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The Lit World: Poems from History
by Tim Miller
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Dante the Maker
by William Anderson |
Beautiful, Intolerable
God: Selected Short Poems
by Robinson Jeffers |
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S4N Books is a publisher of:
Long poems or long sequences of poems
by contemporary authors. By long, we mean anything from a few hundred to
a few thousand lines. Think The Waste Land or Song of Myself,
think The Auroras of Autumn or The Bridge. Think, even, of
Gilgamesh or the Mahabharata.
Reissues of long poems by
long-dead authors, with related work alongside. Future titles will
hopefully include Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, William Blake, The Book of
Job, and many others.
As a small press, we lack the scholarly resources and funding of, say,
the Library of America, to produce new or "definitive" texts. The usual
recourse of publishers whose goal is not a new or definitive text is to
merely bring out another reissue of something that is already readily
available, which we see no point in. So with each reissue we will
include excerpts from the author's letters, diaries, essays, or other
poems, to show how and when the poem was written and where it sits in
relation to the poet's development.
Reissues of scholarly works
of various kinds--in the works now are a biography of Dante, a study of
Eliot's Four Quartets, works by St. John of the Cross, and a
handful of biographies and studies of Whitman. Unlike the reissues of
long poems, there will be no additional material added; the goal of
these books is to bring works long out-of-print--but of unquestionable
importance--back into easy availability.
The Leaves of Grass Project,
a combination of the first two reprint series, and one that will take
many years to complete. The goal is to reprint and make readily
available the eight major editions of Leaves of Grass: namely,
the 1855, 1856, 1860, 1867, 1871, 1876, 1881, 1892 editions. Each
one will be heavily annotated with previous and later versions of poems,
excerpts from Whitman's prose and Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman
in Camden, along with contemporary and later criticism. Go the the
Leaves of Grass
Project page for more.
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