The Mirror of Simple SoulsLeah Flax Barber In her first book of poems, Leah Flax Barber revives an actress figure of the commedia dell'arte to consider her own destiny as a soon to be historical subject. Taking its title from Marguerite Porete's fourteenth century Beguine classic, The Mirror of Simple Souls embodies the metaphysical thorniness of the book as object through sources as wide ranging as Renaissance theater, Low German and Old French mystical texts, Kate Bush

Amnion feeds into the history of Homeric

Originally published in 1982

part Marxist theory

Julia Kristeva

Ahmed Bouanani (trans

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Laura Cescarco Eglin renders the imagery and philosophical complexity of these minimal odes with brio

voor hem een metafoor voor het leven waartoe hij zich gedwongen voelde

but never achieved the widespread acclaim for which he yearned

Ennio Moltedo (trans

Traveling deeper and deeper

in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari’s splendid new translations