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  • Basho's narrow road

    Matsuo Basho, Hiroaki Sato

    A stimulating exploration of the haiku masterpiece. Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet's five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west...

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  • First Mountain
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    First mountain

    Zhang Er, Joseph Donahue

    The poet’s journey to bury her grandparents’ ashes in China becomes a dramatic narrative about ancestral landscapes, family, and ritual, with a tragic climax.

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  • I'll Tell What I Saw
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    I'll tell what i saw

    Robert Pinsky, Michael Mazur

    Selected translations from Dante's Divine Comedy, accompanied by thirteen spectacular prints by Michael Mazur.

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  • Romer
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    Romer

    Robert Eastwood

    The distance of Romer’s climb through life is not spatial, but psychological, the acquisition of insight, the search for the better.

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  • SIX
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    Six

    Julie Marie Wade, Julie Marie Wade

    Why SIX? Because the collection is composed of six poems. And because the perspective in this collection shifts like a kaleidoscope, each image viewable from six possible angles. And because these poems, like the prevalent hexagons of the natural world—honeycombs, for instance—derive strength fro...

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  • The Battle between the Frogs and the Mice
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    The battle between the frogs and the mice

    A. E. Stallings, Grant Silverstein

    Striking illustrations and clever rhyme bring to life an ancient Greek fable about the foolishness of war

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  • The Iliad
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    The iliad

    Homer, Joe Sachs

    This vibrant new translation is faithful to the original yet easy to read, a wonderful introduction to Homer.

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  • The Popol Vuh
    The Popol Vuh

    The popol vuh

    Michael Bazzett

    "Milkweed's Seedbank series is one of the most exciting and visionary projects in contemporary publishing. Taking the long view, these volumes run parallel to the much-hyped books of the moment to demonstrate the possibility and hope inherent in all great literature." —STEPHEN SPARKS, POINT REYES...

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  • Venison
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    Venison

    Thorpe Moeckel

    At stake are no less than the origins and mysteries of flesh and touch---food.

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