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The greatest French poet of the 19th century, Baudelaire was also the first truly modem poet, and his direct and indirect influence on the literature of our time has been immeasurable. Flowers of Evil: A Selection contains 53 poems which the editors...

A stunning collection that draws from four decades of verse by one of modern Greece's most lauded poets "Ganas skillfully melds loss with love. . . . A rich, rare view of a life spent in, or hoping to return, to Greece."-Publishers Weekly This is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592546Author Vincente AleixandreFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 453g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531607Author Adam ZagajewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Often compared with Apollinaire as the first and liveliest avant-garde poet in his language, Vicente Huidobro was a one-man movement ("Creationism") in the modernist swirl of Paris and Barcelona between the two World Wars. His masterpiece was the 1931...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528409Author Peter S HawkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

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...

Although he is now mostly remembered as a novelist, it is as a poet and a translator of poetry that Sandor Marai - the acclaimed author of 'Embers' and 'Conversations in Bolzano' - first made his name in the literary world. This collection, the first and...

C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) has written some of the most powerful poems in history. His work uncannily translates history, the record of the many, into an individual personal document. Though Cavafy is wickedly satirical, many of his poems are located in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061733574Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Using the works of Dante as its critical focus, Maria Rosa Menocal's original and imaginative study examines questions of truth, ideology, and reality in poetry as they occur in a series of texts and in the relationship between those texts across time...

To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934977272Author Guido CavalcantiFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592744Author Valzhyna MortFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Attilio Bertolucci was one of Italy's greatest modern poets. This book is the first English edition of his poetry. His translator Charles Tomlinson was known internationally as one of the most distinguished modern English poets: his poems were described...

Protean, erotic, scatological and experimental, Picasso's poetry is finally compiled in this essential anthology Pablo Picasso is arguably the most famous and influential artist of the 20th century. What few in the English-speaking world know is that...

The modernist masterpiece that is Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations has been given new life with the publication of John Ashbery's "dazzling" (The Economist) new translation, widely hailed as one of the literary events of the year. Presented with French...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528614Author Zagajewski AdamFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Eugenio de Andrade is the author of twenty-nine volumes of poetry as well as numerous children's books, collections of prose writings, and translations into Portuguese of Sappho, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Yannis Ritsos. Forbidden Words: Selected Poetry...

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...

Documenting the colourful escapades of the former gladiator Encolpius and his less than faithful lover Giton, the "Satyricon" plunges the reader into the lives of ordinary Roman citizens, vividly revealing the Empire's seamy underbelly. A host of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679722014Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilard Borbely, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from post-Communist Hungary, received numerous literary...

This exploration of poetry and national life in Poland and Russia from 1917 to the present also offers a comparative study of the poetry of the Eastern and Western sides of the "iron curtain," and an examination of these topics in light of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629633824Author Victor SergeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Othea's Letter to Hector, one of Christine de Pizan's most popular works, is at the same time one of her most complex creations. Combining a somewhat Sibylline verse text based on a mythological figure with extensive citation of pagan sapiential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906614096Author Fernando PessoaFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 135g

This volume of original essays is the first collection devoted to the monumental Roman de Melusine (1393) by Jean d'Arras. A masterwork of late fourteenth-century French prose fiction, Melusine tells of the powerful medieval dynasty of Lusignan from its...

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 Purgatorio. This volume consists of the prose translation of...

Making Luis de Gongora's work available to contemporary English-language readers without denying his historical context, Selected Poems of Luis de Gongora presents him as not only one of the greatest and most complex poets of his time, but also the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628973402Author Esad BabačicFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dalkey Archive PressPublisher Dalkey Archive Press

Raymond Queneau (1903-76) was born at Le Havre in 1903, where he was educated before studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. Between 1924 and 1929 Queneau was active in the surrealist movement and composed its manifesto, "Permettez!". Queneau...

Leopold Sedar Senghor was not only president of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, he is also one of Africa's most famous poets. A co-founder of the Negritude cultural movement, he is recognized by many as one of the most significant figures in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999261385Author Elisabeth RynellFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books

By one of Greece's foremost contemporary poets, Cicada is Phoebe Giannisi's second collection in English. The cicada signifies metamorphosis in this breathtaking, lyrical book, which evokes the spirits of Archilochus, Plato, Empedocles, and Heraclitus...

The twelfth-century French poet Chretien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty...

Unlike every known translator before him, Michael Palma re-creates Dante's masterpiece in all its dimensions, without emphasizing some aspects over others, rendering Inferno into contemporary American English while maintaining Dante's original triple...

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

Since his first collection of poetry appeared in 1953, Philippe Jaccottet has sought to express the ineffable that lies at the heart of our material world in his essential, elemental poetry. As one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of...

This is a new prose translation of Dante's epic. A newly edited version of the Italian text will be on facing pages. This edition includes fully comprehensive notes with the latest in contemporary scholarship as well as 16 short essays on special...