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Antonio Botto was one of Portugal's first openly gay writers, a poete maudit whose unapologetic and candid verses about homosexual life and passion were both praised and reviled when they appeared in Portuguese in 1922 under the title Cancoes. Botto's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591747Author Cesare PaveseFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmark's leading poets. She has published over 20 books in Danish since her first collection appeared in 1981, and her work has been translated into many languages. She received the 1999 Nordic Council Literature Prize -...

Joan Margarit (1938-2021) was one of Spain's major modern writers. He worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish, but for the past four decades became known for his mastery of the Catalan language. The melancholy and candour of his...

The macabre but beautiful work, Les Chants de Maldoror, has achieved a considerable reputation as one of the earliest and most extraordinary examples of Surrealist writing. It is a long narrative prose poem which celebrates the principle of Evil in an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904556763Author Federico Garcia LorcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 185g

The description for this book, Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo, will be forthcoming.Reviews"Gilbert's remains the best aggregate translation of Michelangelo's poetry into English."--Saturday ReviewBook InformationISBN...

This is the first English translation of Ranciere's study of the 19th century French poet and critic Stephane Mallarme. In this concise and illuminating study, Jacques Ranciere, one of the world's most popular and influential living philosophers,...

Set in the Stalinist era, when Lithuaniais farmers lost everything n their villages, their land, and even their way of life n to the process of collectivisation, this book documents the life of the village idiot/anarchistic trickster Kukutis. Incapable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371603Author Alissa VallesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Published to mark the first centenary of Italy's entry into the Great War, Like Leaves in Autumn features 21 original Italian poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti, with new English translations by Heather Scott. These are set alongside 21 new poems by...

Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundamental...

Opera Buffa is Tomaz Salamun's last testament. It is a book rooted in torn landscapes of Central Europe and the Mediterranean. Crafted from place and power, these poems are fragments of collective memory. "There are hands, inside. Concordance rises /...

"Gripping. . . . Lombardo's achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task. . . . [He] manages to be respectful of Homer's dire spirit while providing on nearly every page some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781447838104Author Holby Ashbury - MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Lulu Press IncPublisher Lulu Press IncWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977857654Author Richard SieburthFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 297g

This volume contains translations of two late collections by Odysseas Elytis (Nobel Prize for literature, 1979). According to the official announcement of the Swedish Academy, the Nobel Prize was awarded to Elytis "for his poetry, which, against the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370545Author Ottilie MulzetFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784351533Author Mark J RipkowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Jiahu BooksPublisher Jiahu BooksWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

Written in 1727, The Art of Sinking in Poetry was one of Alexander Pope's contributions to the literary output of the legendary Scriblerus club - a circle of writers dedicated to mocking what they perceived as a culture of mediocrity and false learning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984943982Author Miklos RadnotiFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint New American PressPublisher New American PressWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

In a masterly translation by Norman Shapiro, this selection of poems from Les Fleurs du mal demonstrates the magnificent range of Baudelaire's gift, from the exquisite quatrains to the formal challenges of his famous sonnets. The poems are presented in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711893Author Vera PavlovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 152gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 128mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811227964Author Eugene GuillevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

Ales Steger was born in 1973 in Ptuj, Slovenia - where he grew up - then part of the former Yugoslavia ruled by Tito, which gained its independence when he was 18. He published his first collection in 1995 at the age of 22, and was immediately recognised...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905233465Author Anja KonigFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Flipped Eye Publishing LimitedPublisher Flipped Eye Publishing LimitedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905082667Author Victor HugoFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Hearing EyePublisher Hearing Eye

Cast as a dialogue among six interlocuters, this lyric blend of poetry and prose considers light from a variety of perspectives - philosophical, physical, ethical, and metaphorical.About the AuthorJACQUES ROUBAUD is one of France's leading contemporary...

This anthology features the work of six of Estonia's most celebrated poets. They write from their oral tradition and folklore, explore new forms of poetry through music, marginalia and note-making.Book InformationISBN 9781906570972Author Doris...

This is the most comprehensive English translation of the work of Gunter Eich, one of the greatest postwar German poets. The author of the POW poem "Inventory," among one of the most famous lyrics in the German language, Eich was rivaled only by Paul...

This a complete translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's ""The Book of Hours"" that restores to the English-speaking reader a critical work in the development of a significant figure in 20th-century German poetry. Conveying an almost mystical conception of...

Initially published in 1990, when the New York Times Book Review named it one of fourteen "Best Books of the Year," Judith Hemschemeyer's translation of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is the definitive edition, and has sold over 13,000 copies,...

A new verse translation of the great German epic poem that inspired Wagner's Ring Cycle and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings No poem in German literature is so well known and studied in Germany and Europe as the 800-year-old Das Nibelungenlied...

Although the Austrian poet Georg Trakl was born over a century ago, the mesmerising imagery and haunting visions of his highly sensitive and morbidly introspective poetry are as powerful today as they were when he poured forth his extraordinary and...

In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the poems published in Princeton's earlier bilingual...

Composed of 150 poems, with a title taken from Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, and partly a response to the poetry of Raymond Queneau, this collection explores Jacques Roubaud's many poetic modes. He skips from the strict form of the sonnet to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911414001Author Adam MickiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Glagoslav Publications B.V.Publisher Glagoslav Publications B.V.Weight(grams)...

After first making her mark as a compelling performer, Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck was acclaimed as one of Europe's most innovative and original new voices in poetry following the publication of her first collection Chameleon in 2015. Her first...

A stunning, intimate collection by the late, great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski. . . . I think I sought wisdom (without resignation) in poems and also a certain calm madness. I found, much later, a moment's joy and melancholy's dark contentment...

These translations of the major poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798--1837) render into modern English verse the work of a writer who is widely regarded as the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary tradition. In spite of this reputation, and in spite of...