Xenos Books is a publishing company in
Riverside, California
Riverside is a city in and the county seat of Riverside County, California, United States, in the Inland Empire metropolitan area. It is named for its location beside the Santa Ana River. It is the most populous city in the Inland Empire and ...
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.
Titles published
Poetry
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Sevastopol: On Photographs of War'', by William Allen.
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Naked as Water
''Naked as Water'', by Mario Azzopardi, is a book of poems written originally in Maltese. Note that Mario Azzopardi (born 1944) should not be confused with Mario Philip Azzopardi (who has made a career in film-making in Canada). The former Azzopar ...
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Mario Azzopardi
Mario Philip Azzopardi (born 19 November 1950) is a Canadian-Maltese television and film director and writer.
Early life and emigration
Azzopardi was born in Siggiewi, Malta, and was educated at St Aloysius' College (Birkirkara, Malta), and the R ...
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Maltese
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* Someone or something of, from, or related to Malta
* Maltese alphabet
* Maltese cuisine
* Maltese culture
* Maltese language, the Semitic language spoken by Maltese people
* Maltese people, people from Malta or of Malte ...
, and with an Introduction & Afterword by
Grazio Falzon.
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The Hunts ''The 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 o ...
'', by
Amelia Biagioni
Amelia Biagioni (1916, Gálvez, Santa Fe – 2000, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine poet. She published six books of poetry between 1954 and 1995.
Work
* ''Sonata de Soledad'' (1954)
* ''La Llave'' (1957)
* ''El Humo'' (1967)
* ''Las Cacerias'' ( ...
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Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
** Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Ca ...
by
Renata Treitel
Renata is an Italian, Polish, Tatarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Germanian, Sweden, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Czech, and Lithuanian feminine given name. See Renatus.
In Francophone countries there is a cognate name Renée.
The following people ...
.
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Addictive Aversions ''Addictive 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
The book is a follow-up to ''Anonymous Constellation'', about the destructive ...
'', by
Alfredo de Palchi
Alfredo Giop de Palchi (born December 13, 1926 Verona, Italy – August 6, 2020) was an Italian poet and translator.
Life
He grew up in Legnago, Verona, Italy. He was a political prisoner from the Spring of 1945 until the Spring of 1951. From 19 ...
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Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
by
Sonia Raiziss
Sonia Raiziss Giop (October 13, 1906 – March 19, 1994) was an American poet, critic, and translator.
Life and career
Raiziss was born in Germany and immigrated to the U.S. as a child. She was raised in Philadelphia, where her father biochemi ...
, ''et al.''
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Anonymous Constellation
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** Anonymous work, a work of art or literature that has an unnamed or unknown creator or author
* Anony ...
'', by
Alfredo de Palchi
Alfredo Giop de Palchi (born December 13, 1926 Verona, Italy – August 6, 2020) was an Italian poet and translator.
Life
He grew up in Legnago, Verona, Italy. He was a political prisoner from the Spring of 1945 until the Spring of 1951. From 19 ...
, translated from
Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
by
Sonia Raiziss
Sonia Raiziss Giop (October 13, 1906 – March 19, 1994) was an American poet, critic, and translator.
Life and career
Raiziss was born in Germany and immigrated to the U.S. as a child. She was raised in Philadelphia, where her father biochemi ...
.
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The Scorpion’s Dark Dance'', by
Alfredo de Palchi
Alfredo Giop de Palchi (born December 13, 1926 Verona, Italy – August 6, 2020) was an Italian poet and translator.
Life
He grew up in Legnago, Verona, Italy. He was a political prisoner from the Spring of 1945 until the Spring of 1951. From 19 ...
, translated from
Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
by
Sonia Raiziss
Sonia Raiziss Giop (October 13, 1906 – March 19, 1994) was an American poet, critic, and translator.
Life and career
Raiziss was born in Germany and immigrated to the U.S. as a child. She was raised in Philadelphia, where her father biochemi ...
.
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Angels of Youth ''Angels of Youth'', by Luigi Fontanella, is a book of poems written originally in Italian and based on his Italian volume ''Ceres''.
Synopsis
It is divided into four sections, Ceres, Stanzas for Emma, Ars Poetica, and Ballads.
It includes "Stan ...
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Luigi Fontanella
Luigi Augusto Fontanella (born 1943 Salerno, Italy) is a poet, critic, translator, playwright, and novelist.
Life
He was a student of Giacomo Debenedetti and after he graduated from the Sapienza University of Rome, he obtained a Ph.D. in Romanc ...
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Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
by
Carol Lettieri
Carol may refer to:
People with the name
*Carol (given name)
*Henri Carol (1910–1984), French composer and organist
* Martine Carol (1920–1967), French film actress
*Sue Carol (1906–1982), American actress and talent agent, wife of actor Al ...
&
Irena Marchegiani Jones.
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The Wolf at the Door: A Poetic Cycle'', by
Bogomil Gjuzel
Bogomil Gjuzel ( mk, Богомил Ѓузел; bg, Богомил Гюзел ; sr, Богомил Ђузел; 9 February 1939 – 22 April 2021) was a Macedonian poet, writer, playwright and translator.
Biography
Born in 1939 in Čačak, King ...
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Macedonian
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Macedonian(s) may specifically refer to:
People Modern
* Macedonians (ethnic group), a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North Mac ...
by
P. H. Liotta; Introduction by
Charles Simic
Dušan Simić ( sr-cyr, Душан Симић, ; born May 9, 1938), known as Charles Simic, is a Serbian American poet and former co-poetry editor of the '' Paris Review''. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for ''The World Does ...
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The Poet is a Little God
''The 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 w ...
'', by
Vicente Huidobro
Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández (; January 10, 1893 – January 2, 1948) was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He promoted the avant-garde literary movement in Chile and was the creator and greatest exponent of the literary m ...
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Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
** Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Ca ...
by
Jorge García-Gómez
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The Latin form ''Georgius'' ...
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The Fantastic Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow: Poems, Plays & Stories'', by
Lutz Rathenow
Lutz Rathenow (born 22 September 1952 in Jena) is a dissident German writer and poet who was haunted by the Secret Police until the German reunification. From then on, his fortunes changed, and he received several literary honors and awards.
L ...
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German
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**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ger ...
by
Boria Sax
Boria Sax (born 1949) is an American 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 lyri ...
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Imogen von Tannenberg
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Plays
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The Mad Kokoschka: A Play in Three Acts'', by
Gary Kern
Gary may refer to:
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Emergency Exit
An emergency exit in a structure is a special exit for emergencies such as a fire: the combined use of regular and special exits allows for faster evacuation, while it also provides an alternative if the route to the regular exit is blocked.
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Manlio Santanelli Manlio is a given name. Notable people with the given name include:
*Manlio Argueta (born 1935), Salvadoran writer, critic and novelist
*Manlio Bacigalupo (1908–1977), Italian football player and manager
*Manlio De Angelis (1935–2017), Italian ...
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Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
by
Anthony Molino
Anthony Molino (born 1957) is a translator, anthropologist, and psychoanalyst.
Life
He has received a Fulbright scholarship to the University of Florence.
His work appeared in ''Two Lines''.
He lives in Philadelphia.http://www.holmesandmeier.co ...
, with
Jane House
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Film and television
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Fiction
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Animal World'', by
Antonio di Benedetto
Antonio di Benedetto (2 November 1922 – 10 October 1986) was an Argentine novelist, short story writer and journalist.
Career
Di Benedetto began writing and publishing stories in his adolescence, inspired by the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and ...
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Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
** Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Ca ...
by
H. E. Francis.
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The Supervisor of the Sea
Emil Draitser (born 1937) is an author and professor of Russian at Hunter College in 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 Revi ...
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Emil Draitser
Emil Draitser (born 1937) is an author and professor of Russian at Hunter College in 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 Revi ...
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The Last Summer'', by
Hugh Fox
Hugh Bernard Fox Jr. (February 12, 1932 – September 4, 2011) was a writer, novelist, poet and anthropologist and one of the founders (with Ralph Ellison, Anaïs Nin, Paul Bowles, Joyce Carol Oates, Buckminster Fuller and others) of the Pu ...
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Scarecrow & Other Anomalies
''Scarecrow & 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'' (1994), directed by Eliseo Subiela.Oliverio Girondo
Oliverio Girondo (August 17, 1891 – January 24, 1967) 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. He is perhaps ...
, translated from
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
** Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Ca ...
by
Gilbert Alter-Gilbert.
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Ave Eva: A Norwegian Tragedy'', by
Edvard Hoem
Edvard Hoem (born 10 March 1949) is a Norwegian novelist, dramatist, lyricist, psalmist and government scholar. He made his literary debut in 1969, with the poetry collection ''Som grønne musikantar''. He was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize ...
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Nynorsk
Nynorsk () () is one of the two written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language ( no, Landsmål) parallel to the Dano- ...
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New Norwegian
Nynorsk () () is one of the two written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language ( no, Landsmål) parallel to the Dano ...
) by
Frankie Belle Shackelford.
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When You Became She
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Music
* When (b ...
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Imre Oravecz, translated from
Hungarian Hungarian may refer to:
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* Hungarian algorithm, a polynomial time algorithm for solving the assignme ...
by
Bruce Berlind
The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has be ...
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Jellyfish
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'', by
Giancarlo Pastore
Giancarlo is an Italian given name meaning "John Charles". It is one of the most common masculine given names in Italy and is often short for "Giovanni Carlo". Notable people with the name include:
List
A
*Giancarlo Agazzi (1933–1995), Italian ...
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Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
and with an Afterword by Jamie Richards.
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Kisses, Dreams & Other Infidels'', by
Antonio Porta
Antonio Alejandro Porta Pernigotti (born 28 October 1983) is a former Argentine-Italian professional basketball player, who lasted played with the Svendborg Rabbits in the Danish Basketball League. He played at both the point guard and shooti ...
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Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
and with an Afterword by
Anthony Molino
Anthony Molino (born 1957) is a translator, anthropologist, and psychoanalyst.
Life
He has received a Fulbright scholarship to the University of Florence.
His work appeared in ''Two Lines''.
He lives in Philadelphia.http://www.holmesandmeier.co ...
.
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Moon, Moon, Tell Me More'', by
Ellen Tifft
Ellen is a female given name, a diminutive of Elizabeth, Eleanor, Elena and Helen. Ellen was the 609th most popular name in the U.S. and the 17th in Sweden in 2004.
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*Elle ...
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Blue Ride'', by
Ken Wilkerson
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* Ken (magazine), ''Ken'' (magazine), a large-format political magazine ...
Nonfiction
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Fireplaces of Civilization: Literary Portraits of Florence, Paris, Sicily, Seville and Granada'', by
Jean-Pierre Barricelli
Jean-Pierre or Jean Pierre may refer to:
People
* Karine Jean-Pierre b.1977, White House Deputy Press Secretary for President Joe Biden 2021-
* Jean-Pierre, Count of Montalivet (1766–1823), French statesman and Peer of France
* Eugenia Pierre ( ...
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Cemeteries & Spaces of Death'', ed. by
Darnetta Bell &
Kevin Bongiorni
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Letters from Dwight
Letter, letters, or literature may refer to:
Characters typeface
* Letter (alphabet), a character representing one or more of the sounds used in speech; any of the symbols of an alphabet.
* Letterform, the graphic form of a letter of the alpha ...
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Gary Kern
Gary may refer to:
*Gary (given name), a common masculine given name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
*Gary, Indiana, the largest city named Gary
Places
;Iran
*Gary, Iran, Sistan and Baluchestan Province
;Unit ...
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Genre at the Crossroads: The Challenge of Fantasy'', ed. by
George E. Slusser
George Edgar Slusser (July 14, 1939 – November 4, 2014) was an American scholar, professor and writer. Slusser was a well-known science fiction critic. A professor emeritus of comparative literature at University of California, Riverside, he wa ...
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Jean-Pierre Barricelli
Jean-Pierre or Jean Pierre may refer to:
People
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* Eugenia Pierre ( ...
References
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External links
Xenos Books home page
Book publishing companies based in California
Companies based in Riverside, California
Mass media in Riverside, California
Publishing companies established in 1985
1985 establishments in California