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What artist was better suited to Poe's dark tale than Alice Neel! She loved the story, would even giggle and shriek at readings. Along with two color lithographs, she included an etching of a skull-like self-portrait which was originally a pen and ink drawing, and 2 smaller black & white text illustrations. Raphael Soyer, in his afterword, tells of his… Read more about this item

"He is the poet of rebellion...the greatest of all," said Albert Camus of Arthur Rimbaud. Rimbaud had staked everything on expressing God and the infinite in this poetry. When this wouldn't work, he resolved, in A Season in Hell, to leave God's love behind and to keep his personal freedom at all costs. But Rimbaud is unable to remake life,… Read more about this item

Imagine, if you will (and Borges did), a man who takes up the task of re-living the life of Cervantes, step by step, as if no time had passed, in order to write Don Quixote again for the twentieth century, word for word, but not referring to the original. Or imagine scholarly reviews of books which you might wish exist… Read more about this item

This important work by Paul Celan includes a photogravure by Gisèle Celan- Lestrange of her 1967 "Echo d'une terre". Todesfuge In German with English translation, justly hailed as brilliant and nuanced by The New York Review of Books by John Felstiner. Included is a CD of Paul Celan speaking his poem. One photogravure by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange. Translation and… Read more about this item

Layers of magic weave together characters from prehistoric goddess to Little Boy Blue and a sleeping pig! From fanciful to utterly charming and much, much more is this tale from John Ashbery. For the llustrations, Ashbery chose his friend, the artist and fellow New Yorker, Jane Freilicher. "Persimmon!" There it is: the color of the leather label for the book… Read more about this item

Atop the North Face lies the gigantic "White Spider," a formidable formation of perpetual ice and snow. It is the configuration, not Eiger's height, that makes the mountain such an appalling challenge. "From that perpetual, fearfully steep field of frozen snow nothing but ice emerges to fill gullies, cracks, and crevices," writes Harrer, who, with three companions in… Read more about this item

Octavio Paz "was able to cull from the language of the avant-garde the very best to create a Latin-American poetic language," said Yale professor Gonzales Echevarria. Three Poems are printed in the original Spanish in red alongside English translations in black. Included is, "The Skin of the World, The Sound of the World" Paz's tribute to Robert Motherwell. "… Read more about this item

The Museum of Modern Art honored Frank O'Hara with a memorial edition of his poetry illustrated by artists who knew and loved him—foremost among them, William de Kooning. De Kooning made his drawings on mylar which he then presented to the Museum. A quarter of a century later, the mylar drawings were transferred to lithographic plates and printed under the supervision… Read more about this item

When in the summer before the 1917 October Revolution Boris Pasternak wrote My Sister–Life, it aroused wild enthusiasm and established him as a genius of Russian poetry. As brilliant, is this English translation by the poet, Mark Rudman. In the original Russian the poems were strictly rhythmical and written mostly in a classical meter. Most of them rhyme. Rudman has translated… Read more about this item

In 1890, Joseph Conrad shipped out from Brussels to the Congo, to rescue a Monsieur Klein, ailing agent of a Belgian trading company dealing in ivory. In Heart of Darkness, it is Marlow who ships out from Brussels and sails up the Congo to rescue Mr. Kurtz. Kurtz had come with the noble aim of enlightening the natives. Instead, they… Read more about this item

"Il Miglior Fabbro" is how T. S. Eliot termed Ezra Pound –"the best craftsman." This volume is all the more remarkable for the fact that Pound knew no Chinese. Yet these translations of eighteen medieval poems, mainly by Li Po (A.D. 70I-762), are acknowledged masterpieces. Pound worked from notes by Ernest Fenollosa, a great American scholar of… Read more about this item

When Baudelaire published the first edition of Les Fleurs du mal in 1857, the subject matter and the style touched off a scandal. The resulting outcries from some critics and his defense by others led to Baudelaire's trial for obscenity. He was ordered to pay a 300-franc fine and exclude six poems from the book. (Even his mother thought the… Read more about this item

Artists of both the eye and the soul here combine their genius to give us a magnificent picture of Macchu Picchu. The ancient and mysterious citadel built by the Incas has piqued human imagination since its discovery in the last century. The grandeur and mystery of the fortress resound in Pablo Neruda's poetry. The marvels of these wondrous heights echo in… Read more about this item

"Mother to Son", "The Weary Blues", "Dream Variation", "Daybreak in Alabama" and "I, Too". From these glorious poems it is easy for us to see why Langston Hughes is so beloved and admired. As is Phoebe Beasley, the painter chosen by Dr. Maya Angelou to illustrate these poems with her six colorful silkscreen prints. Phoebe Beasley is the only artist whose… Read more about this item

O'Connor's shivery story set in the mid 20th century South that the celebrated artist, Benny Andrews, knew all too well. The two lived only thirty miles from one another, but worlds and worlds apart, in Georgia farm country. Why he chose this book, this author, he will tell you in his brilliant Afterword. The white O'Connor flourished within the system. Andrews,… Read more about this item

Naguib Mahfouz' brilliant, intrigue-woven, timeless and witty satire, Arabian Nights and Days. We are honored that this Nobel Prize winning author chose to have us to publish his 1979 masterpiece. For the prints, Mahfouz wisely chose his friend, the superb Cairo artist, Nazli Madkour. We were amazed when we saw her images. So intricate and luminous, they dance before the eyes.… Read more about this item

Cavafy is generally thought to be the greatest Greek poet of the current era and Ithaka is considered to be his masterpiece. Presented here set in the original Greek with English translations. Duane Michals, inspired by Cavafy and his poetry, has given us five photogravures, each utterly breathtaking and glowing with ethereal beauty. As gifted with words, he has written the… Read more about this item

Maya Angelou's Music, Deep Rivers in My Soul is a groundbreaking event for us, a first edition that she wrote especially for our members! She also inspire the exceptional artist, Dean Mitchell, to create six glorious etchings for the book. Even better, Maya Angelou inspired Wynton Marsalis to compose and perform with her a thirty minute CD with Dr. Angelou reading… Read more about this item

Imagine a book about a man who planted trees in an edition that itself comes from a tree, for this magnificent volume is covered with the bark of the mulberry tree. Imagine also an ancient and enchanted land in the south of France. The Vaucluse inspired Jean Giono to write this book and the renowned photographer, Martine Franck, to create five… Read more about this item

Born in French West Africa, Leopold Senghor became the first Black member ever inducted into the French Academy. In 1960, he was unanimously elected the first president of Senegal and then re-elected four times. As a poet, he represented the literary and artistic expression of the black African experience. Four of Senghor's poems appear in this edition, in the original… Read more about this item