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Poems of Paul Celan by Paul Celan 9780892552764
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $42.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892552764Author Paul CelanFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint -
Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan by Paul Celan 9780393322248
RRP: $57.12Booksplease Price: $45.20Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote "Todesfuge" ("Deathfugue"),... -
Conversation in the Mountains: Collected Prose of Paul Celan by Paul Celan 9780811240529
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.87"I am supposed to tell you some of the words I heard deep down in the sea where there is much silence and so much happens." So begins the first text in this indispensable volume, which includes:... -
Correspondence by Paul Celan 9780857426420
Booksplease Price: $36.87Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg... -
Selected Poems by Paul Celan
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97One of the major twentieth-century European poets, Paul Celan wrote poetry of exceptional linguistic brilliance and intensity drawn from his experiences, particularly of the war years and the loss of... -
Collected Prose Paul Celan 9781800175402
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.90Paul Celan's Collected Prose reissued as a Carcanet Classic.About the AuthorPaul Celan (1920-1970) was born Paul Antschel into a Jewish family in Bukovina, a German enclave in Romania which was ... -
Eye of the Times Paul Celan 9781910345047
RRP: $16.66Booksplease Price: $14.95It is generally accepted that Paul Celan is a notoriously 'difficult' poet to understand, yet this small collection, with an introduction by a leading expert on Holocaust poetry, and with each of the... -
Homage to Paul Celan by Ilya Kaminsky 9781934851357
RRP: $47.48Booksplease Price: $44.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934851357Author Ilya KaminskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint -
The Meridian: Final Version-Drafts-Materials by Paul Celan
RRP: $54.72Booksplease Price: $49.17Originally presented as a speech to the German Academy for Language and Poetry on the occasion of Celan's acceptance of the Georg Buchner Prize for literature, The Meridian is one of, if not the most... -
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel Yoko Tawada 9780811234870
Booksplease Price: $30.20Patrik, who sometimes calls himself "the patient," is a literary researcher living in present-day Berlin. The city is just coming back to life after lockdown, and his beloved opera houses are open... -
Luxury: Poems by Philip Schultz
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.27"...[R]eplete with insights and nuggets of wisdom" (The Washington Post), Philip Schultz's wry and incisive poetic voice takes on both the eternal questions of meaning and happiness and essentially... -
Breathturn Into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry: A Bilingual Edition by Paul Celan 9780374608033
Booksplease Price: $85.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374608033Author Paul CelanFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint -
Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition by Paul Celan 9780374603236
RRP: $83.30Booksplease Price: $57.50Translated by the prizewinning translator Pierre Joris, this bilingual edition follows the publication of Breathturn into Timestead, Paul Celan's collected later poetry. Finally, Celan's readers are... -
German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City Thomas Sparr 9781914979040
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Planned at the beginning of the 1920s as a garden city on the fringes of Jerusalem, the suburbs of Talbiyeh and Rehavia became a centre of emigration for German Jews from 1933 onwards, acquiring the... -
Joy: 100 Poems by Christian Wiman 9780300248630
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $32.30One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet"Bursting with energy and surprising locutions. . . . Even the most familiar poets seem somehow... -
Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich Von Kleist
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz KafkaMICHAEL KOHLHAAS HAS BEEN WRONGED. HE WILL HAVE JUSTICE.Based on the real life of an... -
Age of Confidence: The New Jewish Culture Wave: Celebrating Twenty Years of Jewish Renaissance by David Benmayer
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $11.61Taking the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as their starting point, five new essays look at how Jewish culture has changed over the past two decades. Covering music (Vanessa Paloma Elbaz), art (Monica Bohm... -
Kafkaesque: From Jorge Luis Borges to Primo Levi, Ten Writers Who Translated Kafka and Transformed Twentieth-Century Literature by Maïa Hruska 9780063486249
RRP: $66.62Booksplease Price: $39.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063486249Author Maia HruskaFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Heartwall by Richard Jackson
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $30.39Taking its title from a poem by Paul Celan, playing off the notion of the ""hart"" walls erected to corral deer for a mediaeval hunt, and evoking the physiology of the heart itself, these poems... -
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann 9780811228725
Booksplease Price: $35.94In Malina, originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, is torn between... -
Adonis: Selected Poems by Adonis
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.27The first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today "Poetry for [Adonis] is not merely a genre or an art form... -
Celan Studies by Peter Szondi
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $37.84Peter Szondi's Celan Studies marked the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second half of the twentieth century. The book's three studies each... -
Poetry as Experience by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe 9780804734271
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.70Lacoue-Labarthe's Poetry as Experience addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. In his analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan's poetry,... -
Celan Studies by Peter Szondi 9780804744010 [USED COPY]
RRP: $180.88Booksplease Price: $18.02Peter Szondi's Celan Studies marked the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second half of the twentieth century. The book's three studies each... -
Tristan with the 'Tristran' of Thomas by Gottfried Von Strassburg
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97One of the great romances of the Middle Ages, Tristan, written in the early thirteenth century, is based on a medieval love story of grand passion and deceit. By slaying a dragon, the young prince... -
Heine: Selected Verse by Heinrich Heine
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28'One of the first men of this century' is how Heine described himself when he claimed to have been born in the early hours of 1800. It was typical of Heine to create this humorous doubt - he was in... -
The Poetry of Birds: edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee by Simon Armitage
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01A STUNNING COLLECTION OF POEMS CURATED BY THE NEW POET LAUREATE AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOUR FIELDS___________________________'Some of the most ethereal verse ever written' Sunday Telegraph 'A... -
The Rig Veda by Wendy Doniger
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.30The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, the Rig Veda (c. 1200-900 BC) is a collection of... -
Pitch & Glint by Lutz Seiler 9781913505769
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.61On its original publication in 2000, Pitch & Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry. Rooted in Seiler's childhood home, an East German village brutally undermined by Soviet Russian... -
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Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grunbein, Brodsky by Michael Eskin 9780804758314 [USED COPY]
RRP: $152.32Booksplease Price: $15.23Poetic Affairs deals with the complex and fascinating interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of three outstanding poets: the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust... -
In Case of Loss by Lutz Seiler 9781913505783
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.61In Case of Loss gathers the best of Lutz Seiler's non-fiction from last twenty-five years, revealing his essays to be different to, but on a par with, his fiction and poetry. Seiler's beautifully... -
Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems by Robert Pinsky
RRP: $30.82Booksplease Price: $22.85This text gathers together all Robert Pinsky's poetry, including 21 new poems. The verse essay "An Explanation of America" (Carcarnet, 1980) remains at the heart of this work. The book also includes... -
Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self by Susan J. Brison 9780691244679
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $40.48A powerful personal narrative of recovery and an illuminating philosophical exploration of traumaOn July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan Brison was attacked from behind,... -
On Whitman by C. K. Williams 9780691176109
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $36.91In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as... -
Leaves of Hungry Grass: Poetry and Ireland's Great Hunger: 2016 by Vincent Woods 9780997837445
Booksplease Price: $31.15Taking poetry as an act of witness and restorative memory, this essay traces the development of poems relating to Ireland's Great Hunger from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. An... -
Otherwise Unchanged by Owen Lowery 9781847772008
Booksplease Price: $29.75The poems in Owen Lowery's first collection speak in a range of voices, offer glimpses into many lives and many worlds. At the same time, we hear in all of them Lowery's own voice. Incorporating... -
Forgiveness and Resentment in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity: Jewish Voices in Literature and Film by Idit Alphandary 9783112215357
RRP: $44.03Booksplease Price: $31.70The author's starting point is the interweaving of forgiveness and resentment in the works of Jewish writers after the Holocaust, most especially Hannah Arendt and Jean Amery, to make sense of the... -
There and Away: Topobiographies Rainer Nägele 9781501789151
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.27Rainer Nagele's There and Away charts a series of autobiographical topographies or "topobiographies" that map a life beginning in a working-class village in Liechtenstein to the places he traveled as... -
From the Valley of Bronze Camels: A Primer, Some Lectures, & A Boondoggle on Poetry by Jane Miller
RRP: $40.34Booksplease Price: $39.48Jane Miller loves poetry. In these provocative and deeply insightful essays, she unpacks the work of giants like Adrienne Rich, Paul Celan, Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam, and Federico Garcia... -
In My Father's House David Kinloch 9781857547665
RRP: $23.68Booksplease Price: $18.06A quick-tempered grandmother is singing; The Mikado is performed in an African village: David Kinloch explores his relationship with his father in unexpected and affectionate terms. An extended...