This collection includes two books by Baudelaire: ‘Prose Poems’ and the programmatic ‘The Flowers of Evil,’ which brought the author widespread international fame. This manifesto of French symbolism was first published in 1857 and caused a stormy public reaction. For the poet, the scandal ended with a court fine, the book's circulation was seized, and the most ‘indecent’ poems were removed...

This is the main collection of poems by Walt Whitman, the outstanding American classic of the nineteenth century and the progenitor of free verse and a humanist. Whitman supplemented and reissued the collection throughout his life. The poems are presented in classic translations by true masters of the word: Korney Chukovsky, Samuel Marshak, and Mikhail Zenkevich.

Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, belief, longing, and grief, the poems of My Heresies catalog a personal and familial history originating in Bucharest, Romania and landing in Birmingham, Alabama. Whether through sardonic takes on old Bible myths or homage paid to French-Romanian poet Paul Celan, Stefanescu's poems are laden in subtext, in imagery sometimes abstract and lush,...

Reading these poems and looking at these photographs, it feels like you've seen it all somewhere else. A small town no one dreams of visiting, with a train station and a bus stop. A fellow traveler with a bag of London bags packed by his wife. An apartment rental ad: a TV always by the window, a sofa, two armchairs against the wall. Little things that never seem important, but only they can...

Imagine is a new collection of poems, featuring texts written between 2017 and 2024.

У цій книжці зібрано все найкраще з творчого доробку Миколи Бажана, одного з двох відомих українських номінантів на Нобелівську премію з літератури. І якби її присудили українському поетові, то у формулюванні написали б: за критичний розум, творчу енергію, інтелектуальну глибину, ліричну силу, щирість і людяність. За перо, гостре і точне, як скальпель. За вміння протягнути нитку з минулого в...

A bilingual poetry collection translated from the Ukrainian by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, Letters of the Alphabet Go to War is Lesyk Panasiuk’s remarkable account of living in Bucha, Ukraine, during the apex of war and brutality at the hands of the Russian military. The result is a tremendous work that The Guardian describes as embodying ‘the idea of the rupture of language through the...

Julia Kolchinsky’s Parallax offers a lyrical narrative of parenting a neurodiverse child under the shadow of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the poet’s birthplace. As her child expresses a fascination with death and violence, Kolchinsky struggles to process the war unfolding far away, on the same soil where so many of her ancestors perished during the Holocaust.

Diese Ausgabe der »Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek - Arbeitstexte für Schule und Studium« bietet nicht nur eine repräsentative Auswahl der Gedichte Paul Celans, sondern im Anhang auch die für das Verständnis des Werks höchst aufschlussreiche Büchner-Preisrede »Der Meridian«. Ergänzt wird die Edition von einem Kommentar, der alle für das Verständnis der Gedichte erforderlichen Informationen enthält:...

»Was diese Gedichte an Irritationen, an Desorientierung auch ausdrücken mögen, sie zeigen alle die Unbeirrbarkeit an der Fähigkeit dieses Ausdrückenkönnens. Sie zeigen eine Meisterschaft in der Beherrschung der Mittel, die Celan ausgebildet hat, wie kaum ein Band von ihm vorher.« Helmut Heißenbüttel

An avid reader of English-language poets such as William Carlos Williams and Stanley Kunitz, Ilchenko is one of the best Ukrainian poets writing in free verse today. His poetry is associative, flitting, and fragmentary. At times he does not form complete sentences in his poems and links words together into phrases before shifting into another thought or idea. The language of his poetry has a...

Three by Tsvetaeva collects three dazzling and devastating reckonings with love and the end of love by a poet celebrated for the unequaled verbal inventiveness and emotional intensity of her work. ‘Backstreets,’ translated into English for the first time, is a retelling of a Russian fairy tale that offers a witches’ brew of temptation, bodily transformation, marriage, and murder. ‘Poem of the...