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  • Every Minute Is First

    Selected Late Poems

    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    The first full-length English translation of this celebrated French poet offers a penetrating and encompassing collection touching on death, domesticity, nature, language itself, and—always—the body.French literary icon Marie-Claire Bancquart (1932–2019) is known for an uncanny inhabitation of the concrete, finding whole worlds, even afterlives, in daily instances and spaces. "If I could seize a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • If You Cross the River

    A Novel

    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    From celebrated Belgian author Geneviève Damas, a modern fable about friendship, self-determination, and the power of words.Illiterate, isolated, and held at arm's length by a bitter father, François Sorrente has spent his seventeen years within narrow confines. By day he tends the family farm's pigs; by night he manages the household chores. Still, François can't help but wonder about the wider ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queen, Warrior, Captain

    The Story of Artemisia of Halicarnassus

    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    The story of Artemisia, formidable queen of the Greek city-state of Halicarnassus, that counters longstanding misconceptions about women’s roles in antiquityHerodotus’s listeners never doubted that Artemisia I of Caria had commanded a fleet in the naval Battle of Salamis. After all, she was the queen of the Greek city-state of Halicarnassus and a military ally of Persia, despite her Greek origins. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Second Star

    and other reasons for lingering

    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    A #1 bestseller in France, Second Star is an inspiring series of lyrical meditations on life's smallest moments, from peeling a clementine, drinking a cold mojito, to washing your windowsA still life in motion, Second Star "consumes the present" with a patient curiosity, asking us to "put off tomorrow" and join Philippe Delerm in tasting, touching, listening, and noticing.Whether biting into a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Five Meditations on Death

    In Other Words . . . On Life

    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Philosophical discussions on the ways that death makes life meaningful and sacred• Reveals how being conscious of death gives our fate its full meaning, inviting the reader to contemplate life in the light of their own death• Examines the author’s experience of ancestor worship in his native China and the beliefs that underlie it• Explains how death is a transition in a longer living process not ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Small Lives

    by Pierre Michon ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Deshays, Jody Gladding ...
    Small Lives (Vies minuscules), Pierre Michon’s first novel, won the Prix France Culture. Michon explains that he wrote it "to save my own skin. I felt in my body that my life was turning around. This book born in an aura of inexpressible joy and catharsis rescued me more effectively than my aborted analysis." Le Monde calls it "his chef d’oeuvre. A bolt of lightening." In Small Lives, Michon ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Queen, Warrior, Captain

    The Story of Artemisia of Halicarnassus

    Narrated by Aasne Vigesaa ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 32 min

    The story of Artemisia, formidable queen of the Greek city-state of Halicarnassus, that counters longstanding misconceptions about women's roles in antiquityHerodotus's listeners never doubted that Artemisia I of Caria had commanded a fleet in the naval Battle of Salamis. After all, she was the queen of the Greek city-state of Halicarnassus and a military ally of Persia, despite her Greek origins. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Wild Geese Returning

    Chinese Reversible Poems

    A breathtaking introduction to Chinese multidirectional poems, told through the story of Su Hui, the greatest writer of these poems who embroidered a silk with 840 characters--equaling as many as 12,000 multidirectional poems--for her distant husband.For nearly two thousand years, the condensed language of classical Chinese has offered the possibility of writing poems that may be read both forward ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Lichens

    Toward a Minimal Resistance

    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our gaze. But the more time we spend with lichens, the more they reveal their beauty, their mysteries and their strange power of attraction. Part-algae and part-fungus, lichens call into question our ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Pink

    The History of a Color

    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Series series The History of a Color
    From the acclaimed author of Blue and other color histories, the beautifully illustrated story of pink, from the first ancient pigments to BarbiePink has such powerful associations today that it’s hard to imagine the color could ever have meant anything different. But it’s only since the introduction of the Barbie doll in 1959 that pink has become decisively feminized. Indeed, in the eighteenth ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Rimbaud the Son

    by Pierre Michon ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding, Elizabeth Deshays ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A radiant work of fiction that illuminates the life and art of Rimbaud in a way that no biography couldRimbaud the Son, widely celebrated upon its publication in France, investigates the life of a writer, the writing life, and the art of life-writing. Pierre Michon in his groundbreaking work examines the storied life of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud by means of a new literary genre: a meditation ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Album

    Unpublished Correspondence and Texts

    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as friendships, intellectual adventures, politics, and aesthetics. It offers an intimate look at Barthes's thought processes and the everyday reflection ... Read more

    $25.19 USD