"A stunning, intimate collection by Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021), "the most pertinent, impressive, meaningful poet of our time" (Mary Oliver)"--

Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volume-filled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasons-that is imbued with some of the imagery and feeling of Hesse's novels but that has a clarity and resonance all its own,...

The title poem of this collection, set on an Irish island, tells of a pilgrim on an inner journey that leads him back into the world that formed him, and then forward to face the crises of the present. Writing in The Washington Post Book World, Hugh Kenner called the narrative sequence in Seamus Heaney's Station Island "as fine a long poem as we've had in fifty years."

Peter Green is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas in Austin. The author of numerous scholarly works, he has also written several volumes of historical fiction, including The Laughter of Aphrodite (Murray/World; paperback forthcoming from University of California Press). Beverly Bardsley, a free-lance translator, lives in Austin. In the dramatic monologues that make up The Fourth Dimension--especially those based on the grim history...

Niall Campbell was born in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. His first UK collection, Moontide, won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for both the Fenton Aldeburgh and Forward prizes for best first collection. He lives in Leeds, UK. The North American debut of an exciting new voice in British poetry The Scottish poet Niall Campbell's first book, Moontide, won the Edwin Morgan Poetry...

El Ejemplar Poético de Juan de la Cueva, escrito hacia 1606 y dividido en tres epístolas, es un arte poética manierista en tercetos encadenados. Fragmento de la obra Epístola I Sobre el ingenio y arte disputaron Palas y el fiero hijo de la Muerte a quien del cielo por odioso echaron. La sabia diosa su razón convierte en decir que el ingenio sin el arte es ingenio sin arte cuando acierte. De estas dos causas seguiré la parte por do el ingenio...

Maurice Maeterlinck (1862?1949) was a Belgian playwright and poet who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911. He wrote numerous plays including Pelléas et Mélisande (1892), which later inspired an opera by Debussy. Richard Howard has translated over 150 works from the French and published 13 collections of his own poetry. In 1983 he received the American Book Award for his translation of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, and in 1970 he was...

I floated to the West I floated through the water Through the air and the land Then I became the raindrops in the sand I floated in the night Weightless. No effort was made by me And all the stars were smiling In the morning I arrived From the Middle Kingdom far away I floated I floated to the West That's what they say

Eléna Rivera is a poet and translator. She is the author of The Perforated Map and Unknowne Land, and her poems have appeared in the Nation, Denver Quarterly, the New York Times, and many other publications. Her translation of Bernard Noël's The Rest of the Voyage won the Robert Fagles Translation Prize. She was born in Mexico City, spent her childhood in Paris, and now lives in New York City. A remarkable sequence of sonnets that reflect contemporary...

A los veinticinco años fueron incluidos varios poemas de Francisco de Quevedo en la antología de Pedro Espinosa Flores de poetas ilustres (1605). La primera edición de sus versos fue publicada póstumamente por Jusepe González de Salas con el título de El Parnaso español, monte en dos cumbres dividido, con las nueve musas castellanas (1648). Un sobrino de Quevedo, Pedro Aldrete y Villegas, publicó su obra lírica en Las tres últimas musas...