Sidney Wade

In this stunning collection, the author offers an exquisite array of poems at once sublime and playful, dedicated to the unearthly wonders of winged creatures. The book is a universal song of praise to the mysteries and intricacies of the animal world that surrounds us, and a wide-awake hymn, by a master lyricist, to the delights and surprises of our common language. The brilliantly vivid, elegant verse is sure to delight and inspire general readers, poetry enthusiasts, and avid birders or naturalists alike.

Bird Book

John Biguenet

Like sailing into new ports of call, "Strange Harbors" suggests that reading the world's literature can ignite affinities across languages and literary traditions - and that the art of translation can distil familiar experiences from disparate lands. Featuring a special focus on Turkish poetry and a preview of Edith Grossman's latest work, "Strange Harbors" ferries poetry and fiction from eighteen languages and twenty-three countries to English readers. Its highlights include: a crime story that unravels in Franco's Spain involving a student on the run from police, the attic of a country estate, and a lost masterpiece by an obscure poet; a Catalonian twist on painter Edward Hopper's "noir Americana"; poems by a man who barely escaped the political terror in El Salvador that deprived him of home and family; a Romanian story about a bizarre contest at a communist beach resort; and, a story about the devastating legacy of Agent Orange on the people and culture of Vietnam. Placed in context by the translators themselves, each selection in "Strange Harbors" features commentary on the singular challenges and discomfiting pleasures of mediating the shift from language to language.

Strange Harbors

a particular and splendid instance of what Hopkins meant by 'poetry proper, the language of inspiration.' "—Richard Howard

New and Selected Poems

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Celestial Bodies

From a world tilted a fraction off its axis, these poems speak of angels in Maine and Balinese dinners beneath the Kansas prarie moon. Standing at the interval between the real and surreal, the earthly and eternal, much of Sidney Wade's poetry ponders these intervening spaces, where hunger goes unabated and the air stirs with sighs of exquisite longing. In this collection, language seeks to replicate the world, wresting the soul to all its fluent conjugations--the discourse of insects on the forest floor, the rhetoric of ballroom dancers, the crusty inflections of brushstrokes in an Edward Hopper painting.

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