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Other Walk is a series of autobiographical pieces by the master of reflection and slow timeThroughout his life, Sven Birkerts, one of the country's foremost literary critics, has carved out time for himself-to walk, to swim, to read, to contemplate. Now in his late fifties, he has clocked up many thousands of hours of reflection. It shows in his prose, which proceeds at a refreshingly deliberative pace as it draws the reader into his patterns ...

*Winner of the prestigious Norwegian Booksellers' Prize**A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection (Holiday 2011)*A glorious evocation of a Norwegian childhood in the early sixties by an author short-listed for the 2009 Dublin IMPAC AwardLittle Finn lives with his mother in an apartment in a working-class suburb of Oslo. Life is a struggle to make ends meet, but he does not mind. When his mother decides to take a lodger to help pay...

Night garden, moon calendar, soft mint scent. Warm wind, silent. Gold, silver debris. " --from "Yennecott" Jeffrey Yang's second collection of poems is an exploration of the various lines--horizon line, time line, blood line, poetic line--beyond which so much vanishes from sight, from memory. With historical documentation, lyrical association, and artistic virtuosity, Yang creates a collage of elegies, losses that are private and those th...

Winner of the Robert Fagles Prize for contemporary poetry in translationEléna Rivera's translation of Bernard Noël's The Rest of the Voyage is at once original and remarkably faithful-indeed, its originality lies in the care and music the translator has brought to her commitment to follow Noël's forms as closely as possible. Rivera succeeds beautifully in setting the rhythms of the French original into English. The succession of poems has a fl...

Of my generation I most admire Daniel Sada, whose writing project seems to me the most daring." -Roberto BolañoThis Rabelaisian tale of lust and longing in the drier precincts of postwar Mexico introduces one of Latin America's most admired writers to the English-speaking world. Demetrio Sordo is an agronomist who passes his days in a dull but remunerative job at a ranch near Oaxaca. It is 1945, World War II has just ended, but those bloody ev...

Now in paperback, the winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awardso many of the best days seem minor forms of nearness that easily fall among the dropseed: a rind, a left-behind -from "no picnic" In these brilliant poems from one of contemporary poetry's most intriguing, singular voices, D. A. Powell strikes out for the farther territories of love and comes back from those fields with los...

The not-at-all-everyday new poetry collection by Albert Goldbarth, twice winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award I brought a book of many words to an emptiness in my heart, and I shook them out in there, to fill it. In my time I wrote this very thing. In your time you read it. -from "What We Were Like" Virtuoso poet Albert Goldbarth returns with a new collection that describes the wonders of everyday people-overprotective parents, onl...

The U.S. debut of leading U.K. author Szalay, named one of "The Daily Telegraph's" 20 best British novelists under 40. Set in 2006, this novel follows James, a one-time film producer who now runs a shady horse-racing-tips operation, as he pursues both money and a married woman.

*Winner of the 2012 James Laughlin Award*The second collection by Catherine Barnett, whose "poems are scrupulously restrained and beautifully made" (Edward Hirsch, The Washington Post)Everyone asks us what we're afraid ofbut children aren't supposed to say.We could put loneliness on the list.We could put the list on the list, its infinity.We could put infinity down.--from "Fields of No One to Ask"In Catherine Barnett's The Game of Boxes, love ...

An innovative and fascinating new version of Dante Alighieri's Inferno as it has never been renderedStopped mid-motion in the middle Of what we call a life, I looked up and saw no sky-Only a dense cage of leaf, tree, and twig. I was lost. --from Canto IAward-winning poet Mary Jo Bang has translated the Inferno into English at a moment when popular culture is so prevalent that it has even taken Dante, author of the fourteenth century epic poem,...

Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, this warm and intelligent debut is a poignant reminder of a dramatic moment in Eastern European history. "Burying the Typewriter" is Bugan's childhood memoir of her exasperating father and his arrest and persecution during Romania's Ceausescu years.

No Animals We Could Name by Ted SandersThe winner of the Bakeless Prize for Fiction, a bold debut collection The animals (human or otherwise) in Ted Sanders's inventive, wistful stories are oddly familiar, yet unlike anyone you've met before. A lion made of bedsheets, with chicken bones for teeth, is brought to life by a grieving mother. When Raphael the pet lizard mysteriously loses his tail, his owners find themselves ever more desperate to ...

Winner of the 2011 Bakeless Prize for Poetry, the debut collection by Jo Sarzotti I have learned three things in the north:The sea has a lung, The dead do not eat grass, norDo they return.--from "The Origin of Salt"In these poems, Jo Sarzotti portrays a personal geography ranging from the desert of the title to the far north, from the mother to the father. In between are found ocean floor, mountain peak, jungle, beach, ancient and modern citie...

A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of Dreams of My Russian SummersIn The Life of an Unknown Man, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia's past and present.Shutov, a disenchanted writer, revisits St. Petersburg after twenty years of exile in Paris, hoping to recapture his youth. Instead, he meets Volsky, an old man who tells him his extraordinary story: of surviving ...

The long-awaited fourth collection by one of America's foremost poetsO Lord of indirection and ellipses, ignore our prayers. Deliver us from distraction.Slow our heartbeat to a cricket's call. --from "Prophecy"Pity the Beautiful is Dana Gioia's first new poetry book in over a decade. Its emotional revelations and careful construction are hard won, inventive, and resilient. These new poems show Gioia's craftsmanship at its finest, its most matu...

New poetry by Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef, one of the major voices from the Arab worldThe country we love was finishedbefore it was even born.The country we did not love has claimedthe blood left in our veins. -from "A Desperate Poem"Nostalgia, My Enemy collects some of the best of Saadi Youssef's most recent poems from the last decade, since the ongoing American-led war in his home country of Iraq. In direct, penetrating language, translated fro...

A haunting, enigmatic novel about a woman who is given a second chance--and isn't sure whether she really wants it. Lennon continues his profound and exhilarating exploration of the surreal undercurrents of contemporary American life.

The new book by Leslie Adrienne Miller, whose poems "are delightfully eclectic, learned and wise" (Ted Kooser)If the face is a christening in flesh, the boy of him is its opposite, raising the tent of bones in whichhe will harbor all the starry anomaliesthat a knowledge of God cannot undo. -from "Y"Y is poet Leslie Adrienne Miller's book of the looming child, the son, the cipher, the letter for which a math problem seeks a solution. Collaging ...

A triumphant achievement that showcases 25 years of outstanding work by one of our true masters of the short story. Stern's stories go from the unlikely old Jewish quarter of the Pinch in Memphis to a turn-of-the-century immigrant community in New York and beyond.

Matthea Harvey's "Modern Life" introduces a new voice that tries to exist in the gray area between good and evil, love and hate. In the central sequences, "The Future of Terror" and "The Terror of the Future, " Harvey imagines citizens and soldiers at the end of their wits at the impending end of the world. Her prose pieces and lyrics examine the divided, halved self in poems about centaurs, ship figureheads, and a robot boy. Throughout, Harve...