North Point Press imprint: 95 books
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Rainer Maria Rilke's move to Paris in 1902 and his close association with Rodin led him to take a new direction in his poetry. Between 1906 and 1908 he produced a torrent of brilliant work that was published in two separate volumes under the title Neue Gedichte, or New Poems. As the celebrated Rilke...
Duino Elegies
A Bilingual Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic
orders? and even if one of them pressed me
suddenly to his heart: I'd be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure,
and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdains
to...
Uncollected Poems
Bilingual Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Edward Snow's selection of more than one hundred of Rainer Maria Rilke's little-known and neglected poems in this bilingual edition offers the reader a glimpse into one of the most powerful and underrated accomplishments in all of modern poetry. The poems in Uncollected Poems reveal a freer, more...
New Poems
A Revised Bilingual Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The formative work of the legendary poet who sought to write "not feelings but things I had felt"
When Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris for the first time in September 1902, commissioned by a German publisher to write a monograph on Rodin, he was twenty-seven and already the author of nine...
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Breathing, you invisible poem!
World-space in pure continuous interchange
with my own being. Equipose
in which I rhythmically transpire.
Written only four years before Rilke's death, this sequence of sonnets, varied in form yet consistently structured, stands as the poet's final masterwork....
Metro Stop Dostoevsky
Travels in Russian Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
A Russian American writer catapults herself into the maelstrom of Russian life at a time of seismic change for both
The daughter of Russian émigrés, Ingrid Bengis grew up wondering whether she was American or, deep down, "really Russian." In 1991, naïvely in love with Russia and...
Pot on the Fire
Further Confessions of a Renegade Cook
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Pot on the Fire is the latest collection from "the most enticingly serendipitous voice on the culinary front since Elizabeth David and M.F.K. Fisher" (Connoisseur). As the title suggests, it celebrates-and, in classic Thorne style, ponders, probes, and scrutinizes-a lifelong engagement with...
Clearing Land
Legacies of the American Farm
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2005
Though few of us now live close to the soil, the world we inhabit has been sculpted by our long national saga of settlement. At the heart of our identity lies the notion of the family farm, as shaped by European history and reshaped by the vast opportunities of the continent. It lies at the heart...
If Dogs Could Talk
Exploring the Canine Mind
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Every dog owner knows intuitively that there's something special about the high degree of mutual understanding and empathy that exists between humans and their proverbial best friends. Now, an internationally renowned Hungarian ethologist (a specialist in the scientific study of animal behavior) traces...
by William Grimes
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2002
Boy Meets Bird.
Boy Gets Bird.
Boy Loses Bird
An Urban Folktale.
One day in the dead of winter, New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes looked out the window into his backyard in Queens and saw a chicken, jet black with a crimson comb. Wherever it had come from, it showed no sign of...
by James Goodman, James Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
On July 13, 1977, there was a blackout in New York City. With the dark came excitement, adventure, and fright in subway tunnels, office towers, busy intersections, high-rise stairwells, hotel lobbies, elevators, and hospitals. There was revelry in bars and restaurants, music and dancing in the streets....
Yoga Mala
The Seminal Treatise and Guide from the Living Master of Ashtanga Yoga
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
The seminal treatise and guide to Ashtanga yoga by the master of this increasingly popular discipline
There is a yoga boom in America, and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois is at the heart of it. One of the great yoga figures of our time, Jois brought Ashtanga yoga to the West a quarter of a century ago...
Bhakti Yoga
Tales and Teachings from the Bhagavata Purana
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
From the author of what has become the standard edition of The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali, an exploration of probably the most significant tradition in Hinduism, along with a rendering of key texts and parables from that tradition
Bhakti Yoga explores one of the eight “limbs” of yoga. In...
Against the Grain
How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Against the Grain, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment....