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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385497008Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *...

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 9780374260798Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Through translations by two major contemporary poets and a scholar intimate with the Ponge canon, this volume offers selections of mostly earlier poetry -Le parti pris des choses, Pieces, Proemes, and Nouveau nouveau recueil-as representative of the...

Sarah Kirsch (1935 - 2013) is recognised as one of Germany's most powerful poets of the post-war era. She lived and worked first in East Germany, then (after political persecution) in the West, making her home finally in rural Schleswig-Holstein. Her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911414483Author Anatoly KudryavitskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Glagoslav Publications LtdPublisher Glagoslav Publications Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725948Author Sarah WimbushPage Count 32Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems...

From the author of the bestselling Darwin: A Life in Poems, Ruth Padel's new collection follows in the footsteps of one of the world's greatest composers, Beethoven, and investigates what his life and music might mean to us todayTwo hundred and fifty...

A previously untranslated gem of Surrealist prose poetry from the acclaimed French novelist In 1941, Julien Gracq, newly released from a German prisoner-of-war camp, wrote a series of prose poems that would come to represent the only properly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524692Author Enzo SicilianoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

Paul Valery (1871-1945) was a poet and essayist, and along with Verlaine and Mallarme is regarded as one of the most important Symbolist writers, and an influence on poets from Eliot to Ashbery. He had a quiet life by many standards, but in one respect...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486453491Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year 2017Velkom to Inklandt is a collection of poems in which Sophie Herxheimer brings to life the voice of her German Jewish Grent Muzzer Liesel, whose somewhat abrasive but eminently humane perspektiff she's been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486257914Author Mrs Henry SchoenfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 399Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377308Author Zuzanna GinczankaFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair...

This representative selection from the work of one of modern Greece's most fascinating poets was made shortly after his award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979. It is drawn from all periods of his distinguished career and traces his development...

George Szirtes came to Britain as an eight-year-old refugee after the Hungarian Uprising in 1956. Educated in England, he trained as a painter, and has always written in English. This comprehensive retrospective of his work covers poetry from over a...

First published: New York: Oxford University Press, 1939.Book InformationISBN 9780195004137Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press IncWeight(grams) 595gDimensions(mm) 204mm...

Hans Borli (1918-89) was born and lived in the wooded country of Hedmark in south eastern Norway. His days seem to have been divided into two separate parts: by day, he lived the physically demanding life of a lumberjack, but by night, he turned poet and...

Winner Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Winter 2012. Yannis Ritsos (1909 - 1990) is one of Greece's finest and most celebrated poets, and was nine times nominated for a Nobel Prize. Louis Aragon called him 'the greatest poet of our age'. He...

A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Czeslaw Milosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva HoffmanCzeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature, not least because he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179109Author Andrew DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 110gDimensions(mm)...

Collector's slipcased edition of the first ever standalone presentation of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features...

Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so...

Described as the "fifth gospel" because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one of the most important works in the literature of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406392Author Robert MinhinnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 56gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Originally published in 1970, Knots consists of a series of dialogue-scenarios that can be read as poems or brief plays, each complete in itself. Each chapter describes a different kind of relationship: the "knots" of the title: bonds of love,...

Luis de Camoes is world famous as the author of the great Renaissance epic The Lusiads, but his large and equally great body of lyric poetry is still almost completely unknown outside his native Portugal. In The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532710Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Just before Christmas 1944, Albrecht Haushofer had been delivered to the Gestapo prison in the Moabit district of Berlin. In solitary confinement, fettered hand and foot, he awaited a show trial with a predetermined outcome. After a while he was allowed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400031153Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 1024Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971255Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 132mm...

Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI. In The Self-Dismembered Man, poet Donald Revell offers new English translations of the most powerful poems Apollinaire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914232902Author NovalisFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.Publisher McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959118213Author Sophia-Maria NicolopoulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Querencia Press, LLCPublisher Querencia Press, LLCWeight(grams)...

Silver Medal Winner for Poetry at the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards.A powerful new anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia has found its expression in the words of the world's greatest poets.No, Love Is Not Dead is a timely...

French poet Paul Verlaine was a major representative of the symbolist movement during the latter half of the 19th century. Norman Shapiro's translations seek to display Verlaine's ability to transform into verse the essence of everyday life and make...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982185452Author Jim DossFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint Loch Raven Press, LLCPublisher Loch Raven Press, LLCWeight(grams) 767g