Lucia Perillo’s hard-edged yet vulnerable poems attempt to reconcile the comic impulse — the humorous deflection of anxiety — with the complications and tragedies of living in a mortal, fragile “meat cage.” Perillo’s surgical honesty —...
“The greatest Afrikaner poet of this generation. … No one elevated the Boer language to such pure beauty and wielded it so devastatingly against the apartheid regime.”—The New Yorker
This eclectic and generous work full of wisdom and wit...
Johann Wolfgang Goethe schrieb im Jahr 1786 sein Bühnenstück Iphigenie auf Tauris nach der Vorlage von Euripides’ Iphigenie bei den Taurern. Das zunächst in Prosa angelegte Werk wurde von ihm dann in Verse...
A mythological masterpiece about dedication and the disintegration of romantic affection.
In this magnificent epic poem, John Gardner renders his interpretation of the ancient story of Jason and Medeia. Confined in the palace of King Creon, and...