The Divine Comedy - Prijzen

Women in Praise of the Sacred

"Hirshfield's current collection brings together . . . an astonishing array of women writers from the 22nd century BC poet Enheduanna to Nelly Sachs and Anna Akhmatova."--Library Journal

PC Paradiso

This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optic...

Sailing the Forest

A selection of poems spanning the career of a poet of the uncanny Filled with haunting and visionary poems, Sailing the Forest is a selection of the finest work from an essential voice in contemporary...

Odyssey

The Trojan War is over and Odysseus, the cunning king of Ithaca, sets out for home, his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. It proves a long, 10-year journey, fraught with dangers, from Polyphemus,...

The Truth in Mustard

Homage to Paul Celan

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Art. Jewish Studies. If there is a country named Celania—as Julia Kristeva once proposed—its holy texts are filled with doubt, and they overcome this doubt almost successf...

Poems (Classic Reprint)

The Laundromat Essay

'I know the owner of the laundromat,' reflects the narrator of this extended poem, 'but can't remember his name (which could be for many reasons).' The poem is then swept up in narrative tangents and...

Sleep Toward Heaven

In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen awaits her execution on Death Row. In New York, Franny, a doctor the same age, plans her wedding and tries to resist the urge to run. In Austin, Celia,...

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

Nineteen of Plath's surviving stories, the earliest dating from 1952, are joined by five of her best pieces of journalism and selected excerpts from her diaries. Reissue.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark

With 2003 marking the beginning of the Lewis and Clark expedition bicentennial celebration, this journal is now reissued in a beautiful new Penguin Classics package.

The Magic Fox

It's up to the Secret Rescuers to outwit Sir Fitzroy and save a baby fox in this fourth book in the adorable Secret Rescuers series.Poppy loves spending time with a family of magic foxes, especially t...