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Daniel Sloate (1931-2009) was a prolific poet, playwright and translator.

The poems in this selection were written and published between 1954 and 1977, except for two poems which have never appeared in book form before. Fred Cogswell writes crystalline poems.

This book is the first part of Patriarca's trilogy on Italian women.

In the original introduction to Pascal D'Angelo's Son of Italy, the renowned literary critic Carl Van Doren praised D'Angelo's autobiography as an impassioned story of his "enormous struggles again

An experiment in what the author terms "speculative history," this novel tracks the movements of a man haunted by the spirit of his deceased mother and dogged by the notion that Astoria - the Itali

The writing of Carlos De Oliviera is usually considered neorealist, but this selection of poems also shows the influence of symbolism, surrealism, and cubism.

These poems test the capacity of individuals, families, communities, and the earth itself to stand the pressures of modern life.

Haunting and memorable, the poems in this collection exhibit a sensuous command of language.

Naked brilliantly illustrates the theatricalist mode Pirandello invented for dramatizing multiple points of view simultaneously.

This offbeat story collection effortlessly captures dark underworlds and the eccentric characters that inhabit them. In one story, a jealous tattoo artist revenges himself on the woman he loves.

Weaving together complex layers of personal and political history, this collection of poems traces a Jewish family's path from 1930s Europe to 21st-century Canada.

Weaving homage and history, this collection of poetry was inspired by the life of Charlotte Saloman, the Berlin-born artist who perished at Auschwitz. Saloman was the author of Life? or Theatre?

In these poems, objects are occasions in outline. Dogs, cats, pianos, cappuccino, hair dye, snowshoes, parsley, and black raspberries do not simply lie there.

The poems in this collection describe the survival of love and family during times of war.

The two short stories in this collection are steeped in the revelries and tragedies of nostalgia.