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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967880822Author Leda SchiavoFormat PaperbackImprint Black Swan PressPublisher Black Swan PressWeight(grams) 127g

Climates is suffused with the single-minded desire to fully inhabit, and be inhabited by, a place: Acadie. The political push-and-pull of being Acadian is a constant, even when the mutability of personal life is in the foreground. The four sections of...

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...

Dariusz Sosnicki's poems open our eyes to the sublime just beneath the surface of the mundane: a train carrying children away from their parents for summer vacation turns into a ravenous monster; a meal at a Chinese restaurant inspires a surreal journey...

"Mystical, mischievous, and musical, Kuciak enchants me with the scope of her imagination, her whimsical flirtations with identity, theology, and the very nature of human existence. I am delighted by her lyrical flare, her wit, and her remarkable ability...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934414880Author Jacek GutorowFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 142g

A collection celebrating the Centennial of seminal modernist Macedonian poet Aco šopov. This substantive collection represents Šopov's creative career, starting with his first book of poetry in 1944, when he was fighting in the Yugoslav resistance to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942281115Author Xhevdet BajrajFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint LaertesPublisher LaertesWeight(grams) 104g

"To the pantheon of East European poets-Zagajewski, Szymborska, Herbert, Holub -- we must now add Martinaitis. 'K.B.,' the poet's common-man alter ego, has one foot in the miseries and fears of the post-Soviet era, one in the usual turmoils of the human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913432720Author Angela ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Stairwell BooksPublisher Stairwell BooksWeight(grams) 133g

With unprecedented clarity and care, Gianna Pomata brings an important text in the history of scientific authorship to the attention of modern-day readers. Published in Spain in 1587 under the name of Oliva Sabuco, True Philosophy of Human Nature, of...

Sonnets to Orpheus is Rainer Maria Rilke's first and only sonnet sequence. It is an undisputed masterpiece by one of the greatest modern poets, translated here by a master of translation, David Young. Rilke revived and transformed the traditional...

Joseph Alston James provides the only modern edition of Octavien de Saint-Gelais's Le Sejour d'honneur. A highlight of this edition is the inclusion of illustrations from the manuscript de Saint-Gelais presented to Charles VIII. James's critical work for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530754Author Yves BonnefoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571314611Author Malena MoerlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Milkweed EditionsPublisher Milkweed EditionsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Spanning nearly sixty years, these poems-both new English compositions and Nina Cassian's translations of her work in Romanian-blend her gallows humor with an engagement with the human experience.About the AuthorNina Cassian (1924-2014) was born in...

C.P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) is one of the most important Greek poets since antiquity. He was born, lived, and died in Alexandria (1863-1933), with brief periods spent in England, Constantinople, and Athens. Cavafy set in motion the most...

This newest collection of poems from Tomaz Salamun is exuberant, ambitious, and full of surprises. Here the devil is encountered and understood- I see the devil's head, people, I see his whole body . . . he longs for innocence, as we do. Here the poet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345483577Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 174mm * 105mm...

This volume combines a general introduction, an in-depth study of, an interview with, and five original poems by German poet, Sarah Kirsch. Five essays by different Germanists focus on various aspects of Kirsch's work - from the structure and style of...

Since the Roman de la Rose had tremendous influence on the poetry of the fourteenth century, particularly on the works of Deschamps, Machaut, Froissart, and Chaucer, Professor Fleming maintains that it is important for the modern reader to understand...

Advancing new material and fresh insight into ""Roman de Melusine"" (1393), the essays in this volume address the complex interplay of the conventions of medieval fictional, historical, and genealogical writing from a wide variety of critical...

In The Purgatorio, Dante describes his journey to the renunciation of sin, accepting his suffering in preparation for his coming into the presence of God. This brilliant translation of Dante?s canticle crystallizes the great poet?s immortal conception of...

As a poet, Perquin is able to get into the minds of others. Whether they are the delinquents presented to us in Cell Inspections or the nameless, strange, but extremely recognizable figures in her other work. The reader always gets the feeling that she...

The works of Gjeke Marinaj, Albania's leading poet, have been praised, translated, published, and discussed in over twenty languages and countries. His most celebrated poem, "Horses," drew the attention of the dictatorship's censors when it was published...

During the first half of the reign of Louis XIV, Charles Perrault enjoyed the status of a prominent public intellectual. A key player in the development of the arts, he has commonly been situated in French literary and cultural history as the spokesman...

A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804718608Author Rachel JacoffFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628971781Author Domingo NotaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Dalkey Archive PressPublisher Dalkey Archive Press

Slavko Mihalic (1928-2007) is one of the giants in Croatian literature of the second half of the 20th century. He was an anthologist, publisher, editor, critic, writer for children, authored over twenty books of poetry, and established several literary...

Multiverse brings together four decades of work by the multi-lingual poet of whom Joseph Brodsky said “Listen carefully, she has something to say”. Sofronieva’s poetry covers a wide range from short lyrics to sequences of long poems adopting a playful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982746653Author Marjan StrojanFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Autumn Hill BooksPublisher Autumn Hill BooksWeight(grams) 431g

How are the numerous member states of the European Union today to reach proper consensus on an eventual common EU social model? In this meditative and reflective philosophical, literary, and social inquiry, first presented as invited lectures at the...

Garcilaso de la Vega (ca. 1501-36), a Castilian nobleman and soldier at the court of Charles V, lived a short but glamorous life. As the first poet to make the Italian Renaissance lyric style at home in Spanish, he is credited with beginning the golden...

A long-unavailable classic of 1960s visual poetry that atomizes and recombines the building blocks of language A key figure-and one of the few women-in the Italian neo-avanguardia of the 1960s and 1970s, Giovanna Sandri (1923-2002) was renowned for...

Efe Duyan translates the silent intention behind our instinctive, urgent need of human expression and connection. Duyan's poetry is based on finding unique linguistic forms that fit the respective content of the poem. Through a visible structure, he...

The poems in Jenei's collection Always Different: Poems of Memory grapple with childhood, memory, and time. The poet looks back forty years and imagines himself as a boy-the narrator of the poems-looking forward into the future. Thus the poems combine...

The description for this book, The Survivors and Other Poems, will be forthcoming.Book InformationISBN 9780691013329Author Tadeusz RozewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher Princeton University PressWeight(grams)...

Born into a wealthy family in Toulouse, Gabrielle de Coignard (ca. 1550-86) married a prominent statesman in 1570. Widowed three years later, with two young daughters to raise, Coignard turned to writing devotional verse to help her cope with her...

The poet brings his fascination with formal poetry to 21st century subjects - internet culture, science, postmodern architecture - even as he also explores intimacy, gay love, and emotionally-charged objects in this bilingual (Polish/English) collection...

A bold, engaged new anthology spotlighting the work of contemporary Dutch poets. What shape does Dutch art take in the American imagination? Austere, perhaps. Insular. Fixated on nature, every writer's "traditional source of consolation."...