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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531391Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807611487Author Aime CesaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint George Braziller IncPublisher George Braziller IncWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm)...

Krystyna Milobedzka, one of Poland's leading and most innovative poets, was first published in 1960; her early volumes were singled out by Stanislaw Baranczak for their "dramatic ungrammaticalness", as they speak about elementary human...

One of the most vibrant voices of our time, Adam Zagajewski is a modern master of the poetic form. His clear-eyed verse acknowledges atrocities past and present, as well as the everyday traumas of contemporary life, without ever sinking into cynical...

In her audacious debut To Feed the Stone, Bronka Nowicka offers writing that is both timeless and timely. Using the language of folk narrative, like Italo Calvino, Russell Edson and Jan Svankmajer before her, Nowicka's prose poems take us through the...

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...

The romans d'antiquite, medieval re-makings in French of the stories of Troy, Thebes, Greece, and Rome, first appeared in the reign of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine in the twelfth century and continued to be read in England throughout the Middle Ages...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781856100472Author George BacoviaFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Forest BooksPublisher Forest Books

This vivid presentation of Campana demonstrates why Italian readers have cherished his poems since the first appearance of Canti Orfici in 1914. Charles Wright's translation, Jonathan Galassi's introduction, and, as afterword, Montale's thoughtful essay...

French Love Poems is about the kinds of love that puzzle, delight and af?ict us throughout our lives, from going on walks with an attractive cousin before Sunday dinner (Nerval) to indulging a granddaughter (Hugo). On the way there's the ?rst yes from...

This is a rich harvest from a renowned translator, an elegant survivor. In 1996, in his eightieth year, David Gascoyne was awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in recognition of his profound contribution to French literature and art...

C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is now considered by many to be the most original and influential Greek poet of this century. The qualities of his poetry that were unfashionable during his lifetime are the very ones that make his work endure: his sparing use of...

Magnus Sigurdsson spare poems pay rare attention to the minute revelations of nature rather than allowing the crudeness of machinery to bulldoze our sentiments. Through intricate wordplay and a titanic understanding of his native Icelandic, rendered with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528386Author Joseph BrodskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865475137Author Rainer RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point Press

Tomaz is an extended poem assembled from assembled by Joshua Beckman from his recorded conversations with one of the foundational figures of the European avant-garde, Tomaz Salamun. This book includes photographs and translated original poems throughout,...

Elena Shvarts was the most outstanding Russian poet of her generation. 'Paradise' presents a dual language selection of her earlier poetry, and was a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. Each new generation has to reinterpret St Petersburg,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826403346Author Friedrich HolderlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing...

Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmark's leading poets, the winner of the Nordic Prize - Scandinavia's most prestigious literary award - for her collection Queen's Gate, published in English by Bloodaxe in 2001. This new translation of her work combines two more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956735942Author Guillaume ApollinaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB EditionsDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596223Author Fernando ValverdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811218252Author Ezra PoundFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911414018Author Adam MickiewiczFormat HardbackPage Count 418Imprint Glagoslav Publications B.V.Publisher Glagoslav Publications B.V.Weight(grams)...

Selected Poetry and Prose of Stephane Mallarme presents what can be considered the essential work of the renowned "father of the Symbolists." Mallarme's major elegies, sonnets, and other verse, including excerpts from the dialogue "Heriodiade," are all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978184759Author Paulo da CostaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Livros Pe D'OrelhaPublisher Livros Pe D'OrelhaWeight(grams) 181g

Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938), an original Bolshevik leader and a founder of the Soviet state, spent the last year of his life imprisoned by Stalin, awaiting a trial and eventual execution. Remarkably during that time, from March 1937 to March 1938,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781392065Author Charles Pierre BaudelaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams)...

A rising star in Polish letters explores faith, eros, death and the making of poems in these deft, personal musings. Hailed in Poland as "the hope of Polish poetry" and the inheritor of its metaphysical tradition, Dabrowski offers these...

Luciano Erba's poems discover in the details of everyday life--a cream-colored tie, an old book, a swallow--access to far-reaching mysteries, including the fact of our being here at all. One of Italy's most important contemporary poets, Erba is...

Light, Grass, and Letter in April is the first book in English to appear since the great Danish poet's death in January 2009. Light (1962) and Grass (1963), her first published works, introduce her genius for the music of everyday speech, and her...

The first complete English translation of Ewa Lipska's exciting "Dear Ms. Schubert" poemsEwa Lipska is one of Europe's most compelling and important poets, but relatively little of her recent work has been translated into English. A Polish-English...

Inspired by tombstones and their inscriptions, Mak Dizdar's rich and haunting poems in "Stone Sleeper", his most famous work, are a journey into the mysterious heart of medieval Bosnia. The poems form a three-way dialogue between the modern poet, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789083133652Author Herman GorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Arimei BooksPublisher Arimei BooksWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887722189Author Emile NelliganFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Harvest HousePublisher Harvest HouseWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 111mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692218853Author Pseudo-LeopardiFormat PaperbackImprint GnomePublisher GnomeWeight(grams) 59g

Home on the Move explores notions of `home' that are challenged and reshaped by unprecedented migration. The anthology interrogates ideas of home, belonging and language from poetic perspectives. The creative responses are the results of a journey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934851050Author Julian KornhauserFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Marick PressPublisher Marick PressWeight(grams) 5gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 147mm * 5mm

Regarded as one of Europe's most important poets of the late nineteenth century, Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902) provided the modern poetic foundations for the reemergence of Catalan literature after three centuries of the language's suppression by Spain's...

Praised by Paul Auster as "one of the rare poets in the history of literature to have sustained the highest level of artistic excellence throughout an entire lifetime," Yves Bonnefoy is widely considered the foremost French poet of his generation...

Though the Netherlands has been the site of vigorous literary activity since at least the Beweging van Vijftig (Movement of the Fifties) poets, the status of Dutch as a "minor" language spoken by only twenty-two million people has kept its rich poetry...