"Collected Prose will introduce a new generation of readers to a central modernist and postmodernist thinker in American letters. For the energy of the avant-garde literary project at midcentury, Olson is it. No one else has the excitement or range."—Robert Hass "At last we have between two covers some of the most compelling theorizing in postmodern poetics and American Studies ever produced, from one of the defining figures in postwar American poetry. This is that rarest of books, a must-read for poets and scholars alike."—Alan Golding
This is the first collection of Robert Lowell's poetry which reveals a writer of unmistakeable brilliance who has a profound insight into the human condition.
Paul Celan lived through some of the worst episodes of modern history, losing his parents at the hands of the German army and surviving a period in a labor camp.
Brilliant and erudite, dazzling and witty, these essays survey the geography of humanity, its achievements and its foibles.
" This volume, the first critical edition of Robert Frost's prose, allows readers and scholars to appreciate the great American author's forays beyond poetry, and to discover in the prose that he did make public--in newspapers, magazines, ...
Two Serious Ladies tells the separate odysseys of two very different women : Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield . Miss Goering , a " strong ” character , decides she can achieve salvation only through divesting herself of her ...
Here are all of Stevens’s published books of poetry, side-by-side for the first time with the haunting lyrics of his later years and early work that traces the development of his art.
This collection reveals the full range of Charlotte Mew's work, showcasing the urgency and passion that compelled her to reinvent forms and prosodies to explore her complex pains and loves.
In addition to his first book of short stories The Gold Diggers, a novel The Island, a radio play Listen, and Mabel: A Story, this omnibus edition includes two previously uncollected stories.
Poems and prose pieces personally selected by the playwright demonstrate the characteristics of his literary excursions outside the realm of drama.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.