Eliot Weinberger
Eliot Weinberger’s books of literary essays include Karmic Traces, An Elemental Thing, The Ghosts of Birds, and Angels & Saints. His political writings are collected in What I Heard About Iraq and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles. The author of a study of Chinese poetry translation, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, he is a translator of the poetry of Bei Dao and the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry. He was formerly the general editor of the series Calligrams: Writings from and on China and the literary editor of the Murty Classical Library of India. Among his many translations of Latin American poetry and prose are The Poems of Octavio Paz, Paz’s In Light of India, Vicente Huidobro’s Altazor, Xavier Villaurrutia’s Nostalgia for Death, and Jorge Luis Borges’ Seven Nights and Selected Non-Fictions. He has been publishing with New Directions since 1975.
Books by Eliot Weinberger
Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Tomlinson
Paperback, 2018
Now in paperback, the definitive, life-spanning, bilingual edition of the poems by the Nobel Prize laureate
Kenneth Rexroth, Eliot Weinberger
E Book, 2014
“Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills.”—American Poetry Review
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Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Tomlinson
E Book, 2018
Now in paperback, the definitive, life-spanning, bilingual edition of the poems by the Nobel Prize laureate
Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, Donald A. Yates, James E. Irby, John M. Fein, Eliot Weinberger
E Book
A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays.
New Directions, Lydia Davis, Eliot Weinberger, Susan Howe, Bernadette Mayer, Sylvia Legris
Paperback, 2023
