Spanish & Portuguese

'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring,And her soul sings unencumberedBecause the song's what makes her sing.'Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal's greatest poets trace a...

One of the finest of epic poems, and the only one to have survived from medieval Spain, The Poem of the Cid recounts the adventures of the warlord and nobleman Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar - 'Mio Cid'. A forceful combination of heroic fiction and historical...

This is the largest and richest volume of poetry by Pessoa available in English. It includes generous selections from the three poetic alter egos that the Portuguese writer dubbed "heteronyms" - Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Alvaro de Campos - and...

Translated by Gloria Garcia Lorca, the writer's niece, and Jane Duran, the family friend who became a celebrated poet, Gypsy Ballads is the most authentic version of Romancero Gitano imaginable. In their new translation Jane Duran and Gloria Garcia Lorca...

My heartbrims with billowsand minnowsof shadows and silverBeautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn, in a selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new translations.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the...

Deeply admired by poets far more familiar to us, from Lorca to William Carlos Williams, the poems of Miguel Hernandez (1910-42), written in the midst of the savage 20th century, beam with a gentleness of heart. Hernandez was a self-educated goatherd from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781717119896Author Mar EscribanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Selected Poems brings together some two hundred poems - the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English, including many never previously translated. The brilliance of the Spanish originals is matched with luminous English versions...

Here, in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari's splendid new translations, are the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro, the imaginary "heteronym" coterie created by Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese modernist master. Pessoa conceived Caeiro around 1914...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251003Author Richard ZenithFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 420g

Spain's greatest and most well-loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work, which drew on music, drama, mythology and the songs of his Andulucian childhood. From the playful Suites and...

'There has been no more terribly acute critic of America than this steel-conscious and death-conscious Spaniard, with his curious passion for the modernities of nickel and tinfoil and nitre . . .' So wrote Conrad Aiken of Lorca's violent response to the...

Many critics regard the work of Saint John of the Cross (1542-91), the 16th-century mystic, to be among the finest poetry Spain has produced. This bilingual edition, the first in modern English, was originally published in hard cover in 1968 by the...

"At last, at last, at last, Pessoa again! More Pessoa! One of the very great poets of the twentieth century, again and more! And one of the fascinating figures of all literature, with his manifold identities, his amazing audacities, his brilliance and...

World-Ana Luisa Amaral's second collection with New Directions-offers a new exhilarating set of poems that convey wonder, bemusement and an ever-deepening appreciation of life. Weaving the thread that connects the poem to life, World speaks of our...

Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist, was murdered by Fascist partisans in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He was by then an immensely popular figure, celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528553Author Federico Garcia LorcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published...

The writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself, using them to express 'great swarms of thought and feeling'...

Alvaro de Campos is one of the most influential heteronyms created by Portugal's great modernist writer Fernando Pessoa. According to Pessoa, Campos was born in Tavira (Algarve) in 1890 and studied mechanical engineering in Glasgow, although he never...

Cyrus Cassells, a masterful poet and translator, has created a unique and powerful hybrid translation/poetic homage to Catalunya's great twentieth-century poet Salvador Espriu. The lion's share of To the Cypress Again and Again is a supple translation of...

An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one if the most acclaimed translators of our time.A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Gongora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic...

With the elliptical looping of a butterfly alighting on one's sleeve, the poems of Ana Luisa Amaral arrive as small hypnotic miracles. Spare and beautiful in a way reminiscent both of Szymborska and of Emily Dickinson (it comes as no surprise that Amaral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176290Author Miguel HernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award 2020. Spain's greatest living poet, Pere Gimferrer (b.1945) has written more than thirty books spanning verse, fiction, essay, and criticism. His earliest writings appeared in Spanish. In 1970 he began...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788416517084Author Magdalena BlesaFormat PaperbackImprint UranoPublisher Urano

The two sequences of this book form a braided ars poetica: "Killing Plato" and "Writing." The first is a numbered sequence of twenty-eight poems organized around an accident: a pedestrian has been hit by a truck and is dying in the middle of the road...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608010882Author Jose Maria HinojosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681122748Author Tobias TakFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint NBM Publishing CompanyPublisher NBM Publishing Company

A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and SpainThe rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros,...

In Real Life: An Online Love Story is the first of its kind-a bilingual novel-in-poetry written by popular Spanish-language poet Leticia Sala. In Real Life is not only about a young Barcelona woman who finds romance online thousands of miles away in New...

Joan Margarit (1938-2021) was one of Spain's major modern writers. He worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish, but over the past four decades became known for his mastery of the Catalan language, and was Spain's most widely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524711191Author Federico Garcia LorcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

Written while Federico Garcia Lorca was a student at Columbia University in 1929-30, Poet in New York is one of the most important books he produced, and certainly one of the most important books ever published about New York City. Indeed, it is a book...

Longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in TranslationDaybook 1918: Early Fragments is the first substantial selection in English from the prose poetry of the major Catalan writer J. V. Foix (1893-1987). The core of Lawrence Venuti's edition is...

Joan Margarit (1938-2021) was one of Spain's major modern writers. He worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish, but over the past four decades became known for his mastery of the Catalan language, and was Spain's most widely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781722992Author Rhiannon HoosonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 99g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594441Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 99g

One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2016 "Cortazar's verse is more traditional than his fiction, but his style and themes are in harmony across genres: eccentric, mystical, full of animals but deeply human. Cortazar is a people's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933227818Author Ana Luisa AmaralFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts Press