Some writers attempt to conceal the literary influences which have shaped their thinking--but not...
Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times....
The National Book Award-winner Patti Smith updates her treasure box of a childhood memoir about '...
This autobiographical novel by the Imagist poet H. D. (1886-1961) is a rare and hallucinatory tre...
In three interconnected scenes, Hiroko Oyamada revisits the same set of characters at different j...
The three pieces gathered in The Strange Case of Rachel K roughly map the genesis of Rachel Kushn...
In 1958, when Henry Miller was elected to membership in the American Institute of Arts and Letter...
In 1944, New Directions brought out Thomas Merton's first book of verse. By the time of his tragi...
It begins with the poetry (French and English en face), including such masterpieces as 'Le Cimeti...
Even in a state of geometrical grace we cannot see time as it is, only as it passes. So the river...
This collection is made up of four sections: 'Far West'-poems of the Western mountain country whe...