Illustrated by Fulvio Testa ____________ JACKET COPY Though one of the best-known books in the world, Pinocchio at the same time remains unknown—linked in many minds to the Walt Disney movie that […] Read more ...
Edited & introduced by Geoffrey Brock, with poems by 75 Italian poets & translations by more than 100 translators, from Samuel Beckett to Seamus Heaney ____________ JACKET COPY More than […] Read more ...
Introduction by Umberto Eco Afterword by Rebecca West ____________ JACKET COPY Though one of the best-known books in the world, Pinocchio at the same time remains unknown—linked in many minds to the […] Read more ...
JACKET COPY The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets gathers the work of thirty–five of the most compelling and talented new poets writing today. Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along […] Read more ...
I’ve had thirty-six lovers plus tax. —Alda Merini (trans. by Douglas Basford) ABOUT Edited by Geoffrey Brock, the “Italian Portfolio” in this special issue of Poetry magazine contains nineteen poems […] Read more ...
Finalist, L.A. Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Longlist, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award ____________ JACKET COPY A beautiful, wrenching debut chronicling the life of a family struggling for […] Read more ...
Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann; edited & with an introduction & afterword (translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock) by Roberto Calasso ____________ JACKET COPY Franz Kafka spent […] Read more ...
Winner, New Criterion Poetry Prize ____________ JACKET COPY The fifth winner of the annual New Criterion Poetry Prize is Geoffrey Brock’s Weighing Light. From the glinting scales in a painting by […] Read more ...
Winner, Lewis Galantière Translation Award Finalist, PEN Center USA Translation Award Finalist, National Translation Award ____________ JACKET COPY International bestselling and award-winning author Umberto Eco’s illustrated novel The Mysterious Flame […] Read more ...
My translation of Eco’s story from the Feb. 27, 2005 issue of the New Yorker ____________ DESCRIPTION “The Gorge” is a gripping narrative of a clash in Fascist-era Italy between […] Read more ...