A delightful account of the seasons in a house and its garden near the sea, a domestic idyll of hardy plants and neighbors, outer and inner weather, love and loss, and taking stock of the life we’ve madeThe delicious long-form poem “The Vineyard” is set in and around the quasi-fictional Long Island village of Oyster Ponds, where the poet spends the summer months. In free-flowing lines and pages that turn with the calendar, the poem unspools impressions that seem co...

L'AMORE, L'INTRIGO, LA PASSIONE LETTERARIA: IL ROMANZO-EVENTO DI UN PROTAGONISTA DELL'EDITORIA INTERNAZIONALE Paul Dukach è destinato a raccogliere l’eredità di Homer Stern, uno degli ultimi editori indipendenti di New York, che in mezzo secolo ha saputo costruire un catalogo importante. Approdato negli uffici polverosi della casa editrice P&S, in Union Square, Paul impara dal suo capo, spregiudicato e spavaldo, come muoversi nell’affascinante mondo dei libri, come conquis...

The new novel from the acclaimed poet and publisher asks fundamental questions about love and sex, friendship and rivalry, desire and power, and the age-old dance of benevolence and attraction between teacher and student.Sam Brandt is a long-term denizen of Connecticut’s renowned Leverett School. As an English teacher he has dedicated his life to providing his students with the same challenges, encouragement, and sense of possibility that helped him and his friends...

A delightful account of the seasons in a house and its garden near the sea, a domestic idyll of hardy plants and neighbors, outer and inner weather, love and loss, and taking stock of the life we’ve madeThe delicious long-form poem “The Vineyard” is set in and around the quasi-fictional Long Island village of Oyster Ponds, where the poet spends the summer months. In free-flowing lines and pages that turn with the calendar, the poem unspools impressions that seem co...

Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent publishing houses in New York, whose shabby offices belie the treasures of its list.Paul remains obsessed by one dazzling writer: poet Ida Perkins, whose outsize life and audacious verse have shaped America‘s contemporary literary landscape, and whose longtime publisher happens to be Purcell & Stern’s biggest rival.When Paul finally meets Ida, at her secluded Venetian palazzo, she entrusts him with...

Paul Dukach est l’héritier présomptif de Purcell & Stern, l’une des dernières maisons d’édition américaines indépendantes, dont les bureaux miteux, au cœur de New York, dissimulent un catalogue fabuleux. Il apprend les ficelles du métier aux côtés du flamboyant président de la maison, Homer Stern : comment s’attirer les bonnes grâces d’un agent littéraire au cours d’un déjeuner en ville, survivre au milieu des requins de l’édition à la foire de Francfort et, surtout, ménager les egos fragi...

An emotionally riveting collection that tells a powerful story of passion, loss, and transformation.Left-handed unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires the unnamed narrator, who at midlife is telling the tale.These poems—decisive, wrenching, exquisite—show an overpowering force, at once disruptive and creative, invading a settled existence. They...

Ésta es una novela sobre libros y pasiones. Una emocionada evocación y un retrato punzante del mundillo editorial neoyorquino. La historia de un joven que intenta abrirse camino; de la rivalidad entre dos titanes de la vieja guardia, cuando el de editor se consideraba todavía un «oficio de caballeros»; y de una poeta legendaria que vive retirada en un palazzo veneciano. Paul Dukach trabaja en las destartaladas oficinas de Purcell & Stern, prestigiosa editorial independiente cuyas ventanas ...

The new novel from the acclaimed poet and publisher asks fundamental questions about love and sex, friendship and rivalry, desire and power, and the age-old dance of benevolence and attraction between teacher and student.Sam Brandt is a long-term denizen of Connecticut’s renowned Leverett School. As an English teacher he has dedicated his life to providing his students with the same challenges, encouragement, and sense of possibility that helped him and his friends become themselves here h...

This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents itself. Naples is a mysterious metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to outsiders, and also to the Neapolitans themselves. Its very impenetrableness is what makes it so deliriously and irresi...

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways. Though he died young, his influence was enormous, and it is no exaggeration to say that all modern poetry, not only in Italian, derives in some way from his work.Leopardi's poetry...

Fifty autobiographical short stories about childhood, life in Italy before and after World War II, and growing old in Milan by the winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the most celebrated Italian poets of the twentieth century.The great poet Eugenio Montale was also a remarkable writer of prose whose stories appeared regularly in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Butterfly of Dinard is a collection of fifty of those st...