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Craig Raine`s novel in verse tells the stories of two families--the Pasternaks and the Raines--and describes the ways in which they are touched by history.

On the Blue Shore of Silencecelebrates the centenary of the birth of Pablo Neruda, one of the most widely read and best-loved poets of the twentieth century.Although anthologies of Neruda's works abound,On the Blue Shore of Silence is the first to collect some of his poems on the sea. At times passionate and at other times peaceful, the poems chosen for this collection -- presented in bilingual format -- are meant to offer readers the experience of what it would have been like to sit with Neruda at Isla Negra, the view of the sea endless, the pulse of the waves, eternal.With English translations by his favored translator, Alastair Reid, and stunning paintings from the artist Mary Heebner,On the Blue Shore of Silenceis a new cornerstone in Neruda's body of work, expertly weaving together poet, artist, and reader.A la Orilla Azul del Silencio celebra el centenario del nacimiento de Pablo Neruda, probablemente uno de los poetasmás leídos del siglo veinte, y sin lugar a dudas, uno de los más queridos.Aunque existe un sinnúmero de antologías de la poesía de Neruda, A la Orilla Azul del Silencio es la primera en reunir algunos de sus más bellos poemas sobre el mar. Algunas veces apasionados, otras veces serenos, los poemas de este libro -- presentado en formato bilingüe -- ofrecen al lector la posibilidad de imaginarse lo que habría sido sentarse con Neruda en Isla Negra frente al mar infinito, oyendo el eterno ir y venir de las olas.Con traducciones al inglés hechas por Alastair Reid,su traductor predilecto, y las extraordinarias pinturas de laartista Mary Heebner, A la Orilla Azul del Silencio es un nuevo pilar de la obra de Neruda, que combina con habilidad las sensibilidades del poeta, la artista y el lector.

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Expressions of passion and heartbreak, written by Japanese court lady Murasaki Shikubu a thousand years ago, transcend time and culture in this new translation of poetry from the first 33 chapters of The Tale of Genji.
Over 400 tanka poems describe the intricate loveplay and erotic wordplay between men and women of noble birth, consumed with sexual desire and aesthetic longing.
With plot synopses and annotations.

This collection of 150 poems includes selections by William Shakespeare, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Frost, and Ted Hughes. Also included are the works of Caribbean, African, and Native American poets. Color and b&w illustrations accompany the verses.

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D. Nurkse’sBurnt Island explores tragedy both grand and intimate, in city and country, in our own troubled moment and across the greater scope of geological time. Arranged in three“suites” of lucid, often heart-wrenching verse, the book begins with a city under siege, in a group of poems that becomes a subtle homage to New York after 9/11–a metaphorical“burnt island,” where diggers doze on their shovels, citizens contribute bottles of water, M&M’s, and casseroles to recovery efforts, and survivors, mesmerized by the photos of the missing, compare them“scar by scar with the faces of the living.” Nurkse then takes up the journey of a couple starting again in nature at a specific place called Burnt Island, where the elements instruct them, seeming to mirror their conflicts and strife. Finally, in a charming and profound series of poems centered on marine ecology, he finds the infinite in the infinitesimally small, and offers us, in sparkling, mysterious verses, the strange comfort that comes with observing the life of the ocean.we are like youbecause we are born by the billionsand float into the open ocean–.
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.we live another secondor much less, less than a blink,until the code comes to know itselfand the mind dreams another mindthat will survive itthere, in the bright curtain of spray. (from“The Granite Coast”)