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 | Are You Here in this Hell too? Memories of Troubled Times 1944-1945 by Elisabeth Sommer-Lefkovits 'This is in many ways a unique memoir. It is the only first-hand account I know of a mother's efforts to preserve the life of her child in the full horror of the camps..." £7.99 |  | Flowers Of Perhaps: Selected Poems of Ra'hel by Ra'hel Ra'hel was born in Russia in 1890. She arrived in Palestine in 1909, where she soon became a devoted kibbutznik. Later, she developed TB, and she died in 1931. £7.99 |
The backlist comprises almost 150 books, of which around one third are currently in print.
Menard's best known authors include: Octavio Paz, Gillian Rose, de Nerval, Rilke, Pessoa, Jakov Lind, Sylvia Plath (her French translations), John Burnside (his first book, which was published under a previous name, John Paul Dick), F.T.Prince, Jeremy Reed, Amichai, Baudelaire, Primo Levi, Jabès, Bonnefoy, Mallarmé, Mandelstam, Balzac, T.S.Eliot, Gabriel Josipovici, Paul Auster, Ivo Andric, Max Jacob, Oliver Postgate, Sir Martin Ryle and Lord Zuckerman.
But most of the books under Menard’s imprint are by less well known and, indeed, virtually unknown authors: their books receive as much attention from the press as do those by the aforementioned names, who include four Nobel Prize winners. In addition to books and pamphlets, Menard has published about 150 MenCards, which are postcards containing a poem, often translated and often to mark a celebration.
We mourn the passing of yet another friend and Menard Press author, the great Austrian-born writer, Jakov Lind, whose book of stories The Stove, written in English, we published in 1995. He died on February 16, 2007 aged 80. Anthony Rudolf’s funeral eulogy can be read on www.readysteadybook.com. Lind is best known for three great books written in German: Soul of Wood, Landscape in Concrete and Ergo. The Stove is currently his only book still in print in English -
Jakov Lind, The Stove [76pp / £6.99 / ISBN: 1 874320 08 X]
Menard has just published the second and revised edition of Anthony Rudolf’s book on Piotr Rawicz, Engraved in Flesh. Rudolf’s edition and revised translation of Rawicz’s masterpiece Blood from the Sky was published by Elliott and Thompson in 2004 (see their website www.elliottthompson.com).
In May 2007, Menard published If from the Distance: Two Essays by Christopher Middleton, with an eightieth birthday homage and critique of Middleton’s work by Alan Wall.
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