Literature

  • Grapevine and Rose: Muslim Oral Ballads from Bosnia-Herzegovina

    Masha Belyavski-Frank

    Grapevine and Rose: Muslim Oral Ballads from Bosnia-Herzegovina

    An important part of Balkan folk literature, oral ballads of the Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina are part of the European tradition of ballads. One of the broad themes that one encounters repeatedly in Bosnian Muslim oral ballads is the stepping outside of...

    $34.95
  • City of Memory: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Polish Poetry

    Mikoś, Michael J

    City of Memory: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Polish Poetry

    City of Memory brings together 122 poems written by 21 authors in the last quarter century. These writers draw upon the deep-rooted tradition of Polish literature established by poets like Kochanowski, Norwid, and Herbert, whose worldviews and...

    $34.95
  • Disenchanted Tailor in “Illusion”

    Kotlerman, Ber

    Disenchanted Tailor in “Illusion”

    A simple tailor, the protagonist of the great Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem’s last theatrical drama, suddenly becomes rich, but loses his money on account of an obscure cinema deal. The author’s son-in-law and assistant, Y.D. Berkowitz,...

    $39.95
  • Poetry & Poetics: A Centennial Tribute to Kiril Taranovsky

    Scherr, Barry

    Poetry & Poetics: A Centennial Tribute to Kiril Taranovsky

    During a distinguished academic career at Belgrade University, UCLA, and Harvard University, Kiril Taranovsky became extraordinarily influential for his contributions to verse theory and for studies devoted to Russian poets, especially those of the...

    $37.95
  • Georgian Poetry: Rustaveli to Galaktion

    Coffin, Lyn

    Georgian Poetry: Rustaveli to Galaktion

    The poetry of Georgia, a country of ancient culture in the South Caucasus, is the crown jewel of its exceptionally rich literary heritage. Secular poetry, having emerged from the fusion of folk poems and religious hymns and homilies of the early...

    $24.95
  • Anna Lisa Crone: Collected Writings Volume 1: Poetry

    Crone, Anna Lisa

    Anna Lisa Crone: Collected Writings Volume 1: Poetry

    This is the first of three volumes which comprise a set of Anna Lisa Crone's Collected Writings. Volume 1 collects her solo writings on Russian poetry, including an excerpt from her monograph on Gavrila Deržavin. Anna Lisa Crone had a 30-year career as a...

    $34.95
  • Against the devil in History book cover

    By Aleksander Wat, Translated by Frank L. Vigoda, Edited and with an Introduction by Gwido Zlatkes

    Against the Devil in History: Poems, Short Stories, Essays, Fragments

    Aleksander Wat. This extraordinary poet can be seen against the background of three periods of the 20th century. Born in 1900 to a Jewish merchant family in Warsaw, he became an anarchist and futurist, edited a communist journal, and was imprisoned by...

    $44.95
  • Murder Ballad and other legends book cover

    by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Timothy West

    Murder Ballads and Other Legends

    “Some texts, after I’ve written them, have woken me up in the night so that I break out in a sweat and jump out of bed.” With this confession Bohumil Hrabal concludes Murder Ballads and Other Legends, a genre-bending collection of...

    $19.95
  • Look at Him book cover

    Anna Starobinets, translated by Katherine E. Young

    Look at Him

    Journalist, scriptwriter, and novelist Anna Starobinets-often called "Russia's Stephen King"-is best known for her work in horror and her writing for children. In this groundbreaking memoir, Starobinets chronicles the devastating loss of her unborn son...

    $19.95
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