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  • Michael Hofmann

    An Extended Passport Application

    by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    For more than four decades, Michael Hofmann has made significant contributions to the literary cultures of Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, ranging from his original poetry to translations of Kafka, Brecht, Hans Fallada, and Joseph Roth, among others. In the first book-length study of this iconic figure, poet and translator André Naffis-Sahely surveys Hofmann’s life and work ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • High Desert

    by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    High Desert is a psychedelic journal of end-times and an ode to the American Southwest. Exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast’s wildfire epidemic, Naffis-Sahely’s reflections on class, race, and nationalism chart the region’s hidden histories from the Spanish Colonial Era to the recent pandemic. The poems in High Desert also revel in their ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • The Promised Land

    Poems from Itinerant Life

    by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    While half the world swept west,we trickled eastward, one by one,single-file, like fugitives. Next stop:Abu Dhabi, where my father had a job,and money, for the first time in years . . .__________________________________________________Flitting from the mud-soaked floors of Venice to the glittering, towering constructions of the Abu Dhabi of his childhood and early adulthood, from pre... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Heart of a Stranger

    An Anthology of Exile Literature

    Edited by Andre Naffis-Sahely ...
    A fascinatingly diverse anthology of the literature of exile, from the myths of Ancient Egypt to contemporary poetryExile lies at the root of our earliest stories. Charting varied experiences of people forced to leave their homes from the ancient world to the present day, The Heart of a Stranger is an anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction that journeys through six continents, with over a ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Other Side of Nowhere

    by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    Series Book 27 - Rough Trade Edition
    The Other Side of Nowhere is a radical, psychedelic journal of the end- times, whose poems portray a world of intransigence, a world where the safety of words like place or home have started to unravel. This pamphlet finds the author of The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin, 2017) exploring the American West, from forgotten gold rush towns in Arizona to the lives of historical ... Read more

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  • Petrolio

    by Pier Paolo Pasolini ...
    Translated by Ann Goldstein ...
    Notorious writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final novel—visionary, phenomenally strange, and unfinished at the time of his brutal murder—tells a fragmentary and characteristically provocative story of an oil executive split between the desire to dominate and the desire to be dominated.Seventeen years after Pier Paolo Pasolini’s brutal death, his sprawling, unfinished magnum opus was ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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  • The Sundays of Jean Dézert

    by Jean de La Ville de Mirmont ...
    Translated by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    Jean de La Ville de Mirmont left behind one undisputed classic, self-published a few months before he would meet his fate on the front lines of World War I: an understated, almost humorous tale of urban solitude and alienation that outlines the mediocrity of bureaucratic existence.Jean Dézert is an office worker employed by the ministry, who rounds out his regimented life with snippets of Eastern ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • The Last Days

    by Laurent Seksik ...
    Translated by Andre Naffis-Sahely ...
    On 22 February 1942 Stefan Zweig, one of the most popular authors of his generation, committed suicide with his wife Lotte. The final, desperate gesture of this great writer has fascinated ever since.Zweig was an exile, driven from his home in Austria by the Nazis. Fleeing first to London, then New York, trying always to escape both those who demonised him and those who acclaimed him, he ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Beyond the Barbed Wire

    Selected Poems

    by Abdellatif Laabi ...
    Translated by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    Finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2020Winner of an English PEN AwardIntroduced by Jim Moore, with an interview by Christopher SchaeferBeyond the Barbed Wire is a selection of work by Morocco's greatest living poet. Abdellatif Laâbi's poetry and literary activism has inspired a generation of writers and thinkers, and it resulted in his decade-long imprisonment. This ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ploughshares Spring 2021 Guest-edited by Laura van den Berg

    by Laura van den Berg, Kaveh Akbar, Aldo Amparán, Eloisa Amezcua, Marianne Boruch, nicole v basta, Gabrielle Bates, Paola Bruni, Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Michael Collier, Dana Curtis, Nancy Chen Long, Gustavo Firmat, April Eliza Goldman, Michele Herman, Sarah Mackey Kirby, Daniel Lawless, Anni Liu, Chloe Martinez, Matthew Minicucci, Alicia Mountain, André Naffis-Sahely, Carl Phillips, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Michael Shewmaker, Ralph Sneeden, R.A. Villanueva, Cynthia Williams, Wendy Xu, Maria Zoccola, Shaleigh Kwok, 'Pemi Aguda, Venita Blackburn, Fernando A. Flores, Tania James, Fajer Alexander Khansa, Amy Lin, Claire Luchette, Zora Mai Quỳnh, Helen Phillips, Fortunato Salazar, Seth Wang, Ruth Hoberman ...
    The Spring 2021 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows. ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • Mick Imlah

    Selected Prose

    Edited by Robert Selby, André Naffis-Sahely ...
    Series Book 41 - Peter Lang Ltd.
    As well as a highly respected poet and editor, Mick Imlah (1956–2009) was one of the finest literary critics of his generation. He spent most of his twenty-five-year career working for the Times Literary Supplement, reinterpreting familiar writers from Tennyson and Trollope to Larkin and Muldoon, and – as his interest in his Scottish background grew – elucidating those fallen from favour, such as ... Read more

    $57.89 CAD

  • If Venice Dies

    by Salvatore Settis ...
    Translated by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    In the tradition of Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities comes an urgent plea from internationally renowned art historian Salvatore Settis to preserve Venice’s future.What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong? Venetians are increasingly abandoning their hometown — there’s now only one resident for every 140 visitors — and Venice’s fragile fate has become ... Read more

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