Influenced by Expressionist painting and the meaninglessness of much of contemporary life, his work is decidedly modern though written with the solemnity and magnificence of the old Flemish style. Here, collected for the first time in English is the complete poetic ouvre of this great Flemish author.. read more

Poetry. Translated from the Czech. Ivan Blatny was, according to the Czech Ministry of Culture, "one of the most significant Czech poets of the twentieth century." This volume spans fifty years of his career and is notable for being the first major collection of Blatny's work in English, including his multi-lingual poems written while he was housed in mental hospitals in England... read more

Poetry. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Translated from the Swedish by Fredrik Hertzberg. "Du gar de ord, the last collection of poems by the great Finland-Swedish Modernist poet Gunnar Bjorling...is a milestone in the annals of experimental poetics produced in our century"--Marjorie Perloff... read more

Fiction. Translated from the French by Paul Knobloch. Originally published in 1947. Vian's innovative style, cutting-edge during his lifetime, but only successful in the sixties, made him an icon of the May 1968 student movement... read more

Fiction. Poetry. Translated from the Russian by Evgeny Pavlov. C.D. Wright has said of Dragomoshchenko's work: "This is poetry. Immodest. Magisterial. More or less impenetrable. The relation of language is potential but not improvisational. The vocabulary for this is happily idiosyncratic..." read more

Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Johannes Goranson. REMAINLAND showcases poetry from four volumes by Aase Berg, one ofSweden's most celebrated and subversive young writers. From the wrecked fairy-tale-scape of With Deer to the pregnancy allegory Transfer Fat, from the sci-fi naturalism of Dark Matter to the catastrophic oasis of Uppland, Berg works language into miniature grotesques which invert the truisms of contemporary society... read more

Fiction. Translated from the German by Anthony Vivis. To enter TWELVE NIGHTS, you must pass through a fractured threshold, placing one foot in lyric, the other in prose glittering with fairy tale and recent past. Ghosts are abroad; memories strike when least expected, biting like animals... read more