The highway became the Red Sea.

We moved through the storm like a sheer valley.

You drove; I looked at you with love.

— from "Storm"

One of the most gifted and readable poets of his time, Adam Zagajewski is proving to be a contemporary classic. Few writers in either poetry or prose can be said to have attained the lucid intelligence and limpid economy of style that have become a matter of course with Zagajewski. It is these qualities, combined with his wry humor, gentle skepticism, and perpetual sense of history's dark possibilities, that have earned him a devoted international following. This collection, gracefully translated by Clare Cavanagh, finds the poet reflecting on place, language, and history. Especially moving here are his tributes to writers, friends known in person or in books-people such as Milosz and Sebald, Brodsky and Blake-which intermingle naturally with portraits of family members and loved ones. Eternal Enemies is a luminous meeting of art and everyday life.

«Estas verko apartenanta al la tutmonda literaturo. Estas amrakonto, en kiu finfine la amata heroino ne sekvas la voĉon de la naturo, sed sin fordonas al maljuna princo. Nekrasov faris tre diligentan laboron, plaĉe plaŭdas la rimoj.» (Aso, La Socialisto, 1931, p: 116).

David Malouf once again shows us why he is one of Australia’s most enduring and respected writers.

David Malouf’s new collection comes to rest at the perfect, still moment of ‘silence, following talk’ after its exploration of memory, imagination and mortality. With elegance and wit, these poems move from profound depths to whimsy and playfulness.

As Malouf interweaves light and dark, levity and gravity, he offers a vision of life on ‘this patch/of earth and its green things’, charting the resilience of beauty amidst stubborn human grace.

«Estas verko apartenanta al la tutmonda literaturo. Estas amrakonto, en kiu finfine la amata heroino ne sekvas la voĉon de la naturo, sed sin fordonas al maljuna princo. Nekrasov faris tre diligentan laboron, plaĉe plaŭdas la rimoj.» (Aso, La Socialisto, 1931, p: 116).

Beautifully translated from the Dutch by David Colmer, the IMPAC Award-winning translator of Gerbrand Bakker’s The Twin, Hugo Claus’s poems are remarkable for their dexterity, intensity of feeling, and acute intelligence. From the richly associative and referential “Oostakker Poems” to the emotional and erotic outpouring of the “mad dog stanzas” in “Morning, You,” from his interpretations of Shakespeare’s sonnets to a modern adaptation of a Sanskrit masterpiece, this volume reveals the breadth and depth of Claus’s stunning output. Perhaps Belgium’s leading figure of postwar Dutch literature, Claus has long been associated with the avant-garde: these poems challenge conventional bourgeois mores, religious bigotry, and authoritarianism with visceral passion.

Egmont ist ein Trauerspiel von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Es wurde 1775 begonnen und war 1788 im Druck.

Egmont spielt in der Stadt Brüssel während des Aufstands der Niederländer gegen die spanische Herrschaft. Teile des niederländischen Adels verbünden sich mit den Protestanten, um die religiöse und politische Unterdrückung durch die Spanier zu beenden. Die Person des „Helden“ Egmont entstand nach dem Vorbild des tatsächlichen Lamoral Graf von Egmond, auf den Goethe bei seinen Studien über die Geschichte der Niederlande stieß. Der literarische Egmont hat mit seinem historischen Vorbild allerdings nur wenig gemeinsam.