The Landscape of Castile
Poems by Antonio Machado

This is the first complete English translation of Campos de Castilla, the book central to Machado’s work, which was written between 1907 and 1917. Machado made his living as a teacher, and in 1907 he accepted a post in the isolated town of Soria in Castile. He stayed for five years, marrying and then watching as his young wife slowly died of tuberculosis. Though he moved often during the rest of his life, Castile remained his spiritual center, and the poems, many the result of long walks in the countryside, reflect the landscape there: spare and luminous. Published in a bilingual edition, this classic of Spanish literature also contains poems that address Spain’s post-colonial reality and tributes to the writers, thinkers, and poets of his country.

Translated by Mary G. Berg & Dennis Maloney
1-893996-26-3 260 pages $17.00 Paper

There Is No Road: Proverbs by Antonio Machado
translated by Mary Berg & Dennis Maloney
Introduction by Thomas Moore

128 pages $14.00 ISBN 1-893996-66-2
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"Traveler, there is no road; you make your path as you
walk"

While others suggest taking the road less traveled,
Antonio Machado suggests that we each make our own
road. In this series of brief poems Machado utilizes
traditional Spanish verse forms to create a wide
ranging collection of reflections and philosophical
insights in the form of aphorisms. Poems that have the
immediacy of epigrams or Japanese haiku.
Antonio Machado (1875-1939) is one of the greatest
poets of 20th century Spain. He along with Juan Ramon
Jimenez and Miguel de Unamuno formed the generation of
1898, which ushered in a new Spanish poetics.
Mary Berg is a professor of Spanish at at Harvard
University and the translator of many volumes
including River of Sorrows by Libertad Demitropulos.
Dennis Maloney is a poet and translator. His
translations include the work of Pablo Neruda and Juan
Ramon Jimenez.

"Like fresh wine in a beautiful old bottle, Mary Berg
and Dennis Maloney have, in There Is No Road, given us
a new score for the songs of this legend of 20th
century Spanish literature. Reminiscent of the 13th
century Persian mystic Hafiz, and with a kind of
alchemical duende, Machado, in these Sappho-like
fragments, takes us down not only the road less
traveled, but the road not seen, where transformation
and transfiguration comes not from self-made millions,
but from changing "love into theology." "
-Thomas Rain Crowe - translator of Drunk on the
Wine of the Beloved: 100 Poems of Hafiz

"This collection of poems by Antonio Machado opens the
door to a world of rich simplicity, rare intentions,
and great beauty. So very spiritual, so very real."
-Joan Halifax, Abbess, Upaya Zen Center

Moments Without Names: New and Selected Prose Poems

Morton Marcus

A selection of one-hundred and ten poems, sixty-three of which are new, from the man Alan Cheuse called “a marvelous godfather” to the prose poem.

“Mort Marcus one of America’s hidden literary treasures, has become a suberb master of the prose poem...Often, it’s the situation, the little storyline that captivates...At other times its is language...that sends a shiver up the spine. I couldn’t get enough of this delectable stuff, and there is nothing else like it anywhere.”
--Al Young

Sixty-five new poems take their place beside forty-five poems published in Marcus’s previous two books. Employing and many times parodying the structures of discourse by which we have communicated our sense of the world through the ages, Marcus re-examines the notions on which the human species has understood its place in the universe. In the process, he has created his own cosmology, a cosmology by turns humorous, satirical, poignant, and always compassionate in revealing our beliefs, foibles, hopes, and contradictory actions. Morton Marcus is the author of seven books of poetry and one novel, The Brezhvev Memo. A film historian and critic as well as a poet, Marcus taught film and literature at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California, until his retirement.

Poetry Marie Alexander Poetry Series 5

6 x 9 176 pages $16.95 1-893996-51-4

Sleek for the Long Flight
Poems by William Matthews

“the beginning, I’ve loved the sensuous wit, rueful play, sense, and intelligence, and the startling quiet beauty of William Matthews’ poems. It is clear that the gift that has been with him from the start has been his own.” -W. S. Merwin

ISBN 0-934834-22-9 · 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 · 80 pages · $8.00 paper

In Lithuanian Wood
Wendell Mayo
Fiction, Cultural Studies, Multicultural Studies

“...a profound, ambitious, and complex vision of a part of the world few of us know...rare fiction, executed with equally rare skill and compassion.”Weaver

Written as a series of montages, this novel, a rare and powerful tale set in the former Soviet republic of Lithuaniafirst Soviet-occupied state to demand and win its independence after a violent confrontation with the Red Army in 1991with imagination, intimacy, and insight of the human consequences of rapid change in the Baltic States. Mayo's American, Paul Rood, vows to bring Walt Whitman's Song of Myself to Lithuanians, yet when he sits with Vilma, his interpreter, on the bank of the Nemunas River to make the translation, the stories she tells him of Lithuania consume all their time and seem truer than any rendering of Whitman. What they finally translate are stories drawn from Lithuania's deep well of myth, folklore, and histories of the human heart. The keeper ironically laments the passing of the strict Societ order; an unemployed sculptor wonders what he will find when he scrubs off the Soviet whitewash covering religious frescoes; a gravedigger is frantic to find a plot for the town's mafioso mayor because everywhere he begins to dig in the cemetery he uncovers the scattered remains of Jews murdered by Hitlerites; a dissident physicist recently returned from “rehabilitation”ordered by the KGB resorts to picking pockets in the open market. Magical, stark, and prophetic, In Lithuanian Wood is a captivating and visionary portrait of a country, a peopleworldvital transition, truly stories of our time.

ISBN ·1-877727-87-3 ·5.5x8.5 ·224 pages ·$14.00 paper

Whatever Shines

Kathleen McGookey

‘Whatever Shines is an admirable and dazzling first collection. The voice is indisputably unique and haunting, and one looks forward to anything the poet writes in the future.”
-Jim Harrison

"The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!"
-Naomi Shihab Nye

Kathleen McGookey holds a Ph.D. in literature from Western Michigan University. She is managing editor of Third Coast and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 1998. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Poetry Women's Literature Marie Alexander Poetry Series 4

6 x 9 80 pages $14.95 1-893996-19-0

Floating Island

Pablo Medina

These poems resonate of paradise, be it imagined, remembered, found, or lost. From simplicity of
nocturnes singing of "a nostalgia for what never was" to the complexity of boleros speaking in three languages;love, hope, and betrayal;these poems show us a gifted poet who has grafted the Latin sensibilities of his youth onto an international sense of imagery, rhythm, and vision.

6 x 9 96 pages $14.00 1-893996-01-8

Brilliant Water

Christopher Merrill

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.

Poetry

6 x 9 96pages $14.00 1-893996-12-3

Watch Fire
Poems by Christopher Merrill
Introduction by David St. John

"Merrill’s...range in form and subject matter is enormous, and...one is struck not just by the growth of Merrill’s imagination but also by his tireless search for a language that captures the vitality of experience.”- Publishers Weekly

ISBN 1-877727-43-1 · 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 192 pages · $14.00 paper

Northern Latitudes Prose Poems

Lawrence Millman

The third book in our Marie Alexander poetry series, this collection by noted travel writer Lawrence Millman conjures up the people, the tales, and the stark, fantastic landscapes
of the far north, including arctic Canada, Greenland, Labrador, Iceland, and the northern fastnesses of the British Isles. With an ear for the subtle and a weakness for the outrageous, Millman skillfully weaves lush vocabulary, wild stories, and tribal traditions into his poems. He offers uncanny insights into humanness;our instincts, our histories, our differences; simply by evoking that magnetic north with uncanny passion.

Lawrence Millman is the author of eight other books (most recently An Evening Among
Headhunters) and hundreds of essays, short stories, and poems published in hundreds of magazines, as well as the editor of several anthologies.

Poetry

6 x 9 96 pages $14.95 0-89823-207-4

Our Like Will Not Be There Again: Notes from the West of Ireland
Essays by Lawrence Millman

“lovely nugget of good writing. This book is just the kind of modest, under-advertised chunk of authenticity you stumble on and want to pass on to your friends.”- New York Times Book Review

ISBN 1-877727-22-9 · 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 · 210 pages · $12.00 paper

Secret Weavers Series - Volume 5
A Gabriela Mistral Reader
Translated by Maria Giacchetti

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

ISBN 1-877727--18-0 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 277 pages • $13.00 paper

Women: Recados

Gabriela Mistral

Translated & edited by Marjorie Agosin & Jacqueline Nanfito

Most of these essays on women were originally published in newspapers and journals. Gathered together in Engish for the first time, they paint vivid portraits of some of the most extraordinary women of Mistral’s generation and give us an insight into Gabriela Mistral herself. Exquisite word portraits of women by one of the past century's greatest women writers. These recados, brief, descriptive essays,paint vivid pictures of some of the most extraordinary women of Mistral's generation and give us insights into Mistral herself. In these pieces, Mistral infuses the traditionally objective essay form with the intimate and subjective, thereby creating an alternate space for women intellectuals in the public sphere. Her subjects range from her own beloved mother to well-known writers such as Victoria Ocampo and Emily Bronte, artists such as Chilean sculptor Laura Rodig and dancer Isadora Duncan, and to topics including feminism, women and
politics, and women and education.

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is the only woman from Latin America to win the Nobel Prize. A native of Chile, she spent the final years of her life in the United States.

Literature & Essay Latin American Literature

6 x 9 224 pages $16.00 1-893996-09-3
An Occasion of Sin: Stories by John Montague

“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

ISBN 1-877727-21-0 · 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 · 200 pages · $12.00 paper

Born in Brooklyn:Poems & Prose by John Montague

"Montague, with grace and elegance, hints at childhood memories so rich and intriguing that perhaps he should be pursuaded to write a full-blown autobiography.” -Irish-America Magazine

ISBN 1-877727-13-X · 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 · 115 pages · $10.00 paper

Way Below E: Short Stories by Patrick J. Murphy

“skillfully evokes the tension between the celebration of individualism and the impossibility of collective agreement...a collection of funny and sinister stories with a refreshing assuredness. Recommended.”- Library Journal

ISBN 1-877727-42-3 · 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 · 230 pages · $14.00 paper

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