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The penultimate work from renowned Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun, Andes was written less than three years before his death in 2014. Together, the poems of Andes are an exceptional and unusual journey that confronts both life and death across diverse...

The first full length translation into English of Peret's Le Grand Jeu (The Big Game, first published in 1928). Benjamin Peret (1899-1959) was one of the founders of Surrealism (with Andre Breton and Louis Aragon). The Big Game was Peret's best known...

A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"This is an exceptional and important volume in which close readings of four major European writers daringly eradicate the border between commentary and literature. In precise analyses of particular texts, Frey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934200537Author Anne PortugalFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint La PressePublisher La PresseWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 150mm * 8mm

Poetry rejoices even if the culture dies,over the girl with her first electric, how her high,thin voice, amplified many timesover by the loudspeaker, is like a giant'sin the green grass of the festival site.from 'Poetry rejoices...'Dog Star Notations...

Thirty short poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, with woodcuts by Raoul Dufy, of Dufy, that celebrate mammals, birds, fish, insects, and the mythical poet and prophet Orpheus-filled with surprising images, wit, formal mastery, and wry irony.First published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737277569Author Helge TorvundFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Song CavePublisher Song Cave

A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804720458Author Valeria FinucciFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442639324Author Louise LabeFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307264244Author Anna AkhmatovaFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Potter StylePublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 167mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812967210Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 332g

In close readings of a wide range of texts significant during their own time but little studied today, the author presents a new view of late medieval French poetry in all its subtle variety: its quirkiness, its sumptuous and acrobatic rhyming, its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628971101Author Milan JesihFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dalkey Archive PressPublisher Dalkey Archive PressWeight(grams) 666g

The history of the Grail legend begins with a romance composed by Chretien de Troyes in the last decades of the twelfth century, Perceval ou Le Conte du Graal. Whereas Chretien's earlier romances explored the secular tensions generated by chivalric and...

For Hermenegilde Chiasson, every work of art is both a cry and a prayer. Beatitudes reflects this perspective by connecting everyday events -- people losing their keys or their cellphone signals -- to the universal. Sighs, silences, and human utterances...

At last available in English translation, "Soy Realidad" is Toma alamun's twenty-first collection of poetry, originally published in 1985. Showing a maturing poet at home as a citizen of the world, "Soy Realidad" ranges far from alamun's Slovenia,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804719469Author Marian Zwerling SuganoFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934977173Author Cinzia Sartini BlumFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 468g

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism. Over the years, her poetry became symbolic of an ethical consciousness that refuses to be silenced by a totalitarian governments. This new translation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983697213Author Luca GherasimFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 250g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901233261Format PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 95g

A comprehensive bilingual collection of twentieth-century French poetry Not since the publication of Paul Auster's The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry (1984) has there been a significant and widely read anthology of modern French poetry...

Poems Under Saturn is the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest of nineteenth-century writers. This new...

While Cernuda's verse is vivid testimony to various aspects of his biographical itinerary, it is in his prose poems that he traces more explicitly an outline of his life's journey. Reviewing this work, Octavio Paz wrote: "In these memories and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812977264Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the Paradiso. This volume consists of the prose translation of...

The formative work of the legendary poet who sought to write "not feelings but things I had felt" When Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris for the first time in September 1902, commissioned by a German publisher to write a monograph on Rodin,...

Tua Forsstroem is a visionary Finland-Swedish poet who has become Finland's most celebrated contemporary poet. Her poetry draws its sonorous and plangent music from the landscapes of Finland, seeking harmony between the troubled human heart and the...

Tua Forsstrom is a visionary Finland-Swedish poet who has become Finland's most celebrated contemporary poet. Her breakthrough came when she was still only 30 with her sixth collection, "Snow Leopard", which brought her international recognition, with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594481567Author Anita BarrowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

A concise introduction, text, and commentary on this Book, the turning point in the plot of the poem and one of its poetical peaks, rich in vivid speech and psychology, and raising fundamental questions about heroism and the meaning of human life. There...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486408835Author A L AlgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 242gDimensions(mm)...

Doris Kareva is one of Estonia's leading poets, and 'Shape of Time' is her eleventh book of poetry and her first full collection to be published in the UK. The poet suggests that it is composed like a piece of music in three 'movements'. The first,...

Attila Jozsef is Hungary's greatest modern poet. His extraordinary poetry is exhilarating in its power, transcending the scars of a difficult life. Born into poverty in 1905, deserted by his father and put out to fostering, Jozsef had a brutalised...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359928866Author Gabriele D'AnnunzioFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint 978-0-359-92886-6Publisher 978-0-359-92886-6Weight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Widely held to be the most influential Polish poet of a generation that includes Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, Tadeusz Rozewicz gives voice in the sharpest, most disturbing way to the crisis of values that has plagued our civilization. Joanna...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398447264Author Gazmend KryeziuFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264561Author Vitezslav NezvalFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon PressWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526870Author Adam ZagajewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

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...