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A world-bending, lyrically rich poetry collection that reimagines the U.S.-Mexico border as both a real place and a living simulation-and tells the story of a pair of siblings trapped between the two.
Toledo returns to the landscape of her childhood where animals predict the future and grandmothers shape masa. There, she questions Zapotec traditions even as she mourns their disappearance.
In “Cigarettes Until Tomorrow,” eight Romanian poets use black humor and searing contemporary language to make everyday scenes profound.
Rabah’s poems can be raw and uninhibited by social or literary conventions, exploring and questioning one’s relationship to divinity in absurd circumstances while confronting the sacred cows of his own society, along with the sometimes voyeuristic interest from those on the outside of it.
Originally published in Spanish in 1967, The Great Zoo by the Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén (1902-1989) is a wry political project structured as though a fantastical bestiary of ideas and ideologies.
In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sánchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico.
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Red Pine gathers and translates 126 poems of China’s greatest lyric poet, Xin Qiji, in his latest bilingual collection.
Olena Boryshpolets’ poems cover a vast landscape, from the Ukrainian steppe and the Black Sea, now filled with Russian mines, across the Baltic Sea and across the ocean to the United States.
Between 1923 and 1961, Arendt wrote seventy-four poems, many of them acting as signposts in her biography. For the first time in English, Samantha Rose Hill and Genese Grill present these intensely personal poems in chronological order.
Ranging from stray cats in the graveyards of Rome, to the literal and metaphoric fallout from the Chernobyl disaster, to the joys and disappointments of random hookups, Bellezza’s dazzling visions will sparkle in readers’ eyes like sunspots long after they complete this magnificent volume.