Boris Pasternak, the Nobel laureate and author of Doctor Zhivago, composed one of the world's great love poems in My Sister Life. Written in the summer of 1917, the cycle of poems focuses on personal journeys and loves but is permeated by the tension and promise of the impending October Revolution. Osip Mandelstam wrote: "To read the poems of Pasternak is to get one's throat clear, to fortify one's breathing. . . . I see Pasternak's My Sister Life as a collection of magnificent exercises in breathing . . . a cure for tuberculosis." This English translation, rendered...
Boris Pasternak, the Nobel laureate and author of Doctor Zhivago, composed one of the world's great love poems in My Sister Life. Writt...
Since its founding at Northwestern University in 1964, "TriQuarterly" has remained one of the most widely admired and important literary magazines in the country. Under the editorial direction of Susan Firestone Hahn, "TriQuarterly" continues to publish the best work of both established and new poets and fiction writers. L.S. Asekoff Judith Baumel John Berger Susan Bergman Julie Carr Pura Lopez Colome--translated by Forrest Gander William Corbett Greg Delanty Jean de Sponde--translated by David R. Slavitt Leslie Epstein Ingrid Fichtner P.N....
Since its founding at Northwestern University in 1964, "TriQuarterly" has remained one of the most widely admired and important literary magazines in ...
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (1995) Mark Rudman - poet, essayist, translator, and teacher - has consistently pursued questions of human relationship and identity, and in Rider he takes the poetry of autobiography and confessional to a new plane. In a polyphonic narrative that combines verse with lyrical prose and often humorous dialogue, Rudman examines his own coming-of-age through the lens of his relationships with his grandfather, father, step-father, and son. These memories emerge against the background of a family history anchored in the...
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (1995) Mark Rudman - poet, essayist, translator, and teacher - has consistently...
Winner of the 2003 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL The nameless narrator of The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese's last and greatest novel, returns to Italy from California after the Second World War. He has done well in America, but success hasn't taken the edge off his memories of childhood, when he was an orphan living at the mercy of a bitterly poor farmer. He wants to learn what happened in his native village over the long, terrible years of Fascism; perhaps, he even thinks, he will settle down. And yet as he uncovers a...
Winner of the 2003 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL The nameless narrator of The Moon and the ...
Crisis, breakdown, rejuvenation: this is the territory of poetry that Rudman takes readers into with this set of essays. Constructed as a series of character studies, the essays are rooted in autobiographical material with biographical counterpoints, tying the poets distinctly to places. Even as they are placed, however, they are displaced: Rudman's subjects, from D.H. Lawrence to Czeslaw Milosz to T. S. Eliot, are almost all exiles, either geographically or within themselves. This exile spins anger into energy, transmuting emotion into imagination the same way that Passaic Falls, known to...
Crisis, breakdown, rejuvenation: this is the territory of poetry that Rudman takes readers into with this set of essays. Constructed as a series of...
