"Unlike the Surrealists, Goll loved a real woman, who was an unchanging presence in his life. He and his wife Claire formed a turbulent love-world of which he wrote continuously. And it may be that Goll will be remembered finally for these poems. Their simple visionary grace, the ease with which they build a spiritual moment out of commonplace, almost conventional images, make the love poems unique in modern poetry." - Paul Zweig

"There are very few things like this in modern literature: Yvan and Claire Golls' Ten Thousand Dawns--Dix Mille Aubes--the very title of which has always brought tears to my eyes." -Kenneth Rexroth

A stunning story about a woman's return from the U.S. to a homeland that no longer exists.

Pushing forty and an oversized load of responsibility, a clash of cultures finally causes a Yugoslav-born woman to go to Yugoslavia to reclaim her father, her responsibility, her mooring. Bit by bit, she unearths the past, examining the emotions and conf licts of her immediate family and the motley, indomitable nation she stubbornly loves. Strong enough to cope with the conflicting demands of modern womanhood, she is undone by the slow, maddening disintegration of the old, disillusioned, card-carrying bu ilder of Yugoslav Socialism. As she watches him and everything he fought for crumble into dust, she loses her sense and measure of who she is.

“the horrors that have befallen the former Yugoslavia, it is not surprising that many would look back on the Communist era nostalgically. Franklin revisits the twilight years of the Tito era, a world full of eccentric family and friends. Serbs, Croats, and Muslims coexisting happily before being engulfed in civil war. In this semiautobiographical novel, an Americanized Yugoslav woman returns home for a visit and to check up on her aging father, a war hero and former dip lomat whose declining health mirrors the inevitable disintegration of the nation. The interpersonal dynamics between characters are reminiscent of Neil Simon's bittersweet comedies. Franklin's love for her country comes through in every sentence. Franklin has written the “perfect”expatriate novel for the end of the century.”Ted Leventhal

“you know nothing about Zen but wish to capture the spirit easily, this is the book for you. Simple elegance at its best.” -NAPRA Journal

Poems and prose by Latin America’s first Nobel Prize Laureate.

“This beautiful anthology holds the first English translation of Gabriela Mistral’s extraordinary prose and poetry . . . hidden to the mainstream no longer, here is the breathtaking lifework of a most gifted and enigmatic muse.” —NAPRA Journal

Jacqueline Joan Johnson has been awarded the Gregory Millard Fellowship for the New York Foundation for the Arts and Mid-Atlantic Writers Association Creative Writing Award in Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and magazines. She is th e author of Stokely Carmichael: The Story of Black Power for children and contributed to UpSouth: African American Migration and Streetlights: Illuminating Black Urban Tales.

The essence of Zen is contained in the phrases and poems presented here, along with an introduction by Gary Snyder. The sayings range from profound to mystifying to comical and appear in vivid, poetic English. First compiled in 15th century Japan, the book contains Zen phrases and verses taken from Zen classics, sutras, and the poetry of China.

Always Filling, Always Full is an exciting collection of tanka, the ancient Japanese five-line poem. Chula’s tanka are concise, moving, alive perceptions of the full range of human feelings. Working within the sinuous tradition of the Japanese tanka form, Chula has found a voice that bows both in the direction of earlier works and towards the unknown:the next poem, whose perception is always ungraspable until the words fall into place.

The ancient Japanese form of tanka has been used since literature was first recorded in the Kojiki in 712. By the 1600s, however, tanka had fallen out of favor. The form was revived in the early 1900s, and has grown steadily since. "I do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; I seek the things they sought," said Basho, and the same could be said by Chula. This collection blends Japanese tradition with an American sensibility to produce poems concise, moving, and filled with vivid perception of the range of human feeling. Maggie Chula spent twelve years living and studying in Kyoto, Japan, and has published three collections of haiku. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

This major anthology presents one hundred poems drawn form a tradition spanning one thousand years of Korean poets writing in Classic Chinese. Kim Joh-gil captures the elegant simplicity and emotional complexity of the originals in three stunning translations. Up until the 17th century, the bulk of Korean poetry was written in Chinese, the language of poets, scholars, and monks. This work became an integral part of Korean literary tradition. Among the Flowering Reeds, which introduces this important poetic tradition to the English-speaking audience, includes 100 poems spanning more than 1,000 years. Lovers of Chinese and Japanese poetry will delight in these translations, which capture both the elegant simplicity and the emotional complexity of the originals.

Kim Jong-gilis a Professor Emeritus of English at Korea University in Seoul and is a member of the Korean Academy of Arts. His works of translation include The Snow Falling on Chagall’s Village: Poems of Kim Ch’un-Su. He is presently completing an anthology of modern Korean poetry.

“Occasion of Sin is not to be missed.” -Small Press

“explores dark emotions and thoughts with wonderful subtlety; he has a deliciously wicked wit and great range.” -Publishers Weekly

This large, bilingual collection contains more than twenty years of poetry, including new work, arranged by themes fundamental to Agosin's artistic and critical oeuvre. Her rich Eastern European and Latin American heritage, her experiences in exile, and her profound humanistic vision all play a role as she writes about ancestors, women, children, the poor, and the disinherited. Despite the difficult material, Agosin expresses a need to rejoice in life and to believe in the possibility of change. Always searching for life's bare essentials, often in a spare language that reveals the common threads that unite us all, Agosin explores such diverse landscapes to "make beauty and order out of chaos and pain."

Marjorie Agosin is well-known as a poet, writer, critic, and human rights activist. She is editor of the critically acclaimed Secret Weavers Series of Latin American Women's writing published by White Pine Press. Agosin is a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Her published work includes: Ashes of Revolt, A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile, An Absense of Shadows, and Happiness.

"Marjorie Agosin is one of the most lyrical and refined voices in Latin America."
-Claribel Alegria

"Agosin's poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile."
-Isabel Allende

"Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision."
-Julia Alvarez

Milton Rogovin’s photographs are in many major collections, and his archives were recently acquired by the Library of Congress. A true national treasure, Rogovin, now in his ninth decade, received the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award in 1983.

Winner of the 1993 Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets, Merrill’s previous work has received wide acclaim. A striking new collection by a poet W. S. Merwin calls "gifted, audacious, and accomplished." A prolific journalist, Merrill's most recent work, two non-fiction books on the crisis in the Balkans, have received tremendous critical acclaim. With this collection, he returns for the first time in seven years to the form closest to his heart: poetry.

"No anxiety of influence prevails here; nor is there evidence of a desire to follow any models too closely. Rather, there is a generosity that names names, offers praise, then contributes something new. Merrill lives in a landscape of names, surrounded by eloquent scraps of language allowing him to chant the senses' progress through the world.”
-John Elder, The Los Angeles Times

Christopher Merrill is Director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

These poems, written during and following the Korean War, reflect the reality of living in a country torn in half by political ideologies. Comparable to the Civil War in that it pitted brother against brother, the partitioning of the country following the war carried the bitterness forward into the present and created a situation that has kept families from reuniting and left an entire generation longing to go home.

Twenty-one poets, male and female, North Korean and South Korean, well-known and long forgotten, appear in this collection, the first of its kind in English. The poems reflect the reality of living in a country torn in half by political ideologies. An introduction by translator Ji-moon Suh places the poems and the poets within a historical context that describes the suffering and despair of pitting brother against brother.

“These poems will wound you and haunt you, but the larger knowing they bring is crucial. Susan Rich is a caring citizen of every heartland.”
-Naomi Shihab Nye

Susan Rich gives us a collection of poems...generous in the range and power of their emotion.
-J. M. Coetzee

Maurice Kenny is professor at the State University of New York at Potsdam. He lives in Saranac Lake in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains. His most recent books, both from the University of Michigan Press, are Tortured Skins & Other Fictions and In the Time of the Present.

“...we meet an affronted gentleness...in the suburbs, Christ the fox cries, or dies, maimed in a snare. Deane's poems radiate the desire of the spirit to believe despite the harshness of our world.”

“Hamill reminds us that the pure hunger of solitude and the constant grace of the natural world are most powerfully experienced when touched by human empathy. In the zen blues of our time, Sam Hamill's poems echo like bare bone upon bone.”—St. John

“Hamill reminds us that the pure hunger of solitude and the constant grace of the natural world are most powerfully experienced when touched by human empathy. In the z