"Few novels in our time have received the extraordinary praise accorded Djuna Barnes' Nightwood. Originally published in 1936, it is recognized as one of the works that has changed the climate of the written word. It is the story of Robin Vote and those she destroys-her husband the 'Baron, ' their child Guido, and the two women, Nora and Jenny, who love her; the whole illumined by the fantastic monologues of the renegade doctor, Matthew O'Connor,...

One of the most extraordinary events of the late 19th century in Paris was the opening on December 11, 1896, at the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre of Alfred Jarry's play 'Ubu Roi'. The audience was scandalized by this revolutionary satire. Barbara Wright's witty translation of this riotous work is accompanied with drawings by Franciszka Themerson.

A collection of poems written between 1950 and 1962 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, including the complete texts of two earlier volumes, as well as a selection of previously uncollected works.

"William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician," wrote biographer Linda Wagner-Martin. During his long lifetime, Williams excelled both as a poet and a physician. Although his primary occupation was as a doctor, Williams had a full literary career. His work consists...

A 1963 collection of seven short plays by author and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Themes include love, war, peace, communication, misfortune, justice, and aging.