je me balancerai entre mes visions de pourpre et ma furie sublime dans ma cage de soleil David Ménard a publié un roman, Nous aurons vécu nous non plus, et deux recueils de poésie aux Editions L'Interligne. Neuvaines, lauréat de deux prix littéraires d'envergure, a fait l'objet d'une adaptation théâtrale par le Théâtre du Trillium.

Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and ancient art of poetry in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is, in the translators' words, "that rarest of phenomena: a serious poet who commands a large audience in her native land." The seventy poems in this bilingual edition are among the largest and most representative offering of her work in English,...

Los Poemas de Baltasar de Alcázar no fueron publicados por el escritor. Por fortuna, el pintor Francisco Pacheco realizó copias del único manuscrito que se conservaba. Como escritor, demostró un brillante dominio de la métrica. Los temas que caracterizan la obra poética de Alcázar fueron un tanto triviales; por esta razón, a menudo se le etiqueta injustamente al autor como "poeta menor". Estuvo muy influido por los poetas latinos Marcial y...

This small book contains an engaging spread of rhymes and poems; humorous, romantic or based around historical events. The opening twenty-eight translations of early Dutch poetry are the most well-known of that language and period. The originals were written in a straightforward and unembellished style, making attractive yet metred translation not too tricky. The fourteen Norwegian pieces are from the nineteenth century. Their Lutheran adumbrations...

Tour de Nesle (The Tower of Death) is one of Alexandre Dumas's greatest and most powerful plays, a tale of power and conviction, although its historical accuracy is far from certain. Queen Marguerite and her sisters entertain themselves by luring unsuspecting men to the Tower, which located across the Seine from the Louvre. There they entice their victims to join them for wild sexual escapades-all expressly forbidden, of course, by both Church and...

Edgar Degas began as a classical painter of genre history scenes and died as one of the greatest and most innovative names in French art-although as with so many other artists, he did not receive a great deal of recognition in his lifetime. Along the way his style changed completely from strict academic formalism to near-abstract scenes of contemporary Parisian life. His primary subject was the human form, especially that of women, and he also loved...

El poema A la entrada del príncipe de Gales en Madrid por marzo del año 1623, de Antonio de Solís, es una loa a la visita del Príncipe de Gales a España en 1623. El viaje tuvo como propósito establecer una alianza mediante un matrimonio con la hija menor de Felipe III, la infanta María Ana. El enlace nunca se celebró. La corona española exigía la conversión del príncipe de Gales al catolicismo. A su regreso a Inglaterra, Carlos exigió...

Victoria Sultana, a respected religious woman on the island of Malta, begins to suffer inexplicably from the same holy wounds as Jesus Christ. On what Victoria assumes to be an ordinary Friday in May of 2010, she experiences the entirety of the Passion of the Christ and dies. Soon, her husband, family and friends are on television singing her praises, claiming that she was nothing short of a saint walking amongst us, but could there be more to her...

"Within the tradition of polished verse, Mirela Roznoveanu has accomplished an astonishing marriage of Romantic elements.The elegance of Brecht and Rilke converses with the occasional surrealism of Rimbaud, flavored by a Baudelairian melancholy which moves the reader between the streets of New York City and ancient landscapes both historical and mythological.A good portion of the text is translated from the Romanian, and these especially seem masterfully...

Monet's gift was to show the world a different way of seeing and interpreting everything around us. He brought his canvases to life with dabs and swoops of color put together to give an impression of the scene. He is the ultimate Impressionist: not only did one of his paintings inspire the label "Impressionist" and so name one of the greatest art movements of all time, but he was its leader, whose work changed the way that artists represented nature,...