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The poems in Smugglers move through rapid historical shifts and meditations on personal experience, exploring the depths and limits of comprehension through the people and geography of the Balkans. Ultimately, Ales Debeljak's urban imagination creates a mosaic--intimate and historical--of a vanished people and their country. Every poem in Smugglers is sixteen lines long--four quatrains, a common form for Debeljak. This structural regularity is reinforced by a commitment to visual balance, with each poem working as a kind of grid into which the poet pours memories and...

From his first book of poems, Chessboards of Hours (1995), Ales Steger has been one of Slovenia's most promising poets. The philosophical and lyrical sophistication of his poems, along with his work as a leading book editor and festival organizer, quickly spread Steger's reputation beyond the borders of Slovenia. The Book of Things is Steger's most widely praised book of poetry and his first American collection. The...

It sure is complicated being a teen girl. There's the guy at school who makes your heart pound and the family issues that never seem to go away. Add to that mix the exhausting biology class and life is just plain tough. This is a book about the basics. Using real-life examples and applicable Scripture verses, author Heather Jamison talks to girls about the essentials--rules, rags, and relationships--and how wrong attitudes can be changed into valuable lessons.

The Angel Asrael (1832) is the most revealing and the purest of S. Henry Berthoud's fantasies, and a significant early contribution to what became the great Romantic and Symbolist tradition of "literary satanism," in which writers deliberately adopted a stance removed from orthodox Christianity in order to reappraise the character of Satan. As might be expected of a devout writer, Berthoud shows no sympathy for Satan, who remains an archetype of vitriolic nastiness, but in his characterization of the rebel, like John Milton, he cannot help express a certain admiration for his overweening...