Spanish & Portuguese

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...

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

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'...

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

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251928Author Keith PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 252g

'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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394924161Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Sanage Publishing House LLPPublisher Sanage Publishing House LLP

'You have dark eyes. Gleams there that promise darkness'. Spanish poetry is astonishing in its richness and variety. This anthology covers the two great flowerings of Spanish verse: the first, which lasted to the end of the seventeenth century, and...

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...

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 9781732296961Author Gregg EisenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Eisenberg EnergyPublisher Eisenberg EnergyWeight(grams) 140g

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...

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 9781556594441Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 99g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550963878Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Exile EditionsPublisher Exile EditionsWeight(grams) 331g

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...

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...

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 9789394924178Author Pablo NerudaFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Sanage Publishing House LLPPublisher Sanage Publishing House LLP

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417558260Author Rosa Garcia PereaFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint AlmuzaraPublisher AlmuzaraWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 122mm * 10mm

Rafael Alberti's collection of poems set in vibrant Rome, his home in exile from Spain. After his long exile in France and Argentina following the Spanish Civil War, Rafael Alberti's final home in exile was Rome, where he wrote Roma: Peligro para...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625577184Author Lisa HitonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Black Lawrence PressPublisher Black Lawrence Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625570956Author Lisa HitonFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Black Lawrence Press, Inc.Publisher Black Lawrence Press, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788416517084Author Magdalena BlesaFormat PaperbackImprint UranoPublisher UranoWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 132mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788416517152Author Magdalena BlesaFormat PaperbackImprint UranoPublisher UranoWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 180mm * 132mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788441413078Author Jorge ManriqueFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Edaf AntillasPublisher Edaf AntillasWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 109mm *...

Love. Sex. Death. Meat. Traffic. Pets. In Cattle of the Lord, Rosa Alice Branco offers a stunning poetic vision at once sacred and profane, a rich evocation of daily life troubled by uneasy sacramentality. In a collection translated by Alexis Levitin...

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English. She deserves better, particularly as the ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949805239Author Joxe Mari IparragirreFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Center for Basque StudiesPublisher Center for Basque StudiesWeight(grams) 454g

Sor Maria de Santa Isabel, writing under the pseudonym Marcia Belisarda, was one of the most prolific female poets of seventeenth-century Spain. The body of her known work is preserved in one manuscript in the Biblioteca Nacional Espanola (Madrid), ms...

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

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...

This volume brings together poems from six collections originally published between 1990 and 2011. I have divided the selection into five sections that correspond, broadly, to the separate stages in which they were written. The final and briefest one...