells of Eros and Language, and of dismemberment. It...
Written while Jean Grosjean was a prisoner in the Second World War, Terre du temps, his first book, was published by...
While questioning the possibility of communication (“Who’s able to decipher the thoughts that link two separate...
Secret of Breath is a suite for two voices — a voice from outside and a voice from inside, a voice of the living and a voice of the dying...
Perspective Would Have Us enters dreams, films, foreign countries as so many fields of radiation with the power to mutate the...
An introductory biography places our heroine in Rome, in the turbulent 4th century, when the ...
These parallel reports from two writers long together (and occasionally collaborating) show characteristic...
An extraordinary first collection. With precision and exquisite craftsmanship, the poems ...
Unlike Adam ("the old Stalin of language"), Pastior is not out to name animals or anything else. "Talking...
Secret Histories maps the nexus of history, language and political consciousness through the lens of a supposed but elusive...
A woman wanders from room to room, or ventures outside, and throughout the ensuring procession of locations, ruminations,...
The poems of this new collection are concerned with the interplay of domestic life — its companionship, its fecundity, its...
An attempt to measure, in language, the impact and implications of a continuous day on a single life. Various articulations...
A meditative landscape populated and depopulated by real and allegorical episodes. It jolts us out of our habits and into...
Varieties of Religious Experience explores the indeterminate "margin" of residual ...
An eye wanders off course because a visual stimulus has lept from the picture frame, insisting on the journey into words....
A satirical novel, narrated by Gottlieb Otto Liebgott, a retired German doctor who lives in Cincinnati. It centers on...
A magazine issue with poems by Ann Cotton, Franz Josef Czernin, Michael Donhauser, Ute Eisinger, Daniel Falb, Hendrik...
Dwelling examines the relationship between space and the events and objects that exist within it. Using T.S. Eliot's favored device of objective...
Brief Under Water is a sequence of 55 short passages that uses prose narrative as a design element in a larger lyric structure. The title refers to...
Emitting short, probing clicks, the cave swiftlet finds its way through dark corridors. The bird adjusts its position...
As Harry Mathews has said, Wiebe is "unsettlingly original." The satires of Skyblue's Essays explode with...
