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Volume 21 in the City Lights Spotlight Poetry Series: A searing indictment of anti-Black social and political violence by British Jamaican poet a...

From acclaimed Nigeria-born, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism.Facing You is a...

African and Caribbean peoples share a history dominated by the violent disruptions of slavery and colonialism. While much has been said about the...

Jack Mapanje was imprisoned without trial or charge by Malawi's dictator Hastings Banda for nearly four years, chronicling his prison experiences w...

An epic, lyrical journey through the pulsating heart and underground soul of inner-city London. Misty premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 201...

Winner of a 2022 Palestine Book Award “Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha’s accomplished debut contrasts scenes of political violence with na...

The Triumph of Brazilian Modernism studies the first steps of the movement in Brazil and some of its texts. Its first part explains how modernists ...

New Directions celebrates the Pablo Neruda Centennial. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased...

"The greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world."—Time "If there is a more urgent and indispensable playwright in world theater tha...

A Nobel Prize-winning playwright's classic tale of tragic decisions in a traditional African culture. Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ...

This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. It is set in the Yoruba village of Ilunjinle. The main characters ...

"Few poets of the last thirty years have approached his diversity of formal innovations; few have communicated so intensively via performances and ...

Aime Cesaire has been described by the Times Literary Supplement as likely to "figure alongside the Eliot-Pound-Yeats triumvirate that has dominate...

"In The Waving Gallery, Mervyn Taylor continues his poetic journey through the paces of the human predicament. The poems explore the painful and fo...

An introduction to one of Latin America's most important authors.Jorge Luis Borges is one of the key writers of the twentieth century in the cont...

Has Chilean author Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) written the final word on Latin America's insufferable modernity? This investigation asserts that B...

Fairoz is a book-length poetry sequence in which Moniza Alvi explores an imagined teenage girl's susceptibility to extremism. The book's fragmented...