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With over 19 books published, Habib Tengour is one of the Maghreb region's most important poets and commentators. Tengour, born in Algeria, divides his time between Paris and Constantine. This title presents a survey of the poems and writings of Tengour.

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Multiple-award winning poet Marilyn Kallets first book of new and collected poems draws from many of her books and publications to create a succinct and comprehensive overview of her work. Author of 14 books, her poems have been published in hundreds of periodicals and poetry reviews over the last thirty years.

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In 1908 a small volume of poetry was published in Paris by an unknown author named A. O. Barnabooth-who in fact did not exist. Only after the book received favorable reviews by major French writers and critics did its real author, Valery Larbaud, step forward to claim Barnabooth as his alter ego. The revised and expanded 1913 edition of the book, with Larbaud credited as its author, has become a classic, eventually being included in the esteemed Pleiade series of books devoted to great French writers and has remained in print in France for almost 100 years now. In The Poems of A. O. Barnabooth Larbaud expresses an ambivalent yearning for exotic places where one might be exalted by both the sadness and the beauty of life. He is fascinated by otherness. But, as Rimbaud put it, I is another. Larbaud/Barnabooth says, I always write with a mask upon my face. but sometimes this mask dissolves. Larbaud's modulation between cynical despair and the simple pleasures of everyday life bare the mercurial heart of a young poet fascinated by the mystery of identity, making The Poems of A. O. Barnabooth the marvelous and modern book that it is. This current bilingual edition, translated by the poets Ron Padgett and Bill Zavatsky, includes an introduction, additional poems by Larbaud, period post card illustrations, and detailed notes for all the poems.

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A comprehensive anthology that looks at Clayton Eshleman's body of work: from translations to poetry to essays and prose poems.

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The "Contes et nouvelles en vers" of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were published at various times throughout his life, often these works threatened to get him in trouble with both Church and Academie. This translation covers the entire corpus in all their variety.

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Contains the poems of legendary Dada poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) that encompass the full range of Tzara's works.

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Part of the "Black Widow Press New Poets Series", this title surveys both writings and poems written over the years.

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Joyce Mansour (1928-1986) is widely considered to be one of the most important of the woman Surrealists. Her work has gained more recognition every year since her death. Following the release in France of a 700 page critically acclaimed anthology (in French), this anthology features Mansour's writings.

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From National Book Award winning poet/author Clayton Eshleman a wide ranging new book of poetry, prose poems, and essays. Spanning subjects from the writer's craft to poetic musings on art, this collection follows his recent, widely acclaimed 'Complete poems of Cesar Vallejo' and his books of original poems, 'Alchemist with One Eye on Fire'.

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Internationally known collage artist Bernard Bador has been writing some of the most uniquely surrealist poetry of the modern era. This title presents an overview of his works.

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Multi-award winning poet Amina Said was born in Tunis and has lived in Paris since 1978. Her work, though translated into German, Turkish, Arabic, and Italian, has only seen snippets translated into English. This title presents a survey of Said's poems.

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Translated into English, this title presents a discourse on the re-invention of love but beginning on a sombre note of suicide.

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In the United States, Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) is known mainly for his novel Zazie dans le metro, which was made into a film by Louis Malle, for Excercises in Style, and for being the founder and one of the most important members of the literary movement known as Oulipo. In France and much of Europe Queneau is known for his prolific and wide ranging writings. During his lifetime some eighteen novels, ten volumes of poetry, seven volumes of essays, and countless other published essays and commentaries kept him in public view and continue to do so today as new biographies, symposiums, and critical writings on him appear with regularity. Les Ziaux (Eyeseas) present a bilingual survey of his poems as written from his early Surrealist days of the 1920's through to 1943 and is representative of Queneau's range of poetic voices. As so little of Queneau's poetry has been published in English, we hope this translation will not only fill a serious void but may also help to inspire interest in the poetry of one of the most important French writers of the twentieth-century.

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Translated into some 50 languages in over 60 countries, Guillevic remains one of the most popular poets of Europe inspiring songs, artists, and poetry lovers everywhere. This comprehensive bi-lingual anthology of the poems of Guillevic coincides with the festivities in France to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth.

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National Book Award winning poet/author Clayton Eshleman's 14th collection of poetry and prose poems.

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Section of poems by Bei Dao translated by National Book Award winning translator Clayton Eshleman with Lucas Klein. Bei Dao, one of China's foremost modern poets, has been translated into 30 languages and several times candidate for the Nobel Prize. Bei Dao is currently Professor of Humanities at the Chinese University in Hong Kong.

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A sustained long sequence poem by award winning poet Robert Kelly. Widely anthologized and published, Robert Kelly, whose writing of poety now spans some fifty years, spent three years working and re-working this poem, which will rightly be called one of the major works in his long and prolific career.

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Presents the story of a difficult love, from the first signs of tenderness through a life-and-death battle, to a reconciliation made necessary by wisdom.

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