Spanish & Portuguese

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...

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...

Maria Baranda and Paul Hoover present revitalized translations of some of the most beloved poems of the Golden Age of Spanish literature.In 1578, during months of imprisonment for his reformist beliefs, San Juan de la Cruz composed a series of narrative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839541070Author Paulo De MedeirosFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Winner of the 2016 Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation "In Returnings, we are treated to an essay on the imaginative possibilities of a great poet, long exiled from his native land, turning memory into verse, recovering from the past everything that...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784350918Author Jacint VerdaguerFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Jiahu BooksPublisher Jiahu BooksWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

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,...

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 9781933227818Author Ana Luisa AmaralFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts Press

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949938111Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint StockceroPublisher StockceroWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782228165Author Francisco BrinesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Paragon PublishingPublisher Paragon PublishingWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm)...

Salvador Espriu was born in 1913. A member of the so-called generation of '36-those who were in their twenties at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War-Espriu became a voluntary exile in his own land. Writing in a forbidden language, hyperconscious of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251492Author Richard ZenithFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 553g

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...

Jose Juan Tablada (1871-1945) wrote more than 20 books on a range of subjects in several genres but is best known as an avant-garde poet of the Mexican Modernista movement. Now all three volumes of his experimental poetry - Un dia...poemas sinteticos, El...

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 9781934824689Author Juan GelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open LetterWeight(grams) 282g

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,...

Pessoa wrote a large number of poems in English, some of them in the guise of early heteronyms (such as Alexander Search and Charles Robert Anon) which prove to be fascinating precursors of the later, modernist work in Portuguese. While not the equal of...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Miguel de Unamuno, one of Spain's foremost literary figures, is better known for his essays and novels than for his poetry. Yet it was as a poet that he wished to be remembered and it is in his poems that he reveals the most intimate and sensitive part...

A collection of dark, funny Iberian poems about drinking, sex and death. Manuel Vilas speaks in the voice of bitter experience, experience which seems intent on sending him up. He is a novelist as well as a poet, and his poems tell stories as the...

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...

Victor Rodriguez Nunez is one of today's most outstanding Cuban writers, although he has lived and worked outside of the island for nearly two decades, first in Nicaragua and Colombia and, since 1995, in the USA. The present collection, based on his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887276269Author Azahara PalomequeFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Cool Grove PressPublisher Cool Grove PressWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985431735Author João Luis Barreto GuimarãesFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Hidden RiverPublisher Hidden RiverWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985125320Author Bria UniqueFormat HardbackPage Count 58Imprint Bria UniquePublisher Bria UniqueWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622882656Author Cyrus CassellsFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Stephen F. Austin University PressPublisher Stephen F. Austin University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911469780Author Pedro SerranoFormat PaperbackImprint Arc PublicationsPublisher Arc Publications

Miguel de Unamuno, one of Spain's foremost literary figures, is better known for his essays and novels than for his poetry. Yet it was as a poet that he wished to be remembered and it is in his poems that he reveals the most intimate and sensitive part...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954218031Author Antonio GamonedaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848616578Author Yolanda CastanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Shearsman BooksPublisher Shearsman BooksWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798201430894Author Mois BenarrochFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Mois BenarrochPublisher Mois BenarrochWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916938731Author Cat WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Broken Sleep BooksPublisher Broken Sleep BooksWeight(grams) 45g

Now you slip away in sleep.Your boat is sea-mist, dreaming, by the shore.Spain’s most beloved poet, Federico García Lorca brilliantly captures the beauty and brutality of the twentieth century. His creative imagination transcends his own experiences – be...