Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow tran
One of The New York Times' 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistWinner of the 2015 Philosophical Society of Texas Award of Merit in PoetryA searing new collection from one of our country's most important poetsMemories
A vibrant new collection from one of America's most talented young poetsEvery Riven Thing is Christian Wiman’s first collection in seven years, and rarely has a book of poetry so borne the stamp of necessity. Whether in stark, haiku-like descriptions of
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. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchston
A treasure trove of unusual fiction spanning authors from Gogol and Kafka through Woolf and Nabokov to Calvino, Garcia Marquez, and Barthelme. A poet's companion, a student's delight, great bedside reading.Magical Realist Fiction includes:The nose by Niko
Collected prose works by one of Russia's towering literary figures. Osip Mandelstam has in recent years come to be seen as a central figure in European modernism. Though known primarily as a poet, Mandelstam worked in many styles: autobiography, short sto
Animal farm / novel by George Orwell --From The rise and fall of the Soviet Union / history by Michael Kort --The Stalin epigram / poem by Osip Mandelstam --The rebellion of the magical rabbits / short story by Ariel Dorfman --Crow song / poem by Margaret
