Results for "Sieburth, Richard"

"A singular novel." --Lydia Davis, author of Can't and Won't and Essays One "An exhilarating adventure " --Alberto Manguel, author of The Library at Night and Fabulous Monsters "Extraordinary. . . . Brings to mind the great mushroom scenes of the film Phantom Thread. How not to be aroused by this wh... Read More about Aseroë

The fourth and final volume of Michel Leiris’s renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time, translated by Richard Sieburth   Ex-surrealist and maverick anthropologist Michel Leiris (1901–1990) crafted his multivolume autobiography over the course of thirty-five years, pr... Read More about Frail Riffs: The Rules of the Game, Volume 4 (The Margellos World Republic of Letters #4)

The first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire   “[A] handsome new book . . . all this inchoate material is given context by Sieburth’s learned, elegantly written commentary. He is the perfect guide.”—Michael Dirda, Washington Post  ... Read More about Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

Poems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab father and an Ethiopian slave mother, 'Antarah ibn... Read More about War Songs (Library of Arabic Literature #41)

The essential collection of Ezra Pound’s poetry—newly expanded and annotated with essays by Richard Sieburth, T. S. Eliot, and John Berryman. This newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Ezra Pound’s Selected Poems is intended to articulate Pound for the twenty-first century. Gone are many of ... Read More about New Selected Poems and Translations

This is the first large-scale English translation of Maurice Sc ve's poem cycle D lie, originally published in Lyons in 1544 and only rediscovered in the early twentieth century as one of the great forgotten masterpieces of French poetry. A contemporary of Sir Thomas Wyatt in England, Sceve occupies... Read More about Emblems of Desire: Selections from the Délie of Maurice Scève