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Orioles in the Oranges is an exquisitely told story of a destructive modern love, woven...
Kafka's writings are characterized by an extreme sensitivity manifested in absurdity, alienation, and gallows humor,...
Book I of “The Canticles” puts into dialogue -- as dramatic monologues -- those who...
Juhan Liiv (1864-1913) has the same significance for Estonian culture that Federico García Lorca and...
Il y a chez Morisseau un puits d'espérance qu'on dirat intarissable. Sa conception de l'existence...
The 100 wide-ranging and idiosyncratic poems of Absurdity, Woe Is Me, Glory Be confront, grapple...
Love is a very long word explores the parallel, ambiguous realms of freedom and love -- much coveted yet unnatural states of the human mind. Combining the tradition of Balkan lyricism with narrative modernist techniques, these bold poems witness the cross-cultural world of their subjects -- from wounds to hope, struggle to wry triumph. The striking cover image for Love is a very long word is by photographer Marsida Lekaj.
"We sang a very hard song /
for the cords of our throats. /
The sounds were fragile, /
the classroom walls were cold. /
In our hearts a bee was buzzing."
