The letters in this collection, published here for the first time and edited by Clark (The American Vision of Robert Penn Warren), span a decade in the life of the critic, poet and novelist Warren Continue reading »
Sixty Years of American Poetry: Celebrating the Anniversary of the Academy of American Poets updates the 1984 anthology published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Academy. Here, 75 poems by Continue reading »
These 13 magisterial literary essays, dating from 1942 to 1973, by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and novelist Warren, contain sevenon Coleridge, Conrad, Faulkner, Frost, Hemingway and Melvillethat were Continue reading »
For those overwhelmed by the recent Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren, the editor of that volume, Brandeis professor of English John Burt, has culled The Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren. As Continue reading »
The grieving unnamed narrator of Mexican writer Navarro’s spellbinding U.S. debut ruminates on the effects of migration. She and her younger brother, Diego, are raised by their Continue reading »
Italian French writer Cagnati (Free Day), who died in 2007, dazzles and devastates in equal measure with this tragic 1976 novel of life in the French countryside. Marie, the Continue reading »
Historical trauma, unusual figures, and marginalized outsiders shape this kaleidoscopic volume of vignettes, prose poems, and fables from Swiss writer Mehr (Words of Continue reading »
Assadi (The Stars Are Not Yet Bells) spins a beautiful and heartbreaking novel out of a Palestinian man’s deathbed reflections. Sufien is five in the spring of 1948 during the Continue reading »