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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916390310Author Philippe JaccottetFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University PressWeight(grams)...

**WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARD 2018****SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION**A war-poem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s during a period of vigilance and dread in the middle of the Cold...

Alain-Fournier's poems, while relatively few, are one of the small pearls washed up in the maelstrom of early twentieth-century France. Best known for his novel Le Grand Meaulnes, a posthumous classic, Alain-Fournier was killed in battle in 1914. His...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020. A Review 31 Book of the Year 2020. With The Barbarians Arrive Today, Evan Jones has produced the classic English Cavafy for our age. Expertly translated from Modern Greek, this edition presents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590108Author Jaan KaplinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934977371Author Gaspara StampaFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374260798Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 359Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

On 26 April, 1986 at 1.23 am, in the cool dark of an early Saturday, the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear complex exploded. "Heavy Water" is based on eyewitness accounts of the Chernobyl disaster. Petrucci takes up the challenge confronting...

Written by Rimbaud at the age of 18 in the wake of his tempestuous affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine, A Season in Hell has been a touchstone for anguished poets, artists, and lovers for more than a century.Book InformationISBN 9780195017601Author...

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)...

Although the troubadours flourished at the height of the Middle Ages in southern France, their songs of romantic love, with pleasing melodies and intricate stanzaic patterns, have inspired poets and songwriters ever since, from Dante to Chaucer, from...

Originally compiled and published in 1988, this volume contains the text and translation of 'The Pilgrimmage of Charlemagne' and 'Aucassin and Nicolette,' alongisde textual notes and a bibliography for both.About the AuthorGlyn S. Burgess, Anne Elizabeth...

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...

An extraordinary collection of sonnets composed while the poet was in solitary confinement and deprived of writing materials in a Vichy prison between December 1941 and February 1942, in a new prize-winning translation.Introduction by Alistair Elliotwith...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591082Author Anna SwirFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780911005097Author Gaston BachelardFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Dallas Institute of Humanities & CulturePublisher Dallas Institute of Humanities &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764804946Author Joseph GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Liguori Publications,U.S.Publisher Liguori Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

From surrealist fable to traditional folk-tale, from personal anecdote to tribal myth, Popa's poetry embodies in an original form the most profound imaginative truths of our age, precisely located in the reality and history of Serbia, in the heart of...

One of Moldova's most awarded poets, Emilian Galaicu-Pa un's style is rich with references at once playful and thematically serious, at times even comic. Canting Arms, the first collection to bring Emilian Galaicu-Paun's work to Anglophone readers, is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062883193Author Zbigniew HerbertFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

The bilingual, illustrated, and National Book Award-winning edition of Charles Baudelaire's masterpiece. The complete French text is accompanied with an English translation by Richard Howard.Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day...

Soleiman Adel Guemar was born and raised in Algiers where he worked as a journalist. He published numerous stories and won two national poetry prizes. In 2002 he left Algeria to seek safety for himself and his family in the UK. 'Sate of Emergency', a...

In Lautreamont and Sade, originally published in 1949, Maurice Blanchot forcefully distinguishes his critical project from the major intellectual currents of his day, surrealism and existentialism. Today, Lautreamont and Sade, these unique figures in the...

We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rilke was staying at a castle (Duino) on the sea near Trieste. One morning he walked out on the battlements and climbed down to where the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714528960Author Yevgeny Aleksandrovich YevtushenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

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...

The most published and lauded woman writer of early sixteenth-century Italy, Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) in effect defined what was the "acceptable" face of female authorship for her time. Hailed by the generation's leading male literati as an equal,...

The first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered 'far and away the best living woman poet' in her day.Andrew Motion's Spectator Book of the Year.'One of the many achievements of This Rare Spirit is its rejection of that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486270920Author Charles BaudelaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

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 9780374528577Author Joseph BrodskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Karin Boye is Sweden's greatest woman poet. Born in 1900, she was a poet of ideas, and wrote a powerful prophetic novel, Kallocain. Her involvement in the radical literary and artistic movement Clarte during the 1920s led to her interest in...

Although Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet's place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. "Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the...

Banned and slighted in his lifetime, the book that contains all of Baudelaire's verses has opened up vistas to the imagination and quickened sensibilities of poets everywhere. Yet it is questionable whether a single translator can give adequate voice to...

Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most lyrical and moving pieces of poetry in any language, abounding with examples of his genius for wordplay, rhythm and metaphor and dealing with the eternal themes of love, memory, beauty and the ravishes of time...

With the economy of a proverb and the psychological insight of a novel, Toon Tellegen's acclaimed sequence Raptors depicts the dynamics of a family held hostage by the mood-swings and histrionics of a father, a figure both comic and terrifying, grotesque...

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...

Lithuania's Tomas Venclova is one of Europe's greatest living poets. His work speaks with a moral depth exceptional in contemporary poetry. Venclova's poetry addresses the desolate landscape of the aftermath of totalitarianism, as well as the ethical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524524Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524524Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm)...