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Mary Baron's title Wheat Among Bones recalls that a sprig of wheat growing between crossed bones was a Renaissance emblem for hope. She has written a passionate and formal book which is a 'woman's song, ' a beautiful twentieth-century song that hopefully will help us survive our new noise and new silence.

Arturo Vivante has a special place in American literature. Although Italian by birth, with a degree in medicine, he came to the United States in the fifties and wrote in English. Vivante offers us a feast of stories, many published in The New Yorker. We are given a taste of Italy and of himself that nourishes our humanity and spirit as few contemporary writers can. Wonder and love seem his most dominating emotions. His work takes us into the h...

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Poems, in both the original Hebrew and English translation, deal with childhood, life in Israel, Jewish tradition, and history.

Concise poems take the reader through the fourth dimension, limbo, the past, and nature where we may meet angels, strangers, and ourselves.

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Allen Mandelbaum's long-awaited Savantasse of Montparnasse is a work of wonder, wit, and exhilarating originality. Of Mandelbaum's previous long poem, Chelmaxioms: The Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms of Chelm, James Wright said: ''A beautiful book: original, learned, comic in a way that only a master of many languages (like Joyce) can be comic, often lyrically lovely, and, finally, hauntingly sad. . . . I found myself startled by the extremely dense r...

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Mary Baron's title Wheat Among Bones recalls that a sprig of wheat growing between crossed bones was a Renaissance emblem for hope. She has written a passionate and formal book which is a 'woman's song, ' a beautiful twentieth-century song that hopefully will help us survive our new noise and new silence.

Originally published in Spanish in 1922, this was the last collection to be published in the lifetime of Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo. His poems attempt to elude European forms and return to Inca culture and language. This edition presents English translations alongside the Spanish originals.

Emily Fragos's poems are mysterious. Her songs make me confess to myself. In her poems, you find the God's honest truth like wildflowers. Her poems are ferocious and saintly (you must remember, one saint, Saint Julian, murdered his mother and father, not a problem with Emily). She is somehow self-born, which is my way of saying her poems are unique, singular, necessary--wonder-full poems, very good dogs." --Stanley Moss "Emily Fragos is a thin...

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¿Azriel writes with the kind of authority rarely found among modern poets, with strong echoes of Hayim Nachman Bialik, whose biblical poems have themselves become sacred texts.¿ ¿Howard Schwartz, author of Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism

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Zeus would cherish this book

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