Dr. John Yelenic was a successful dentist in a small Pennsylvania town. When he met Michele Kamler, he thought he'd finally found the woman of his dreams. She was beautiful, intelligent, and seemed to want all the same things out of life as he did. Michele married Yelenic in 1997. But, by 2002, the relationship fell apart...and what followed was a bitter, three-year-long battle in which Michele made demands for Yelenic's money and even accused him-falsely,...

"One of the greatest poets of postwar Poland, Krynicki was born in 1943 in a Nazi labor camp in Austria, where his parents, Polish peasants from Ukraine, served as slave laborers. Act of Birth marked the emergence of a major voice--with Adam Zagajewski and Stanislaw Baranczak--in Poland's "Generation of '68" or "New Wave" of Polish poetry. Political and poetic rebellion converged for these poets, and the regime took notice. During the 1970s and '80s,...

"One of Europe's greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize-winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humor. Her elegant, precise poems pose questions we never thought to ask. 'If you want the world in a nutshell,' a Polish critic remarks, 'try Szymborska.' But the world held in these lapidary poems is larger than the one we thought we knew. Carefully edited by her longtime, award-winning...

"Nobel laureate Szymborska's gorgeous posthumous collection . . . includes more than 250 poems . . . This is a brilliant and important collection."—Booklist (starred review)

One of Europe's greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humor. Her elegant, precise poems...