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Some Things Words Can Do [Includes A History of Small Life on a Windy Planet, orig. pub. in 1993]

3 reviews
Martha Collins

Sheep Meadow, 1998

Play leads the way
Normally one expects linguistic play not only as the technique but also as the focus of LANGUAGE-canted poets, but in this book Martha Collins is after fleshier referential game. There's play, some of it for play's sake ("Cloud-Play for Four Hands"), but much of it opens onto raw vistas, exposing the seriousness inherent in (mis)using language ("Testimony", "Background/Information", "Little ...

Selected Poems

2 reviews
Luis. Cernuda

Sheep Meadow, 1999

An underrated european poet
Although some other spanish poets such as Federico García Lorca or Rafael Alberti are more popular in America, among the spaniards Cernuda is considered to be the best one. Why do i have titled an "european poet"? Because he probably was the most european of all the poets of what it's been called " La Generación del 27". He always loved the Coleridge, Donne, ... you can follow that trace in ...

The Bag of Broken Glass

4 reviews
Yerra Sugarman

Sheep Meadow Press, 2008

Elegant, lyrical, a universal voice.......
Yerra Sugarman's work here is reminiscent of an Old Testament psalmist, giving voice to the dark peripheries and wounds of life with lyrical grace and quiet elegance. Through skillful poetic forms and simple words, she creates powerful moments in time. Whether inhabiting the ancient past, detailing a troubling presence, or looking to an unknown future, she speaks with a universal voice. ...

The Book of Disquietude by Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon (Aspects of Portugal)

2 reviews
Fernando Pessoa

Sheep Meadow, 1996

Wonderful and Amazing...should be required Modernist reading
This is a beautiful, amorphous book which is different everytime one reads it--regardless of the translation. What I mean is...where one stops while reading changes the book...it is 'literally' a different book everytime one reads. This translation is the best by far of those available, I also believe it to be the most scholarly. I have only one proviso: Please, if you can manage it, find a ...

The Voice of Robert Desnos: Selected Poems

2 reviews
Robert Desnos

Sheep Meadow, 2005

The Hidden Voice....
it's sad how many people/writers don't know the work of robert desnos. one of the greatest poetical voices of the 1900's. not only is his poetry great, his life (and how he sacrificed) is a beautiful story.

But a Passage in Wilderness

3 reviews
Margo Berdeshevsky

Sheep Meadow, 2007

essential poems
These are bardic poems, but not at all presumptuous or abstract. Berdeshevsky's earned them by her life fully lived, her compassion, and the music that makes them poetry. They're also personal poems, but not at all narcissistic or obscure. They represent a full, grand consciousness both anchored in our own shared moment and illuminating it. An essential book, the best possible companion in the ...

Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers

3 reviews
Yehuda Amichai

Sheep Meadow, 1997

A warrior poet unbound
Yehuda Amichai is quite probably one of the last warrior poets. He is a veteran of three wars and has tasted the bitter fruit of human suffering and the loss of love. His knack for expounding both lament and spiritual awareness through his knowledge of the Tanakh are by all means, impressive. This book is a good introduction to some of his very straight forward and powerful work. His poems on ...

Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems (Sheep Meadow Poetry)

5 reviews
Yehuda Amichai

Sheep Meadow, 1992

do you remember the taste of heartbreak? you will.
Yehuda Amichai's poetry is so close to the marrow of grief andlove and hope and longing that when you put down this book, you willhave loved and lost and wept with him. The rooms he has inhabited will be your rooms. And maybe, just maybe, is she isn't already, the city Yerushalayim will be your city as well. Buy this book...

HIV, Mon Amour

3 reviews
Tory Dent

Sheep Meadow, 2000

Best Book of Poetry of the Year
This is a tremendous book of poetry that's already won one major prize and I read in the New York Times last week that it is nominated for the upcoming National Critics Circle Award. I have to admit I was completely stunned by it and think very, very highly of this book. More than any other poet that comes out of the "New York School" started by Frank O'Hara and continued by all sorts of ...

House of Affection

2 reviews
Wendy Wood Kwitny

Sheep Meadow, 2004

A poignant picture of love in the midst of death
Wendy Wood Kwitny's book is moving and beautiful, both her poems and her prose. While writing of the heartbreaking death of her husband Jon, whose cancer was diagnosed shortly after the birth of their second son, she shows how her love as a mother carried her through. The poems document many moods and thoughts, creating depth in just a few words. One poem begins: "In his absence, I have found ...

Clouded Sky

1 review
Miklos Radnoti

Sheep Meadow, 2003

Revelations from the other side of death
Testament to the power of art in the face of death, taking a lyrical stance amid horrors--Miklos Radnoti affirms good things of life: joys of lovers, lushness of the physical world, power of human perception and of language. He views Spain of 1937 from Paris as: . . . black-winged war, whipping us, Terror flies across the border. No one sows, no one reaps on the other side. Grapes ...

Arshile Gorky: The Main, the Time, the Idea

1 review
Harold Rosenberg

Sheep Meadow, 1981

praise from a top Abstract Expressionist enthusiast
Take a tip from Gorky, he always carried a small book or reproductions of favorite painters in his pocket. This is a good book to start this habit with the Grove series on modern artists.There is a Guston ,a Dubuffet an Arp in this series as well. Rosenberg knew most of the A.E. painters and Dekooning intimately so what he has to say about Gorky comes from a good source the Dekoonings (Bill and ...

Alternatives to History

1 review
Jay Ladin

Sheep Meadow, 2003

Impressive and original free-verse poetry
Alternatives To History is a collection of impressive and original free-verse poetry by Jay Ladin that acknowledges the ruthlessness of war, terror, and death, yet offers genuine tribute to the sheer perseverance of life. A chapter of poems referring time and again to the "Situation" of ongoing Israeli-Palestinian violence is particularly insightful and quite memorable in its disturbing capture ...

Collected poems, 1935-1992

1 review
F. T Prince

Sheep Meadow Press, 1993

Prince of a Poet
Possibly the most unappreciated poetic genius of our time, F. T. Prince, a Renaissance scholar who has published many works on Shakespeare and Milton in particular, is a master of language and style whose traditional forms, including the rarely seen Old- English-based technique of flyting, provide the backdrop for veritable poetic vision. Prince's work gracefully embodies the spiritual ...

Conversations with Sheryl Sutton: The Novel of a Dialogue

1 review
Janos Pilinszky

Sheep Meadow, 1992

the meeting of a man and a woman from two different worlds
Sheryl Sutton, a black woman, African American, born in New Orleans in 1950 and Janos Pilinszky, a white man, a Hungarian Roman Catholic, born in 1921 meet in Paris in 1973. She performs in the avant-garde theater masterpiece Deafman Glance by Robert Wilson. He is a well- known poet who spends in Paris several months every year and was amazed by the beauty of Deafman Glance as many other ...

Collected Prose

1 review
Paul Celan

Sheep Meadow, 1990

Remarkable! A thin volume that will blow you away.
A collection of prose, some unbelievably brief in length, by Paul Celan, one of Europe's foremost poets. Celan, who was scarred by the concentration camps, pushed language to its every edge -- and beyond -- in his poems. The essay "Meridian," in this volume, is his longest commentary on what poetry is, and what it does. It is a remarkable essay, dense yet readable, provocative, erudite, ...

The Blind Man and the Beauty and Other Stories

1 review
Arturo Loria

Sheep Meadow, 2005

Skillfully translated from the Italian
Skillfully translated from the Italian, The Blind Man & The Beauty And Other Stories is an anthology by the Premio Fracchia award-winning author Arturo Loria (1902-1957). A backdrop of seemingly ordinary settings belies extraordinary dissections of characters and crossroad quandaries. Tales include "The Anatomy Lesson", "The Arabian Cafe", "The Sleeping Companion", "The Sick Hotelkeeper", and ...

Between Two Stones: Poems

1 review
Joshua Weitz

Sheep Meadow, 2002

brilliant joshua
I haven't read every poem here, but what I've read is excellent. I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Mr Weitz several years ago & having a few conversations about life and literature with him. What can I say but that he is a talented young man, a poet and a physicist (no, really - Ivy League and all). Poetry doesn't sell, but you should still buy his book. I didn't nickname him WonderBoy for ...

Brothers, I Loved You All: (Poems, 1969-1977)

1 review
Hayden Carruth

Sheep Meadow, 1978

Perhaps Carruth's finest work.
Hayden Carruth, Brothers, I Loved You All (Faculty Press, 1978) Why must it be such a truism that the best books of any relatively prolific poet must be published by small, out-of-the-way presses with no distribution? Bukowski's Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window, for example, or Lifshin's A New Film in Love with the Dead. Simic's Nine Poems, Cronshey's Afternoon in the Museum ...

The Book of Anna

1 review
J. Ladin

Sheep Meadow, 2007

Something to Believe In
This is an astonishing book. It is not so much "about" the Holocaust as about the requirements of surviving something that dismantles every shred of coherence and faith in the world. The voice of Anna Ach Asher who both tells her own story and "writes" the poems is unflinchingly honest, bitter, witty, brilliant, and, almost against her will, lyrical at its core. I am neither a Jew nor a ...

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