‘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 collection of poetry and authobiographic piece in prose devoted to Vladimir Mayakovsky.

Sergei Prilutsky is a punk writer, virtuoso stylist and hooligan pupil of the ‘swamp glamour society’. A piercing lyricist and a desperate translator from the unbearable to the human. Author of the books ‘Hero of the Age of Stability’, ‘Patriotism for Dummies’, ‘Nineties Forever’, ‘Nothing Scary’, etc. Born in Brest. Since the end of the zero years he has lived in Ukraine. He survived the...

Masha Kaleka (1907–1975) emigrated three times. The first time as a child: her family fled pogroms from Poland to Germany. The second time in 1938, from Berlin. The Nazis recognized her first poetry collections as ‘harmful and undesirable,’ and she emigrated to the United States. And later to Israel. She escaped the worst. But homesickness weighed on her until her death. She never found a...

Unlike the more earnest English Romantic poets, followers of the Romantic movement in Germany valued wit and humor along with beauty. Admiration for nature is also prominent in their poetry, and in particular the dramatic forests which still cover large areas of Germany. Love and death crop up repeatedly as themes in such famous works as Goethe’s ‘Elf King’ and Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde....

The Polish poet Ryszard Krynicki, born in a Nazi labor camp in Austria in 1943, became one of the most prominent poets of the New Wave generation of 1968, his poetry offering what Adam Michnik has called ‘a strange and beautiful marriage of Joseph Conrad's heroic ethics with a great metaphysical perspective.’ Krynicki is the author of a body of work marked at once by the solitude of a poète...

In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism. He takes photographs from newspapers and popular magazines, and adds short lapidary verses to each in a unique attempt to understand the truth of war using mass media. Pictures of catastrophic bombings, propaganda portraits of leading Nazis, scenes...

A term of physiology and neurology, algometry is the science of measuring pain. However, it is not physical pain that Iryna Vikyrchak examines in Algometry, but her experiences growing up in Western Ukraine in the ’90s, emphasizing emotional sensitivity and inner strength, which give way to a philosophical and lyrical reflection on pain, suffering, and empathy as a measurement of our humanness....

The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and...

— Emily Dickinson is one of the most beloved, talented, and frequently quoted American poets. Unfortunately, fame came to her only posthumously. — The poet's creative legacy is truly enormous and includes one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five poems – all of which were discovered in Dickinson's dresser after her death. — This edition includes the best poems of Emily Dickinson –...