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A penetrating and encompassing English-language translation from the celebrated French poet touching on death, domesticity, nature, language itself, and--always--the body.French literary icon Marie-Claire Bancquart (1932-2019) is known for an uncanny inhabitation of the concrete, finding whole world... Read More about Every Minute Is First: Selected Late Poems

A #1 bestseller in France, Second Star is an inspiring series of lyrical meditations on life's smallest moments, from peeling a clementine, drinking a cold mojito, to washing your windowsA still life in motion, Second Star "consumes the present" with a patient curiosity, asking us to "put off tomorr... Read More about Second Star: and other reasons for lingering

From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the present In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau--a renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue, black, green, and red--now traces the visual, ... Read More about Yellow: The History of a Color

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE From celebrated Belgian author Genevi ve Damas, a modern fable about friendship, self-determination, and the power of words. Illiterate, isolated, and held at arm's length by a bitter father, Fran ois Sorrente has spent his seventeen years within narrow ... Read More about If You Cross the River

Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as friendships, intellectual adventures, politics, and a... Read More about Album: Unpublished Correspondence and Texts (European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)