European

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954736736Author Jeremy NaydlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint The Godstow PressPublisher The Godstow PressDimensions(mm) 175mm * 120mm * 5mm

The first "Collected Poems" of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) was published by Carcanet in 1982. Since then, more of her work has come to light, including some of the most moving and personal poems she ever wrote. Claire Harman, the original editor...

Rainer Brambach, one of the most widely appreciated Swiss poets in the 1950s and '60s, was notorious for walking to the beat of his own drum, defying convention, and standing his ground against popular styles and trends. He grew up in Basel and left...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916390952Author Michael LongleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University PressWeight(grams)...

The first definitive collected edition of American poet Edward Dorn s writings, this irrepressibly offbeat volume marries the old West with American counterculture. As it celebrates Dorn s epic poem "Gunslinger, "this collection which is both wonderfully...

Even if you don't know much about the war in Vietnam, you've probably heard of "The Hanoi Hilton," or Hoa Lo Prison, where captured U.S. soldiers were held. What they did there and whether they were treated well or badly by the Vietnamese became lasting...

Dante's Divine Comedy played a dual role in its relation to Italian Renaissance culture, actively shaping the fabric of that culture and, at the same time, being shaped by it. This productive relationship is examined in Commentary and Ideology, Deborah...

Shortlisted for the 2011 Popescu Prize for Poetry Translated from a European Language into English, run by the Poetry Society.Foreword by Ruth Padel and introduced by Victor Schiferli."With this collection Anglophone readers are introduced to a poet of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486408835Author A L AlgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 242gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553213997Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 174mm * 104mm *...

Russian-speaking Jews from the former Soviet Union are a peculiarity in the Jewish world. After decades living in a repressive, nominally atheistic state, these Jews did manage to retain a strong sense of Jewish identity--but one that was almost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114389Author Paul HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 92g

The most captivating part of perhaps the greatest epic poem ever written, Dante's Inferno still holds the power to thrill and inspire. The medieval equivalent of a thriller, Inferno follows Dante and his faithful guide, Virgil, as they traverse the...

"All Just', David Herd's second Carcanet collection, makes poems from the fractured phrases and competing idioms of contemporary movement, its translations between public and private spaces. Conversations start and are broken off. Public announcements...

Coleridge's status as a philosopher has often been questioned. `I am a poor poet in England,' he admitted, `but in America, I am a great philosopher.' J. S. Mill's assertion that `the time is yet far distant when, in the estimation of Coleridge, and of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592215317Author Tijan M. SallahFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 282g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999261385Author Elisabeth RynellFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books

Renowned translator Norman R. Shapiro here presents fresh English versions of poems by three of Western literature's most gifted and prolific poets-the French Renaissance writers Clement Marot, Joachim Du Bellay, and Pierre de Ronsard. Writing in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679722014Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Borrowed Landscapes, Peter Scupham's first book since his acclaimed Collected Poems of 2002, explores a hinterland of enchantment and nightmare, a landscape whose contours reach back to Shakespeare's England by way of two world wars and a coming of age...

This volume of verse by Jane Austen and her family contains all the known poems by Jane herself and a selection of work by her sister Cassandra, four of her brothers, her uncle James, her nieces Anna and Fanny, and her nephew James Edward.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956417596Author Paul SummersFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 223g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486431918Author Jessie L. WestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The one-eyed singer, songwriter, and knight errant Oswald von Wolkenstein (surname literally "Cloud-Stone") was among the last of the great troubadours. A contemporary of Villon, versed in Petrarch, and a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, Wolkenstein was...

The Waste Land is arguably the most important poem of the twentieth century. First published in the United States by Boni & Liveright in 1922, this landmark reissue of the first edition, now back with its original publisher, includes a new introduction...

Gabeba Baderoon's The History of Intimacy is a tender, tangled account of the heady days in South Africa following Nelson Mandela's release from prison. This award-winning poetry collection portrays the innovative forms of music, kinship, and even self...

Othea's Letter to Hector, one of Christine de Pizan's most popular works, is at the same time one of her most complex creations. Combining a somewhat Sibylline verse text based on a mythological figure with extensive citation of pagan sapiential...

John F. Deane is a vital presence in contemporary Irish poetry. The poems in this new collection combine lyric grace with a fiercely questing intelligence, pushing against the mysteries of faith in a fractured world, paying tribute to the value of human...

How does the consciousness of being a woman affect the workings of the poetic imagination? With this question Margaret Homans introduces her study of three nineteenth-century women poets and their response to a literary tradition that defines the poet as...

Chiara Matraini (1515-1604) was a member of the great flowering of poetic imitators and innovators in the Italian literary heritage begun by Petrarch, cultivated later by the lyric poet Pietro Bembo, and supplanted by the epic poet Torquato Tasso. Though...

Two words, hope and doubt, dominate Not All Honey, the seventh full collection by Roddy Lumsden. These awkward cousins appear repeatedly as the poet 'fathoms the ingredient for happy' despite a tendency for the 'terrific melancholy' which named his last...

Across one day in London, twelve elderly men and women sit in flats, walk, or wait, and speak about their histories, their hopes, their loves, their disappointments and griefs - and above all seek to express who they are and what their life has been...

Throughout Rake, Matthew Caley's fifth collection, it can appear as if we are glimpsing into the oblique diary of an immortal time-travelling rake, one who is seeking his 'one true beloved' through an heroic tally of amorous encounters, desperately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954218055Author Ardengo SofficiFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books

A comprehensive English-language edition of verse by the Austrian poetAn undeniable aura surrounds the name of Georg Trakl, a poet of intense inner vision and originality whose work stands alongside that of Yeats, Valery, and T. S. Eliot. Besides Rilke,...

Focusing on the most recent triad of Italian poetic genius--Umberto Saba, Giuseppe Ungaretti, and Eugenio Montale--Joseph Cary not only presents striking biographical portraits as he facilitates our understanding of their poetry; he also guides us...

The first original chivalric poem written by an Italian woman, Floridoro imbues a strong feminist ethos into a hypermasculine genre. Dotted with the usual characteristics-dark forests, illusory palaces, enchanted islands, seductive sorceresses-Floridoro...

Wordsworth is England's greatest poet of the French Revolution: he witnessed some of its events first hand, participated in its intellectual and social ambitions, and eventually developed his celebrated poetic campaign in response to its enthusiasms. But...

Ahren Warner's second collection of poems opens with the sequence Lutece, te amo: a raw paean to the Paris it inhabits that flits between past and present and offers both adoration and horror in equal measure. Elsewhere, London 'licks and laps'; an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524711191Author Federico Garcia LorcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc