BOOKS BY GEOFFREY BROCK

author: Geoffrey Brock ASIN or ISBN-10: 1566636671 binding: Hardcover list price: $18.95 USD amazon price: $18.98 USD

The fifth winner of the annual New Criterion Poetry Prize. From the glinting scales in a painting by Vermeer to the white lines that disappear beneath a headlight's beam, Mr. Brock's poems measure out the often elusive weights and distances of the known world, confronting the unruly powers that threaten his burnished surfaces. Once read, his keen perceptions--all the more striking for the expertly cadenced music of his language and his supple use of poetic form--will be long remembered.

author: Carlo Collodi ASIN or ISBN-10: 1590172892 binding: Paperback list price: $14.00 USD amazon price: $9.90 USD

Though one of the best-known books in the world, Pinocchio at the same time remains unknown—linked in many minds to the Walt Disney movie that bears little relation to Carlo Collodi’s splendid original. That story is of course about a puppet who, after many trials, succeeds in becoming a “real boy.” Yet it is hardly a sentimental or morally improving tale. To the contrary, Pinocchio is one of the great subversives of the written page, a madcap genius hurtled along at the pleasure and mercy of his desires, a renegade who in many ways resembles his near contemporary Huck Finn.

author: Umberto Eco ASIN or ISBN-10: 0156030438 binding: Paperback list price: $18.00 USD amazon price: $3.10 USD

Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and Turin. There, in the sprawling attic, he searches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photo albums, and adolescent diaries.

author: Franz Kafka ASIN or ISBN-10: 0805212078 binding: Paperback list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $11.28 USD

The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers are now gathered into a single volume with an introduction and afterword by the celebrated writer and publisher Roberto Calasso.

author: Antonia Arslan ASIN or ISBN-10: 1400044359 binding: Hardcover list price: $23.95 USD amazon price: $28.42 USD

A beautiful, wrenching debut novel chronicling the life of a family struggling for survival during the Armenian genocide in Turkey, in 1915.

author: Cesare Pavese ASIN or ISBN-10: 1556591748 binding: Paperback list price: $17.00 USD amazon price: $16.92 USD

Cesare Pavese was one of Italy's great post-war writers. His poetry was revolutionary-both artistically and politically-rejecting the verbal and philosophical constraints of tradition and utilizing direct, colloquial language. His subjects were peasants, hobos, and prostitutes, and this bilingual volume includes all the poetry Pavese ever published, including work originally deleted by Fascist censors. A landmark volume.Cesare Pavese (1908-50) was a novelist, poet, and translator and a major literary figure in post-war Italy.

author: Roberto Calasso ASIN or ISBN-10: 1400076129 binding: Paperback list price: $15.00 USD amazon price: $15.00 USD

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony comes one of the most significant books in recent years on a writer of perennial interest–a virtuoso interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka.

ASIN or ISBN-10: B001OK6JQE binding: Unknown Binding amazon price: $38.95 USD

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ASIN or ISBN-10: 0986533807 binding: Paperback list price: $16.95 USD amazon price: $25.24 USD

The Able Muse Anthology — from the new Able Muse Press — celebrates Able Muse's journey through its first decade and beyond, by showcasing the best of the published poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, art and photography, including a foreword by Timothy Steele. This anthology has received high praise and acclaim from Dana Gioia, David Mason, Charles Martin, Catharine Savage-Brosman, X.J. Kennedy, Catharine Savage Brosman and others. PRAISE FOR THE ABLE MUSE ANTHOLOGY: