'Con las debidas licencias' is the Spanish version of 'imprimatur' or 'nihil obstat, ' the Latin used for books published under Catholic censorship. In Spanish, the title plays with the semiotic richness of the word 'license, ' meaning 'liberty of action conceded' and 'abuse of freedom.' The poems of "With Leave and License strike the imagination with tenderness and nostalgia, powerful in this intelligent vision of life considered as an ...

Works selected from twenty-five poets from the Balkan regions, based on volumes published during the past twenty years. ...

Anise Koltz was born in Luxemburg in 1928. She is a founding member and Vice-President of the European Academy of Poetry. Her early work was written in German, but after the death of her husband, a late victim of the Nazi occupation, she found herself incapable of writing in German again. Following a period of silence Koltz returned to writing, this time in French. Her poetry is intensely lyrical but with a purity and immediacy that makes hers a ...

Ernst Jandl, born in Austria in 1925, is the most widely known of contemporary Austrian poets; Michael Hamburger is the most respected translator of German literature in the world today. This dual-language collection shows Jandl's poems to be very accessible and often humorous. Hamburger's Introduction places Jandl and his work in the context of contemporary literature and outlines the poetic processes as Jandl sees them. ...

In a major review in "The New Republic of John Hollander's two earlier books, Tesserae and Selected Poetry (both 1993), Vernon Shetley said, "John Hollander's poetry has shown a visionary power just often enough to secure him a place as one of the major figures of our moment." <BR>Figurehead, a lively, varied, and technically dazzling book, confirms the statement made by Henry Taylor in the "Washington Times: "John Hollander revels in ...

In this entirely unique approach to the life of Friedrich Holderlin, The Recalcitrant Art combines the techniques of fiction and nonfiction as it examines the love between the poet and Susette Gontard ("Diotima"). ...

Alain Bosquet, one of this century's finest writers, died in 1998. Many quatrains were found along the margins of his manuscripts. He retained 41 of these, and in all of them one can find his main themes and obsessions. ...

Two timeless comedies by one of France's greatest playwrights: "Tartuffe," a 1664 verse comedy concerning a scoundrel who impersonates a holy man, and the 1670 prose farce "The Bourgeois Gentleman," a lampoon about the superficial characteristics of Parisian nobility. Original French texts with excellent English interpretations on facing pages.<BR> ...

Lope de Vega (1562-1635), widely regarded as the architect of the drama of the Spanish Golden Age, created plots and characters notable for their energy, inventiveness, and dramatic power. This unique edition includes his most famous play, Fuente Ovejuna, as well as The Knight from Olmedo and&lt;br&gt;Punishment without Revenge. Presented here in superb translation, these plays embody the very best of Lope's dramatic art.
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From one of Europe's most prominent and celebrated poets, a collection remarkable for its graceful lyricism. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, Szymborska documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty to capture the wonder of existence. Preface by Mark Strand. Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, winners of the PEN Translation Prize. ...