Franz Kafka, Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared
Denise Levertov, Selected Poems
Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
Federico García Lorca, Selected Poems
Nathaniel Mackey, Splay Anthem
Javier Marías, Your Face Tomorrow (3 volumes)
Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, Big Sur & The Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask
Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
Pablo Neruda, Love Poems (bilingual), Residence on Earth (bilingual)
George Oppen, New Collected Poems (with CD)
Wilfred Owen, Collected Poems
Michael Palmer, The Company of Moths
Nicanor Parra, Antipoems
Kenneth Patchen, The Walking-Away World
Octavio Paz, The Collected Poems 1957-1987 (bilingual)
Ezra Pound, Cantos, Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
Raymond Queneau, Exercises in Style
Kenneth Rexroth, Written on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Possibility of Being
Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
Guillermo Rosales, The Halfway House
Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
Delmore Schwartz, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn
C.H. Sisson, Selected Poems
Stevie Smith, New Selected Poems
Gary Snyder, Turtle Island
Muriel Spark, Memento Mori
George Steiner, My Unwritten Books
Yoko Tawada, The Naked Eye
Dylan Thomas, Selected Poems 1934-1952
Uwe Timm, The Invention of Curried Sausage
Tomas Tranströmer, The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
Leonid Tsypkin, Summer in Baden-Baden
Enrique Vila-Matas, Bartleby & Co.
Robert Walser, The Assistant
Eliot Weinberger, An Elemental Thing
Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire
William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems, In the American Grain, Paterson
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