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  • The Prophecies

    A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text

    by Nostradamus, Richard Sieburth ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    The first major literary presentation of Nostradamus's Prophecies, newly translated and edited by prizewinning scholarsThe mysterious quatrains of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostradamus have long proved captivating for their predictions. Nostradamus has been credited with anticipating the Great Fire of London, the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Today, as ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $11.99 USD

  • Under the Edge of Night

    by Johannes Bobrowski ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    Odes and elegies set in Prussia, Lithuania, and on the killing fields of the Eastern Front during World War II. These are war wounds in poetic form, bringing buried history and oppression powerfully into the light.Often compared to the poetry of Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs, the postwar verse of Johannes Bobrowski is set in the Prussian-Lithuanian landscapes of Bobrowski's childhood and in the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • A Certain Plume

    by Henri Michaux, Richard Sieburth, Lawrence Durrell ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    A bilingual edition of the most famous of Henri Michaux's poetry collections, now in a new translation from the French.The figure of Plume preoccupied the great Belgian poet Henri Michaux throughout his career. Plume, meaning feather or pen, is a character who drifts from one thing to another, losing shape, taking new forms, at perpetual risk from reality. He is a personification of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • War Songs

    by 'Antarah ibn Shaddad, James E Montgomery, Richard Sieburth, Peter Cole ...
    Series Book 41 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warriorFrom the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab father and an Ethiopian slave mother, 'Antarah ibn Shaddad struggled to win the recognition of his father and tribe. He defied social norms and, despite ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wickerwork

    by Christian Lehnert ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    **Vivifying poetry of nature and the spirit — explore a mystical world of hawkmoths and elvers, skylarks and salamanders, with the shimmering grace of Gary Snyder"Lehnert's imagination is precise, patient, yearning... [it] documents the vast interconnectedness of being on earth in the mundane hydraulics of existence—sap, slime, metabolic exchange—and enacts it in a dense weave of sound." —Karen ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Selected Writings

    by Gerard de Nerval ...
    Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with his groundbreaking writings. This comprehensive selection of his works includes 'Aurélia', the memoir of his madness; the haunting novella of love and memory 'Sylvie' (considered to be a masterpiece by ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • Love Sonnets and Elegies

    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    by Richard Sieburth, Louise Labé ...
    Louise Labé, one of the most original poets of the French Renaissance, published her complete Works around the age of thirty and then disappeared from history. Rediscovered in the nineteenth century, her incandescent love sonnets were later translated into German by Rilke and appear here in a revelatory new English version by the award-winning translator Richard Sieburth. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Lenz

    by Georg Buchner ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    This classic of German literature—often hailed as the inception of European modernist prose—follows the mental breakdown of an 18th-century schizophrenic playwright, Jakob Michael Reinhold LenzPublished after Büchner’s death, Lenz provides a taut case study of three weeks in the life of schizophrenic, perhaps the first third-person text ever to be written from the “inside” of insanity. An early ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Aseroë

    by François Dominique ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth, Howard Limoli ...
    “A singular novel.” —Lydia Davis, author of Can’t and Won’t and Essays One“An exhilarating adventure!” —Alberto Manguel, author of The Library at Night and Fabulous Monsters“Extraordinary. . . . Brings to mind the great mushroom scenes of the film Phantom Thread. How not to be aroused by this whopping treat of verbal virtuosity?” —Mary Ann Caws, author of The Modern Art Cookb... ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Salt Smugglers

    by Gerard de Nerval ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    First published as a feuilleton in a left-wing newspaper in 1850, The Salt Smugglers provides a political satire of the waning days of France’s short-lived Second Republic. With nods to Diderot and Sterne, this shaggy-dog story deals less with contraband salt smugglers than with the subversive power of fiction to transgress legal and esthetic boundaries. By writing what he claimed was a purely ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Greetings From Angelus

    Poems

    by Gershom Scholem ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    A bilingual collection of poetry from pioneering scholar in Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism, Gershom Scholem.With this volume, Scholem's work reaches beyond the confines of the academy and enters a literary dialogue with writers and philosophers like Walter Benjamin and Hans Jonas.Gershom Scholem's Greetings From Angelus contains dark, lucid political poems about Zionism and assimilation, parodies ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • War Songs

    by James E. Montgomery, ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād ...
    Series Book 11 - Library of Arabic Literature
    Poems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warriorFrom the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab father and an Ethiopian slave mother, 'Antarah ibn Shaddad struggled to win the recognition of his father and tribe. He defied social norms and, despite ... Read more

    $29.69 USD