THE NEAR AND DISTANT WORLD image from December 1951 National

image from December 1951 National Geographic

What cannot be defined is pulled into the body

The Introduction by noted Italian Renaissance scholar Albert Russell Ascoli provides a perfect opening to Peter Constantine’s illuminating new translation of this seminal work

Her husband passed away long ago

The book includes such favorites as Wordsworth's “I Wander’d Lonely as a Cloud” and Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan

THE NEAR AND DISTANT WORLD image from December 1951 NationalFrom the press: A vivid, enthralling new collection of poems from the Vermont Poet Laureate and award winning author of What is Otherwise Infinite, The Mbius Strip Club of Grief, and Someone Elses Wedding Vows In her latest, brilliant collection, Bianca Stone continues to explore and interrogate the full spectrum of life, from an unexpectedly intimate conversation with an internet technician in Brooklyn, to a deep dive into Greek mythology,