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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904556657Author Haris VlavianosFormat PaperbackImprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 160g

Introduction and Translation by Jonathan Galassi Montale's 'Posthumous Diary', now available for the first time in an English translation, is a collection of brief poems to a woman named Annalisa Cima that, when published 15 years after his death in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910345801Author Guillaume MassieuFormat HardbackImprint Arc PublicationsPublisher Arc Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897648612Author Peter van de KampFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Salmon Publishing LtdPublisher Salmon PoetryWeight(grams) 91g

'The only end of writing,' Dr Johnson said, 'is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.' "Misprint" offers the reader countries and languages perceived through the eyes of youth and loss. Untimely deaths and memories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572410633Author Phia RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 324g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988962767Author Norman R. ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Second Line PressPublisher Second Line PressWeight(grams) 408g

Internationally known collage artist Bernard Bador has been writing some of the most uniquely surrealist poetry of the modern era. This title presents an overview of his works.Book InformationISBN 9780984264094Author Bernard BadorFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984264063Author Clayton EshlemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint Black Widow PressPublisher Black Widow PressWeight(grams) 263g

Presents the story of a difficult love, from the first signs of tenderness through a life-and-death battle, to a reconciliation made necessary by wisdom.Book InformationISBN 9780981808833Author Andrei CodrescuFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Black...

In the United States, Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) is known mainly for his novel Zazie dans le metro, which was made into a film by Louis Malle, for Excercises in Style, and for being the founder and one of the most important members of the literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956034182Author Francis CombesFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack BooksWeight(grams) 370g

In a recent article in "Novy Mir," the critic Dmitry Polishchuk writes: "The 25-35-year-old generation is now experiencing an efflorescence-a new type of poetic vision, with a distinct poetic language, a new kind of baroque; with novel structures,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951375372Author Claude VigeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint The Menard PressPublisher The Menard Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892553655Author Ales DebeljakFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Persea Books IncPublisher Persea Books IncWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation This selection introduces a major poet who is also a business studies professor, a combination which may explain his vigorous questioning of human values in poetry which asks 'What is worthwhile?' His poems...

This bilingual collection of Aldo Vianello's poems draws on early translations by Richard Burns from Vianello's "Time of a Flower" (1968), with new versions by Peter Jay and Linda Lappin of poems from his later books. Vianello's exceptional lyric gift...

Justo Jorge Padron is one of Spain's leading poets. Born in Las Palmas, Grand Canary Island, in 1943, he is among the most representative poets of the Spanish Generation of the 1970s. The brilliance of his metaphorical imagination provides the Spanish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811206518Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"Guerin's eye for detail and knack for noticing even the most minute parallel or textual tradition is stunning. . . . The Fall of Kings and Princes is a valuable addition to Arthurian studies, offering the most...

Translated here in a bilingual edition is Gozzano's best and best-known collection of poems, The Colloquies, along with a selection of his other poems. Also included is an introductory essay by Eugenio Montale, the Italian poet and winner of the 1975...

Focusing on the fundamental Ariostan pairing of education and madness, with all its implications for poetry, Professor Ascoli generates a global reading of the greatest literary work of the Italian Renaissance Originally published in 1987. The...

Born in Bucharest of peasant stock, Tudor Arghezi (1880-1967) was awarded Romania's National Poetry Prize in 1946 and the State Prize for Poetry in 1956. The translators of this volume have endeavored not only to convey the spirit of the original...

Translated here in a bilingual edition is Gozzano's best and best-known collection of poems, The Colloquies, along with a selection of his other poems. Also included is an introductory essay by Eugenio Montale, the Italian poet and winner of the 1975...

Glauco Cambon draws on twenty-five years of commitment to Montale's poetry and prose for this extended critical analysis. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available...

Joan Ferrante analyzes the Divine Comedy in terms of public issues, which continued foremost in Dante's thinking after his exile from Florence. Professor Ferrante examines the political concepts of the poem in historical context and in light of the...

"Between the discovery that there is a design which only his poetry enables him to find as he confronts the world and the discovery that such a design is a snare, merely a means of keeping him from further discernment, Michael Rosen is wedged, is...

By examining the links between the planet Mars and the cross in the Heaven of the Warriors, Jeffrey Schnapp explores Dante's Christian rewriting of Virgil's Aeneid and Cicero's Republic at the center of the Comedy's, final canticle. Originally published...

Goran Sonnevi is one of Sweden's most celebrated, respected, and prolific poets. For this first book-length selection of Sonnevi to appear in English, Rika Lesser has chosen works written between 1971 and 1989--although most of the poems come from the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825367855Author Vladimir HolanFormat HardbackPage Count 621Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 599g

The Contes et nouvelles en vers of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were published at various times throughout his life, often these works threatened to get him in trouble with both Church and Academie. This translation covers the entire corpus in all...

This volume in the definitive edition of Thomas Traherne contains his best-known works, Centuries of Meditations and Select Meditations. Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674), a clergyman of the Church of England during the Restoration, was little known until...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999580318Author Jean-Pierre RosnayFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Black Widow PressPublisher Black Widow PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995767546Author Justyna BargielskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956034199Author Andras MezeiFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955106194Author Alan DentFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

Josep Carner's "Nabi" is a masterpiece of modern Catalan poetry. Based on the biblical story of Jonah, it is essentially a Christian poem, though it is scathing about the effects of religious perversion. In the widest sense a poem about the...

This selection has been the introduction for generations of American readers to the mesmerizing poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1937). Lorca is admired the world over for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability...

An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetry Szilard Borbely, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from post-Communist Hungary, received numerous literary...