Merrill Moore was a key member of the Fugitive group of poets, a group of then unknown poets who met to read and criticize each other’s work and that included John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate and Robert Penn Warren. David R. Slavitt, poet and novelist, has distilled and presented the very best of Moore’s work from amongst the many published and unpublished poems available. This ‘re-introduction’ will help establish Merrill Moore as an overlooked master of form and fluency in the modern American poem.

Merrill Moore: XxX: 100 Poems (Memento)

Literature & Fiction

Moore, Merril

History & Criticism

Little Island Press

Situated between Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound, Sadakichi Hartmann is one of the missing links in American poetry. Friend to both poets, he influenced a whole generation of writers and artists in New York. Edited and introduced by Dr Floyd Cheung, this first-ever collected poems of Sadakichi Hartmann will help uncover one of modern poetry’s most unique and overlooked characters.

Sadakichi Hartmann: Collected Poems, 1886-1944 (Memento)

Hartmann, Sadakichi

Poetry

He was E. M Forster’s ‘favorite contemporary poet’. W. H Auden extolled his ‘first-class visual imagination’. Stephen Spender considered his output ‘among the best English poems written in the present century’. Yet for most readers, William Plomer (1903—1973) is now a faintly-remembered name. Born in Pietersburg, South Africa, Plomer settled in London in 1929, where he went on to occupy a central position in English letters. By the time of his death he had published ten books of poetry. In a voice impersonal and strange, Plomer’s best poems reveal a mind that delights in the ‘sensory, pictorial and plastic’ (though not, as he thought, at the expense of the metaphysical).

William Plomer: Selected Poems (Memento)

PLOMER, William

Transnational long before the term gained currency, Lola Ridge (1873-1941) was one of the most notable poets writing in America from the publication of her first book, The Ghetto, in 1918 until her death, inauspiciously, shortly before America’s entry into the Second World War. Included are the complete texts of her first three books of poems, The Ghetto, Sun-Up, and Red Flag, as well as the never before published manuscript Verses (1905), the book of early poems she sought to publish in Australia before departing for America in 1907. With its publication, Lola Ridge’s important place in the history of twentieth century poetry takes a significant step toward being recognized and restored.

To the Many: Collected Early Works

Ridge, Lola

<div>By turns surreal, political, folkloric, and domestic, Shortening the Candle's Wick is a window into the imaginative world of a poetic relationship. For more than 40 years, husband and wife Andres Ehin and Ly Seppel lived together in Estonia writing poetry. Ehin's style is that of the surrealist--"a connector of the unconnectable"--while Seppel is a poet of the fleeting moment, the glance of language across it. Translator Ilmar Lehtpere has compiled a selection of translations in the form of a poetic dialogue between husband and wife, incorporating larger discussions of poet and language, nation, and self.</div>

Shortening the Candle's Wick (Transits)

Ehin, Andres

Seppel, Ly

<div>Ian Fleming's Bond meets the lyricism of Rimbaud in this fast-paced, genre-defying debut, encompassing six decades and three continents of absurd and often life-threatening experience. At once personal and hauntingly universal, Extravagant Stranger&nbsp;is the compelling memoir of self-professed "global scalliwag" Daniel Roy Connelly - former diplomat, theatre director, Shakespeare scholar and conscience-stricken father. Laced with international intrigue and hilarious moments of well-aimed self-scrutiny, here is a book - like the life it relates - truly without comparison.</div>

Extravagant Stranger: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Connelly, Daniel Roy

Arts & Literature

Lish’s latest collection of exquisitely crafted fictions sees a narrator – variously 'Gordon', 'I', 'He' – approaching the precipice of old age. Against the backdrop of White Plains hospital, Lish skewers together memories of long-past infidelities and betrayals, on-going friendships, the relative comfort of household chairs, to forge a series of interlinked hypnotic and consistently hilarious narratives. White Plains is Lish at his sharpest, tackling his perennial subject – the memory of memory itself – with spellbinding mastery.

White Plains: Pieces & Witherlings

Lish, Gordon

United States

Relentless, urgent and above all musical, this expertly crafted debut novel recasts the tragic story of the failed Narváez expedition—a calamitous attempt to establish Spanish colonies along the Gulf Coast—in bracing, beautiful language. A timely narrative of botched colonialism, The Way of Florida radically reimagines the parameters and responsibilities of the historical novel. Of the 300 crew sent inland to explore, only four survived an eight-year ordeal. Their story comes down to us via La Relación, the ofﬁcial report published in 1542, as well as many other subsequent retellings. Persson’s The Way of Florida is arguably the most linguistically rich, sinuous, and maybe even heroic.

The Way of Florida: A Novel

Persson, Russell

Gordon Lish's latest work of exquisitely crafted fiction sees a narrator - variously "Gordon!," "I," "He" - approaching the precipice of old age. Against the backdrop of White Plains hospital, Lish skewers together memories of long-past infidelities and betrayals, on-going friendships, the death of his wife and the relative comfort of household chairs, to forge a series of interlinked hypnotic and consistently hilarious narratives. White Plains is Lish at his sharpest, tackling his perennial subject – the memory of memory itself – with spellbinding mastery.

Darker with the Lights on: Stories

Hayden, David

Genre Fiction

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Merrill Moore: XxX: 100 Poems (Memento)

Sadakichi Hartmann: Collected Poems, 1886-1944 (Memento)

William Plomer: Selected Poems (Memento)

To the Many: Collected Early Works

Shortening the Candle's Wick (Transits)

Extravagant Stranger: A Memoir

White Plains: Pieces & Witherlings

The Way of Florida: A Novel

White Plains: Pieces & Witherlings

Darker with the Lights on: Stories