Rainer Maria Rilke

Michael Hulse

In a new translation of a classic work, young Malte lives in a cheap room in Paris with nothing but library books to keep him company, a humble existence during which he perceives death in everyone he meets and remembers the painful demise of his once-aristocratic family. Original.

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Elfriede Jelinek

An exploration of life in post-World War II Austria follows a sadistic, unrepentant ex-Nazi, his battered wife, and their disaffected son and daughter as the shadow of Europe's recent violent past haunts their lives.

Wonderful, Wonderful Times

In post-World War II Austria, Gerti, a woman on the verge of a breakdown due to her husband's relentless sexual attentions, wanders away from home one day and is rescued by an ambitious young man who turns out to be much like her husband.

Lust. Fiction

Philip Boehm

Herta Müller

In an intense novel set against the backdrop of Ceausescu's totalitarian regime, a young Romanian factory worker--so desperate to escape the betrayal and hardships of her life that she sews notes offering marriage into the linings of suits bound for Italy--is summoned for interrogation by members of the regime. 12,500 first printing.

A Novel

The Appointment

Simon Rae

An anthology of poetry from the twentieth century features brief biographies and chronically arranged entries while providing insight into historical influences and the evolutions of various traditional and modernist forms.

The 20th Century in Poetry

Ingo F. Walther

Rainer Metzger

The Complete Paintings

Van Gogh

This ground-breaking anthology presents in chronological order over 400 poems written in the twentieth century. The authors, both published poets themselves, give an overview of each period of history, while notes to the poems place each one in its historical context and trace the century's poetic development. Concise biographies for each poet complete the anthology. By organizing the poems in chronological order, readers will see poets in a new light. Here A.E. Houseman, for example, rubs shoulders with T.S. Eliot, showing that traditional forms can hold their own against the modernist orthodoxy. Here are poets rescued from oblivion, such as the suffragette who wrote a compelling poem about her mistreatment in Holloway Prison in 1912 or the medical offer who went into Belsen with the British troops producing an eye-witness poem of lasting power. All the major events of the twentieth century are reflected in the choice of poems within these pages. This richly rewarding collection makes invaluable reading for poetry lovers all over the world.

Contemporary poems of love, murder and adultery are interwoven with others on art, history and politics, and the collection culminates with a sequence on loss of religious faith. The settings are as varied as the subjects, including Thatcher's Britain, back-street Sicily and Tiananmen Square.

Eating Strawberries in the Necropolis

Features meditations on the parents and childhood God the author has lost, the national legacies of England and Germany he was born into, and the discovery of home through love.

The Secret History

Almost painfully direct, the poems of 'The Secret History' testify to a new depth and a new tenderness in Michael Hulse's voice. The shadow of his dead father and the light of new love meet here in a collection that is impossible to put down and that lingers in the heart as much as in the memory.

Peter J. Heck

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