This list of gift ideas for poets and writers takes readers around the world and back in time through language: Translator Robert Alter shares a personal and passionate account of the art of Bible translation while poet Michael Schmidt explores the enduring fascinating of the epic of Gilgamesh; the original version of the Grimms’ fairy tales get a fresh look in a beautiful illustrated volume and the story of efforts to produce the first distinctly American English dictionary is brought to compelling light; the Writers on Writers series showcases Colm TóibÃn on Elizabeth Bishop, Alexander McCall Smith on W.H. Auden, Michael Dirda on Arthur Conan Doyle, and Phillip Lopate on Susan Sontag while the 91ÌÒÉ« Series of Contemporary Poets features poetry from Eleanor Wilner, Kathleen Graber, Austin Smith, Dora Malech, Miller Oberman, and Myronn Hardy.
The Art of Bible Translation
Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition
The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language
On Elizabeth Bishop
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You
On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling
Notes on Sontag
The River Twice: Poems
Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems, 1975–2017
Flyover Country: Poems
Stet
The Unstill Ones: Poems
