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Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmark's leading poets. She has received the Nordic Literature Prize - Scandinavia's most prestigious literary award - and the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize. This new translation of her work combines two recent collections, The...

Breathing, you invisible poem! World-space in pure continuous interchange with my own being. Equipose in which I rhythmically transpire. Written only four years before Rilke's death, this sequence of sonnets, varied in form yet consistently structured,...

The poems in Ales Steger's The Book of Bodies roam across personal experience, human history, and the natural world to unlock intellectual and emotional connections. Ales Steger's The Book of Bodies directly follows-and builds on and veers from-The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911414209Author Pavlo TychynaFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Glagoslav Publications B.V.Publisher Glagoslav Publications B.V.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880014540Author Czeslaw MiloszFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO Press

The celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos follows such distinguished predecessors as C. P. Cavafy and George Seferis in a dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life. The shorter poems gathered in this volume present what Ritsos calls...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911414902Author Adam MickiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Glagoslav Publications B.V.Publisher Glagoslav Publications B.V.Weight(grams)...

A ground breaking anthology of contemporary Hungarian poetry containing the diverse work of eight women and eight male poets with a wide range of subject matter and styles full of musicality, rhythm, and colorful images.Ads in Rain Taxi and other...

One of the central figures from a remarkable generation of French-language poets, Pierre Chappuis has thus far only been represented in English translation in fragments: a few poems here and there in magazines, online reviews, and anthologies. Like Bits...

"Ice Memory" is the first book of poems by the German poet Joachim Sartorius to be published in English. A traveller between continents, cultures and eras, Sartorius is a poet of global reach, whose poems, full of sound and light, documenting the wealth...

Czech writer Vitezslav Nezval (1900-58) was one of the leading Surrealist poets of the 20th century. "Prague with Fingers of Rain" is his classic 1936 collection in which Prague's many-sided life - its glamorous history, various weathers, different kinds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953835062Author Tereza Riedlbauchov Format PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Visible SpectrumPublisher Visible SpectrumWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm)...

In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy Grail. Cline's translation, faithful to the highly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856305352Author Rainer RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811217262Author W. G. SebaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893046170Author Constantin BarbuFormat PaperbackPage Count 115Imprint Cross Cultural CommunicationsPublisher Cross Cultural CommunicationsWeight(grams)...

This anthology captures the excitement of one of the most challenging developments in contemporary French writing, the new metaphysical poetry which has become an influential strand in recent French literature. It is a rigorously ontological poetry...

Seizing: Places (Ravir: Les Lieux) was awarded the Prix Mallarme in 2005, the first time that a Canadian had won this prestigious prize. It is arguably Helene Dorion's most ambitious work to date, consisting of five sequences ('Seizing: Cities';...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918526564Author Anne HebertFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802808998Author Charles PeguyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374612856Author Adam ZagajewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g

In this verse translation of Cliges, written by Chretien de Troyes circa 1176, Ruth Harwood Cline not only preserves the artistry of the original work but also captures the wit, irony, and striking emotional power of Chretien's stylistic genius and...

French poet and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) was by turns venerated (in the eighteenth century) and reviled (in the nineteenth century) as the lawgiver of French classicism. Today critics see his achievement as more varied and complex...

Erec and Enide, the first of five surviving Arthurian romantic poems by twelfth-century French poet Chretien de Troyes, narrates a vivid chapter from the legend of King Arthur. Chretien's romances became the source for Arthurian tradition and influenced...

Sponde takes a common theme of the century, man coming to terms with death, with his own death; yet this experience is set forth with so profound a conviction, it is so refined in a chemical sense, that we study the poems as pure experience. Sonnets are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978170752Author Hedina Tahirovic SijercicFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Magoria BooksPublisher Magoria BooksWeight(grams) 131g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898751772Author Frederick SchillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008954038Author Owen WhitehouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g

A representative collection of early and late lyrics, and the famed hymn, Sagesse.Book InformationISBN 9780837198590Author Paul VerlaineFormat HardbackPage Count 61Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956191908Author Abdellatif La[biFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Leafe PressPublisher Leafe PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997301458Author Antonio GamonedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Quantum ProsePublisher Quantum ProseWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578929453Author Alexander BentleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Alexander BentleyPublisher Alexander BentleyWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888820198Author Lyubomir LevchevFormat PaperbackPage Count 107Imprint Dundurn GroupPublisher Dundurn GroupWeight(grams) 177g

Gathers lyric poems, satire, and essays about the German countryside and literature, by the nineteenth-century romantic poet.Book InformationISBN 9780826402653Author Heinrich HeineFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Continuum International Publishing...

Dirk van Bastelaere (born 1960) is regarded as one of the leading poets in Flanders. He came early to prominence with his first collection 'Vijf jaar' (Five Years, 1984), which was awarded the prize for the best first collection. In 1988 he published...

This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remarkably subtle work often considered to be the masterpiece of the twelfth-century French writer Chretien de Troyes. The creator of the Arthurian romance as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957064911Author Daniil KharmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Matteo PublishingPublisher Matteo Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826403117Author Gottfried BennFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432750350Author Kakos KakosFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996705615Author Robert PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Dutch Poet PressPublisher Dutch Poet PressWeight(grams) 213g