Yuri Andrukhovych is one of the most compelling and influential contemporary Ukranian writers, the author of a body of work that ranges from the novel to the essay to poetry and that stands out in every genre for being thoughtful, playful, free-spirited, and astonishingly new. His career took off in the waning years of the Soviet Union, when underground artists and writers and the rumbles of...

In Serhiy Zhadan's book, readers will find poems written over many years, directly or indirectly related to the railway. Here, the station square comes to dreams, people who look like snails sleep at stations and carry their own homes on their shoulders, soldiers go to the East to defend the country and return to their families. To the soft clatter of wheels and late horns, passengers count...

Райнер Мария Рильке – один из крупнейших поэтов XX столетия. В его стихах нашлось место самым разнообразным мыслям, чувствам, фантазиям: это и «одиночество среди толпы», и скитания по Европе, любовь женщин, чтение волшебных историй, мир искусства, античные мифы и старинные легенды, воспоминания о детстве, сновидения, мечты, религиозные прозрения… Уроженец Праги, писавший по-немецки, он...

Well into his third decade as a poet Gari Light uses his mature voice in Confluences to translate multicultural images and locales… These English poems by Gari have the same energy and elegance as his Russian poems, and they are enriched by his multilayered, polyphonic use of the English language to express thoughts and feelings with sophistication and humor… These poems are like seascapes, or...

Even though the geography of where the poems have been written tends to be quite vast, ranging from New York to Moscow, Kiev, Paris, London and Prague, the author appears to be spiritually connected to a certain metropolis on the South-Western tip of Lake Michigan, which became his American home in the early 1980's, and where he always appears to find his way back, at least for the time being.

‘Trajectories of Returns’ is a collection that includes poems written from the early eighties to the present day. In addition to a large number of new poems, it also features selected texts from the author's previous books, the print runs of which have already sold out: the collection ‘Returns’, which went through two editions in Kyiv in 2002 and 2005, and the collection ‘Trajectories’, printed...

Das lyrische Werk von Rainer Maria Rilke ist unvergänglich schön. Es altert nicht, erscheint universell und kommt nie aus der Mode. Rilkes Gedichte erobern mühelos jede junge Generation, denn sie verdichten immer aufs Neue Erfahrung und Empfindung, Suche, Ahnung und Erkenntnis. Kaum ein von Poesie infizierter Mensch geht durchs Leben, ohne sich ein Stück des Weges von Rilke begleiten zu lassen....

Sofort erkennt man, dass diese Zeilen nur aus der Feder eines großen Literaten stammen können, hier aus derjenigen Theodor Storms. Doch der norddeutsche Schriftsteller Klabund hat nicht nur die klassischen Trinklieder seiner Heimat zusammengetragen, sondern über 2000 Jahre Weltliteratur nach ihnen durchsucht. Und so entstand 1920 erstmals diese Sammlung von Sauf- und Trinkliedern der großen...

A native of Prague who wrote in German, he deeply felt his involvement in European culture and firmly believed that ‘the inner world of man is valuable, it is full of secret meanings and senses that only he understands.’ This edition contains Rilke’s most significant poetry books in brilliant translations by Vladimir Mikushevich.

In 1899 and 1900 Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) visited Russia. The impressions from this trip led to the publication of the ‘Book of Hours’, a very unusual work written on behalf of an Orthodox monk. In addition to the ‘Book of Hours’, this edition includes translations of other works by Rilke, Francis of Assisi and Angelus Silesius, allowing a broader look at the work of the German poet....

Anna Akhmatova was born near Odesa in 1889. Christened as Anna Gorenko, she adopted her penname from the family of her mother. She attended school in Tsarskoe Selo and lived most of her life in Saint Petersburg, the city with which so much of her poetry is intimately connected. She frequented the Tower, the famous literary salon of the symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanov, and in 1910 she married...