Xenos Books
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Xenos Books is a publishing company in Riverside, California
that was founded in 1985 by Karl Kvitko and Verona Weiss. The company is known for publishing bilingual books, and modern American and foreign writers in translation.
Riverside, California
Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and the county seat of the eponymous county. Named for its location beside the Santa Ana River, it is the largest city in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area of Southern California, 4th largest inland California...
that was founded in 1985 by Karl Kvitko and Verona Weiss. The company is known for publishing bilingual books, and modern American and foreign writers in translation.
Poetry
- Sevastopol: On Photographs of WarSevastopol: On Photographs of WarSevastopol: On Photographs of War, by William Allen, is a book of poems written in English.- Synopsis :Poetic responses to photographs taken in times of war...
, by William AllenWilliam Allen- Politicians :* William Allen , Canadian politician from Toronto* William Allen , American congressman from Ohio* William Allen , American politician from Ohio...
. - Naked as WaterNaked as WaterNaked as Water, by Mario Azzopardi, is a book of poems written originally in Maltese. Note that Mario Azzopardi should not be confused with Mario Philip Azzopardi...
, by Mario AzzopardiMario AzzopardiMario Philip Azzopardi , is a television and film director and writer.He has worked on such shows as The Outer Limits, Stargate SG-1 , and Stargate Atlantis...
, translated from MalteseMaltese languageMaltese is the national language of Malta, and a co-official language of the country alongside English,while also serving as an official language of the European Union, the only Semitic language so distinguished. Maltese is descended from Siculo-Arabic...
, and with an Introduction & Afterword by Grazio Falzon. - The HuntsThe HuntsThe Hunts, by Amelia Biagioni, is a book of poems written originally in Spanish.-Description:A bilingual edition of an astonishing poetic cycle that ranges across time and space to recreate the eternal hunt: the unstoppable, restless process of the universe chasing, tormenting and consuming...
, by Amelia BiagioniAmelia BiagioniAmelia Biagioni , was born in Gálvez, Argentina. She taught Spanish and Spanish literature in her native town and, after 1955, in Buenos Aires. She began publishing poetry under a pseudonym in 1944, and resolved to use her own name only after 1950. Her pieces appeared in newspapers and reviews such...
, translated from SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
by Renata Treitel. - Addictive AversionsAddictive AversionsAddictive Aversions, by Alfredo de Palchi, is a book of erotic and anti-erotic poems written originally in Italian under the title Le Viziose Avversioni.-Summary:...
, by Alfredo de PalchiAlfredo de PalchiAlfredo Giop de Palchi is an Italian poet, and translator.-Life:He grew up in Legnago, Verona, Italy.He has been a political prisoner from the Spring of 1945 until the Spring of 1951....
, translated from ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
by Sonia RaizissSonia RaizissSonia Raiziss Giop was an American poet, critic, and translator.-Life:A native of Germany, Ms. Raiziss grew up in Philadelphia. Her father, Dr. George W. Raiziss, was a professor, at University of Pennsylvania. Her first work was published while she was in high school...
, et al. - Anonymous Constellation, by Alfredo de PalchiAlfredo de PalchiAlfredo Giop de Palchi is an Italian poet, and translator.-Life:He grew up in Legnago, Verona, Italy.He has been a political prisoner from the Spring of 1945 until the Spring of 1951....
, translated from ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
by Sonia RaizissSonia RaizissSonia Raiziss Giop was an American poet, critic, and translator.-Life:A native of Germany, Ms. Raiziss grew up in Philadelphia. Her father, Dr. George W. Raiziss, was a professor, at University of Pennsylvania. Her first work was published while she was in high school...
. - The Scorpion’s Dark Dance, by Alfredo de PalchiAlfredo de PalchiAlfredo Giop de Palchi is an Italian poet, and translator.-Life:He grew up in Legnago, Verona, Italy.He has been a political prisoner from the Spring of 1945 until the Spring of 1951....
, translated from ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
by Sonia RaizissSonia RaizissSonia Raiziss Giop was an American poet, critic, and translator.-Life:A native of Germany, Ms. Raiziss grew up in Philadelphia. Her father, Dr. George W. Raiziss, was a professor, at University of Pennsylvania. Her first work was published while she was in high school...
. - Angels of YouthAngels of YouthAngels of Youth, by Luigi Fontanella, is a book of poems written originally in Italian.- Synopsis :A cycle of poems reaching for the ineffable wisps of thoughts, memories and impressions that make up one's private world...
, by Luigi FontanellaLuigi FontanellaLuigi Fontanella is a poet, critic, translator, playwright, and novelist.-Life:He graduated from the Sapienza University of Rome , and Harvard University He has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, and Wellesley College...
, translated from ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
by Carol Lettieri & Irena Marchegiani Jones. - The Wolf at the Door: A Poetic CycleThe Wolf at the Door: A Poetic CycleThe Wolf at the Door, by Bogomil Gjuzel, is a book of poems written originally in Macedonian language.- Synopsis :A search for roots, humanity and survival in the gloom of recent Balkan history, with illuminating notes and observations by the translator. Introduction by Charles Simic...
, by Bogomil GjuzelBogomil Gjuzel-Biography:Born in 1939 in Čačak, Serbia, Gjuzel was the son of the Bulgarian revolutionary and philosopher Dimitar Gyuzelov. He graduated from the Department of English at the University of Skopje , in 1963, and spent an academic year at the University of Edinburgh as a British Council scholar,...
, translated from MacedonianMacedonian languageMacedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...
by P. H. Liotta; Introduction by Charles SimicCharles SimicDušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.-Early years:...
. - The Poet is a Little GodThe Poet is a Little GodThe Poet is a Little God, by Vicente Huidobro, is a book of poems written originally in Spanish.- Synopsis :A bilingual edition of El espejo de agua, Poemas arcticos and Ecuatorial by the Chilean poet who strove to compete with nature itself in creative imagery.- Summary :A bilingual edition of...
, by Vicente HuidobroVicente HuidobroVicente García-Huidobro Fernández was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He was an exponent of the artistic movement called Creacionismo , which held that a poet should bring life to the things he or she writes about, rather than just describe them.Huidobro was born into a wealthy...
, translated from SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
by Jorge García-Gómez. - The Fantastic Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow: Poems, Plays & StoriesThe Fantastic Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow: Poems, Plays & StoriesThe Fantastic Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow: Poems, Plays & Stories, by Lutz Rathenow, is a book of poems, plays and stories written originally in German.- Synopsis :...
, by Lutz RathenowLutz RathenowLutz Rathenow is a dissident German writer and poet who was haunted by the Secret Police until the German reunification...
, translated from GermanGerman languageGerman is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
by Boria SaxBoria SaxBoria Sax is an award winning author and lecturer and a teacher at Mercy College.Boria Sax is probably best known for his writing on human-animal relations, where he has developed a style that combines scholarship with narrative and lyricism. He views the representation of animals in human culture...
& Imogen von Tannenberg.
Plays
- The Mad Kokoschka: A Play in Three Acts, by Gary Kern
- Emergency ExitEmergency ExitEmergency Exit, by Manlio Santanelli, is a play written originally in Italian.- Summary :The action of Emergency Exit, a two-act play by Manlio Santanelli, takes place in a place where there should be no action...
, by Manlio Santanelli, translated from ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
by Anthony MolinoAnthony Molino-Life:He has received a Fulbright scholarship to the University of Florence.His work appeared in Two Lines.He lives in Philadelphia.-Awards:* 1996 Academy of American Poets Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Fellowship* Fulbright Foundation...
, with Jane House.
Fiction
- Animal WorldAnimal WorldAnimal World is a collection of short stories written by Antonio di Benedetto, with hallucinatory animal transformations by the internationally acknowledged Argentine master.- Summary :...
, by Antonio di BenedettoAntonio di BenedettoAntonio di Benedetto , was an Argentine journalist and writer.-Publishing Career:...
, translated from SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
by H. E. FrancisH. E. FrancisH E Francis was a scholar, professor and writer.- Biography :H. E. Francis was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He has travelled three times as a Fulbright professor to Argentina. An author in his own right, he has published five collections of stories,...
. - The Supervisor of the SeaThe Supervisor of the Sea-Plot introduction :The longer and more serious stories of an acclaimed author that move from Russia to America to the fantastic beyond. Includes the celebrated "Wedding in Brighton Beach" and "Faithful Masha."- Reviews :- Editions :...
, by Emil DraitserEmil DraitserEmil Draitser is author and professor of Russian at Hunter College, New York City. Besides twelve books of artistic and scholarly prose, his essays and short stories have been published in the Los Angeles Times, Partisan Review, North American Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Prism International,... - The Last Summer, by Hugh FoxHugh FoxHugh Bernard Fox Jr. was a writer, novelist, poet and anthropologist and one of the founders of the Pushcart Prize for literature...
- Scarecrow & Other AnomaliesScarecrow & Other AnomaliesScarecrow & Other Anomalies, by Oliverio Girondo, is a collection of short prose poems written originally in Spanish. Scarecrow inspired the feature film The Dark Side of the Heart , directed by Eliseo Subiela.-Synopsis:...
, by Oliverio GirondoOliverio GirondoOliverio Girondo was an Argentine poet. He was born in Buenos Aires to a relatively wealthy family, enabling him from a young age to travel to Europe, where he studied in both Paris and England...
, translated from SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert. - Ave Eva: A Norwegian Tragedy, by Edvard HoemEdvard HoemEdvard Hoem is a Norwegian novelist, dramatist, lyricist and psalmist. He made his literary debut in 1969, with the poetry collection Som grønne musikantar. He was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature in 1974 for the novel Kjærleikens ferjereiser...
, translated from the NynorskNynorskNynorsk or New Norwegian is one of two official written standards for the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. The standard language was created by Ivar Aasen during the mid-19th century, to provide a Norwegian alternative to the Danish language which was commonly written in Norway at the...
(New Norwegian) by Frankie Belle Shackelford. - When You Became She, by Imre Oravecz, translated from HungarianHungarian languageHungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
by Bruce Berlind. - JellyfishJellyfishJellyfish are free-swimming members of the phylum Cnidaria. Medusa is another word for jellyfish, and refers to any free-swimming jellyfish stages in the phylum Cnidaria...
, by Giancarlo Pastore, translated from ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
and with an Afterword by Jamie Richards. - Kisses, Dreams & Other Infidels, by Antonio PortaAntonio PortaAntonio Alejandro Porta Pernigotti is an Argentinian professional basketball player. He plays the point guard and shooting guard positions. He is 6 ft 2 ¾ in tall and he weighs 200 lbs...
, translated from ItalianItalian languageItalian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
and with an Afterword by Anthony MolinoAnthony Molino-Life:He has received a Fulbright scholarship to the University of Florence.His work appeared in Two Lines.He lives in Philadelphia.-Awards:* 1996 Academy of American Poets Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Fellowship* Fulbright Foundation...
. - Moon, Moon, Tell Me More, by Ellen Tifft
- Blue Ride, by Ken Wilkerson
Nonfiction
- Fireplaces of Civilization: Literary Portraits of Florence, Paris, Sicily, Seville and Granada, by Jean-Pierre Barricelli
- Cemeteries & Spaces of Death, ed. by Darnetta Bell & Kevin Bongiorni
- Letters from Dwight, by Gary Kern
- Genre at the Crossroads: The Challenge of Fantasy, ed. by George E. Slusser & Jean-Pierre Barricelli