Stephen Heinz Berg

Oedipus the King (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order ...

Shaving

This isn't a book to read aloud in polite company. But what a refreshment that is, given the overpowering strain of gentility and restraint in American poetry. Useful as decorum may be as a poetic virtue in Moore and Bishop, interesting as some poems are by Frost and Stevens that conceal rather than...

New & Selected Poems

A major collection of works by the founder and co-editor of American Poetry Review, author of Grief and In It. "Sharp, thoughtful, and wonderfully wild."--Library Journal"Stephen Berg is a well-kept secret....Berg plies the reader's attention with simplicity and candor."--American Bookseller

Super Reading Secrets

Devised by the man recorded in Guinness as the world's fastest reader--80 pages per minutes--this is the only program that combines the most up-to-date learning techniques and psychological discoveries with proven speed-reading methods and ancient tools like meditation to significantly improve both ...

Larry Sultan

The work of Californian photographer Larry Sultan (1946-2009) has become known as one of the central oeuvres of post-conceptual photography. Since 1972, he and Los Angeles-based photographer Mike Mandel have collaborated on numerous projects, including the controversial photo-essay Evidence. This se...

Ikkyu: Crow With No Mouth: 15th Century Zen Master

An eccentric classic of Zen poetryWhen Zen master Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481) was appointed headmaster of the great temple at Kyoto, he lasted nine days before denouncing the rampant hypocrisy he saw among the monks there. He in turn invited them to look for him in the sake parlors of the Pleasure Quart...

Steam Rising from a Full Bowl of Rice: Zen Master Dogen: Versions

Dogen, a Zen master of early medieval Japan, wrote poems that have fascinated readers for centuries. In this volume, acclaimed poet Stephen Berg adapts and refashions more than sixty of them.

The Steel Cricket: Versions: 1958-1997

A collection of "versions" of some of the world's great, untranslated literature by an important American poet.

Clouded Sky

In Praise of What Persists

Oedipus the King: Uses And Abuses

Oedipus the King: Uses And Abuses

With Akhmatova at the Black Gates: Poems

With Akhmatova at the Black Gates

In It

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