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Glauco Cambon asserts the independent significance of Michelangelo's poetry vis-a-vis his overwhelming contribution to the visual arts, while also investigating the formal and thematic relations of his writing to his sculpture and paintings Originally...

Translators Leonard Nathan and James Larson present seventy-five poems from Gunnar Ekelof's middle phase (1938-1959), a period that saw the production of his richest and most enduring poetry. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library...

Scaffolding is a sequence of eighty-two sonnets written over the course of a year, dated and arranged in roughly chronological order, and vividly reflecting life in New York City. In this, her third book of poetry, Elena Rivera uses the English sonnet as...

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...

"In Piccolo's poems we meet a Sicily latent in the country of the tourist guides and the history books, but it was Piccolo far more than, say, his cousin Lampedusa, who was destined to draw out the latencies, read the signatures, crack the code...These...

This book makes available the entire range of Ezra Pounds studies and translations of the technically complex philosophical poems of the thirteenth-century Florentine Guido Cavalcanti, Dante's first friend" and artistic rival. Originally published in...

This textual and intertextual analysis of the dialogue in Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose combines specific close readings of texts with a rich theoretical argument to establish Reason's moral primacy in the poem's economy. Originally published in 1984...

Nikos Engonopoulos (1907-1985) was one of the most prominent representatives of Greek Surrealist poetry and painting. Closely associated with Andreas Embeirikos, the "patriarch" of Surrealism in Greece, and with Nicolas Calas, an influential...

His biting satire, witty dialogue, and irreverent staging have made him a favorite with theatergoers for four centuries. This Norton Critical Edition of Moliere's most controversial and most often-performed play is based on Constance Congdon's acclaimed...

The collection of prose poems known as Le Spleen de Paris is an important, puzzling, and yet relatively neglected area of Baudelaire's work. This is the first study in English that is exclusively concerned with these texts. Approaching the poems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843917779Author Alessandro GallenziFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906614232Author Enrique JuncosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 209g

Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Summer 2010Arc 'Visible Poets' translation series, no. 29My soul is like these threads of spider silk tensed criss-cross between two apple treesRooted in an ancient folk song tradition, Kristiina Ehin's poetry...

Poetry is one of the major forms of expression in both Africa and the Arab World, and this anthology gives a glimpse of the most representative voices of the French-speaking countries of these two regions. The past half-century has confirmed their work...

Ivana Milankov is one of Serbia's best-known poets whose poems question themselves as much as they question the world around them. Distances in space and time are reduced to the size of a line break as the poet searches for meaning in experience; despite...

TRANSLATED BY MARA ROZITIS An extraordinary cycle of poems - magical, mysterious, sinister, funny - about exile, in which the protagonist, Wolf One-Eye, finds himself an exile from an ancient mythological landscape in a new realm of quarks and expanding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904556718Author Michael AugustinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 192g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903392782Author Gusztav BagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903392850Author Peter Van De KampFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901233209Format PaperbackImprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 900g

Orbita, founded in Riga in 1999, is a collective of Latvian poets writing in Russian whose unique work plays at the boundaries between various creative genres and cultures. This volume combines poetry, translation, imagery, web technologies, video and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897648469Author Gordon WalmsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Salmon Publishing LtdPublisher Salmon Poetry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869191696Author Stephan GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 445g

The prize-winning Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag has one of the most distinctive and subtle voices in contemporary German-language writing. Among her most recent poems are the Summer Elegies, published to much acclaim in Austria in 2002. These,...

Each poem in Catalan writer Ernest Farres' "Edward Hopper" is based on a painting by the American artist. Creating a narrative that follows a subject from small-town origins to big-city life, from youth to age, the story is Hopper's, yet it...

`I was born in Belgium, I'm Belgian. / But Belgium was never born in me.' So writes Leonard Nolens in `Place and Date', which captures a mood of political and social disillusionment amid a generation of Dutch-speaking Belgians. And throughout this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585101139Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904130666Author Jerome Luc MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser Press

In 1908 a small volume of poetry was published in Paris by an unknown author named A. O. Barnabooth-who in fact did not exist. Only after the book received favorable reviews by major French writers and critics did its real author, Valery Larbaud, step...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555973902Author Radmila LazicFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981808888Author Sabine SicaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Black Widow PressPublisher Black Widow PressWeight(grams) 363g

Selected by translator Dasha C. Nisula, this unique volume traces the development of modern free verse that extends from Croatia on the Adriatic to Russia in the East. Included are early pieces from the West to East Slavic belt, with the majority of...

Roman prosimetrique, le "Satyricon" de Petrone se distingue des romans grecs par une structure qui melange le recit prosaique avec des sequences versifiees. Cette ecriture de forme melee en "prosimetron" se prete a des insertions heteroclites. Aussi ce...

Hedi Kaddour's poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic-of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, or human cruelty. With Treason, the award-winning poet and translator Marilyn Hacker presents an...

The most prominent woman in Renaissance Florence, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici (1425-1482) lived during her city's golden age. Wife of Piero de' Medici and mother of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Tornabuoni exerted considerable influence on Florence's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226258881Author Wallace FowlieFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press

This bilingual edition of the contemporary master's fifth work, Ce qui fut sans lumi, re, will delight, engage, and stir all lovers of poetry. Included here is an extensive new interview with the poet in English translation. "Included here is a very...

Gennady Aygi's longtime translator and friend Peter France has compiled this moving collection of tributes dedicated to some of the writers and artists who sustained him while living in the Moscow "underground." Written in a quiet intensely expressive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940953854Author Asta Olivia NordenhofFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open Letter

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940953649Author Per Aage BrandtFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open Letter