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A collection of 15 poems published, soon after Pasternak won the Nobel Prize, by English literary publisher and book seller, Peter Russell, with a Foreword by Hugh Macdiarmid.

Limited to five hundred numbered copies of which nos. 1-250 are signed by the poet and translator.

Memory Rose into Threshold Speech gathers the first four books of poet Paul Celan's oeuvre, written between 1952 and 1963.

The poetry of Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) was written during the period of greatest upheaval in Russia. Yet despite political persecution Pasternak continued to show the vital fidelity of the poet to his work. This varied selection includes the early lyrics, the post-Revolution epics and the sad tranquility of the later poems - which have a continuity of themes and values and encapsulate Pasternak's vivid sensual response to the world surrounding him.

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In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that "would be a bit more sober & more spacious" than his poems. And yet, in his life-time Celan published very little of such "more spacious" work -- i.e. prose -- except for two essays that were public award-acceptance speeches, and a few occasional bits and pieces often published, or better, hidden away in obscure places. It is only with this volume, edited by Barbara Wiedemann and Bertrand Badiou, that Celan's multifaceted achievements as a prose writer can be discovered. For example, in the early language games of surrealist inspiration. In the biting, bitter aphorisms, "counterlights" thrown on those concrete dates from and toward which his poems are written -- since the early sixties we are dealing with texts that explicitly exhibit their contemporaneity. Or in the poetological critique of the prejudices with which the volumes of his poetry were read. Among the most surprising and appealing of these prose writings are the narratives, the "stories" and dialogues with the background of his Jewish fate. This English version of Microliths follows the first German edition of 2005. The sole difference is in the final section, the commentaries, which is a shortened version of Wiedemann & Badiou's original commentary, with some additional material by Pierre Joris. The translator, who this year concludes a 52-year involvement with bringing Celan's oeuvre into English, & the publisher are honored to release this book -- the only major collection of Paul Celan's prose -- in 2020, his 100th birth- & 50th death-year.

"The classical traditionTelugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India, is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. In this volume Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman have brought together mythological, religious, and secular texts by twenty major poets who wrote between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries, providing an authoritative volume overview of one of the world's most creative poetic traditions. An informative, engaging introduction fleshes out the history of Telugu literature, situating its poets in relation to significant literary themes and historical developments and discussing the relationship between Telugu and the classical literature and poetry of Sanskrit."--Amazon.