A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

  Franz Kafka, Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared

  Denise Levertov, Selected Poems

  Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

  Federico García Lorca, Selected Poems

  Nathaniel Mackey, Splay Anthem

  Javier Marías, Your Face Tomorrow (3 volumes)

  Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

  Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, Big Sur & The Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

  Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

  Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

  Pablo Neruda, Love Poems (bilingual), Residence on Earth (bilingual)

  George Oppen, New Collected Poems (with CD)

  Wilfred Owen, Collected Poems

  Michael Palmer, The Company of Moths

  Nicanor Parra, Antipoems

  Kenneth Patchen, The Walking-Away World

  Octavio Paz, The Collected Poems 1957-1987 (bilingual)

  Ezra Pound, Cantos, Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

  Raymond Queneau, Exercises in Style

  Kenneth Rexroth, Written on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese

  Rainer Maria Rilke, The Possibility of Being

  Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

  Guillermo Rosales, The Halfway House

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  Delmore Schwartz, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

  W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn

  C.H. Sisson, Selected Poems

  Stevie Smith, New Selected Poems

  Gary Snyder, Turtle Island

  Muriel Spark, Memento Mori

  George Steiner, My Unwritten Books

  Yoko Tawada, The Naked Eye

  Dylan Thomas, Selected Poems 1934-1952

  Uwe Timm, The Invention of Curried Sausage

  Tomas Tranströmer, The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems

  Leonid Tsypkin, Summer in Baden-Baden

  Enrique Vila-Matas, Bartleby & Co.

  Robert Walser, The Assistant

  Eliot Weinberger, An Elemental Thing

  Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust

  Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire

  William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems, In the American Grain, Paterson

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