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Reconstruction of the Poet: Uncollected Works of Zbigniew Herbert by Zbigniew Herbert 9780062883209
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062883209Author Zbigniew HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CollinsPublisher... -
Selected Poems Zbigniew Herbert 9780241654613
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Selected and introduced by J. M. Coetzee and Alissa Valles, an essential gathering of poetry from one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent literary voices be courageous when reason fails you be... -
The Collected Poems: 1956-1998 by Zbigniew Herbert 9780060783952
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060783952Author Zbigniew HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 601Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco... -
Still Life with a Bridle: Essays and Apocryphas by Zbigniew Herbert 9780880013208
Booksplease Price: $15.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880013208Author Zbigniew HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO... -
A Study Guide for Zbigniew Herbert's Why the Classics by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375396370
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $12.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375396370Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Gale, Study... -
The Ghost of Shakespeare: Collected Essays by Anna Frajlich 9781644694718
Booksplease Price: $105.59This volume collects the critical prose of award-winning writer Anna Frajlich. The Ghost of Shakespeare takes its name from Frajlich's essay on Nobel Prize laureate Wislawa Szymborska, but informs... -
The Book of Frank by CAConrad
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.58A visceral, surrealist tale of becoming, from the shamanic cult hero of contemporary queer poetryBeguiling, outrageous, playfully morbid and frequently stunning in its surreal flights of imagination,... -
Tradition, Literature and Politics in East-Central Europe by Carl Tighe
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.92Milan Kundera warned that in in the states of East-Central Europe, attitudes to the west and the idea of 'Europe' were complex and could even be hostile. But few could have imagined how the collapse... -
Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile by Carmen Bugan 9780367601560
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.92This book looks at how the poetry of Seamus Heaney, born of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, has encountered the 'historically-tested imaginations' of Czeslaw Milosz, Joseph Brodsky, Osip... -
Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile by Carmen Bugan
Booksplease Price: $107.51This book looks at how the poetry of Seamus Heaney, born of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, has encountered the 'historically-tested imaginations' of Czeslaw Milosz, Joseph Brodsky, Osip... -
After the Fall: On the Writings of Czesław Miłosz by Tomasz Garbol 9783631816981
RRP: $72.05Booksplease Price: $65.03Tomasz Garbol's book reconstructs Czeslaw Milosz's poetic vision of the world after the Fall. The entry point to this approach is the conviction about the ambivalence of previous interpretations of... -
Through the Poet's Eye: The Travels of Zagajewski, Herbert, and Brodsky 9780810125926
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.18Though best known as poets, Zbigniew Herbert (1924-98), Joseph Brodsky (1940-96), and Adam Zagajewski (b. 1945) also wrote some of the most original prose of this century. It is this prose -... -
World under Revision: The Poetry of Wislawa Szymborska by Mikolaj Golubiewski 9783631676042
RRP: $59.28Booksplease Price: $53.64This book provides a comprehensive overview of the entirety of Wislawa Szymborska's poetic oeuvre. The author employs in-depth historical reflection on Szymborska's beginnings to reveal that -... -
Poems About Trees Harry Thomas 9781841598178
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86For thousands of years humans have variously worshipped trees, made use of them, admired them, and destroyed them- and poets have long chronicled the relationship. In this collection, Robert Frost's... -
Necessities Christopher Merrill 9781935210467
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $9.68"Merrill is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinary rich generation. His range of sympathy, subject, and tone has always been prodigious."--W. S. Merwin ... -
Poems of Healing by Karl Kirchwey
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.75From ancient Greece and Rome (Sappho, Marcellus Empiricus) to the current Covid 19 crisis (Eavan Boland's 'Quarantine'), poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human... -
The Gazer within by Larry Levis 9780472097180
Booksplease Price: $95.27The Gazer Within collects the prose of one of America's favorite poets. Refreshingly candid, laugh-out-loud funny, and, at the same time, intimate, the pieces trace Larry Levis's early years growing... -
The Gazer within by Larry Levis 9780472067183
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $21.40The Gazer Within collects the prose of one of America's favorite poets. Refreshingly candid, laugh-out-loud funny, and, at the same time, intimate, the pieces trace Larry Levis's early years growing... -
From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry by David Wojahn
Booksplease Price: $107.38David Wojahn examines the state of American verse as it enters the first decades of a new millennium, focusing on both the challenges and opportunities of an ancient art as it tries to adapt to the... -
Yehuda Amichai Selected Poems by Yehuda Amichai
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Yehuda Amichai was first brought to attention in this country by his inclusion in Modern Poetry in Translation (1965). The magazine's editors, Daniel Weissbort and Ted Hughes, here provide a... -
Global Wallace: David Foster Wallace and World Literature by Lucas Thompson 9781501342707
Booksplease Price: $48.77David Foster Wallace is invariably seen as an emphatically American figure. Lucas Thompson challenges this consensus, arguing that Wallace's investments in various international literary traditions... -
From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry by David Wojahn 9780472052509
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $31.14David Wojahn examines the state of American verse as it enters the first decades of a new millennium, focusing on both the challenges and opportunities of an ancient art as it tries to adapt to the... -
Something Indecent: Poems Recommended by Eastern European Poets by Valzhyna Mort 9781597099783
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.31Something Indecent is intended as a kind of symposium on European poetry. Seven contemporary Eastern European poets-Adam Zagajewski, Vera Pavlova, Tomaz Salamun, Ales Steger, Nikola Madzirov,... -
Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis: Lyrical Representations of Photographs from the 19th Century to the Present by Andrew Miller 9781781381908
Booksplease Price: $154.45Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis is a detailed study of the ekphrasis of photography in poetry since the 19th century. Unlike other critical studies of ekphrasis, Miller's study concentrates solely on... -
This Number Does Not Exist by Mangalesh Dabral 9781942683124
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.28An attentive critique on contemporary reality-modernity, capitalism, industrialization-this first United States publication of Mangalesh Dabral, presented in bilingual English and Hindi, speaks for... -
IT WILL RETURN: Poems 9780810126787
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.61In ""It Will Return"", her most recent volume of poems, Julia Hartwig is in dialogue with other great artists - Keats, Rimbaud, Milosz, Beethoven, Ravel, Van Gogh - considering the implications of... -
American Odysseys: Writings by New Americans by Daniel Alarcon
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.56American Odysseys is an anthology of twenty-two novelists, poets, and short-story writers drawn from the shortlist for the 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature. Including... -
Stranger Shores by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995... -
A Singing Contest: Conventions of Sound in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney by Meg Tyler 9780415867221
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.66A formal analysis A Singing Contest comprises close readings of Seamus Heaney's poetry. Tyler argues that in an era of fractured poetry and politics, Seamus Heaney stands out: his impulse is towards... -
Come Closer and Listen: New Poems by Charles Simic 9780062908476
Booksplease Price: $16.89An insightful and haunting new collection from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic Irreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Closer and Listen is the latest work from one of our... -
Slight Exaggeration: An Essay by Adam Zagajewski 9780374537517
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $19.78For Adam Zagajewski-one of Poland's great poets-the project of writing, whether it be poetry or prose, is an occasion to advance what David Wojahn has characterized as his "restless and quizzical... -
Rain Inside by Ibrahim Nasrallah
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $15.23A Palestinian poet, Ibrahim Nasrallah is among the foremost poets of his generation. In this collection, Nasrallah describes the suffering of the Palestinians not through a personal lens, but through... -
Poetry & Responsibility by Neil Corcoran
RRP: $41.86Booksplease Price: $39.60This study by Neil Corcoran considers the kinds of responsibility which some exemplary modern lyric poetry takes on, or to which it makes itself subject - social, cultural, political, aesthetic and... -
Treason by Hedi Kaddour 9780300177756
Booksplease Price: $31.15Hedi Kaddour's poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic-of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, or human cruelty. With Treason, the... -
Poetry & Responsibility by Neil Corcoran 9781781380352
Booksplease Price: $154.45This study by Neil Corcoran considers the kinds of responsibility which some exemplary modern lyric poetry takes on, or to which it makes itself subject - social, cultural, political, aesthetic and... -
New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012 by Charles Simic 9780063437395
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62"It takes just one glimpse of Charles Simic's work to establish that he is a master, ruler of his own eccentric kingdom of jittery syntax and signature insight." -Los Angeles TimesFor over fifty... -
The Floating Bridge: Prose Poems by David Shumate
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $17.12The Floating Bridge, David Shumate's second collection of prose poems, transports its readers over the chasm between the mundane and the enchanted. We traverse one bridge and find ourselves... -
The Voices of Babyn Yar by Marianna Kiyankovska 9780674268760
RRP: $43.80Booksplease Price: $36.86"[A]n extraordinary work within the literary canon of the Holocaust." -Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary WorkWith The Voices of Babyn Yar-a collection of stirring poems... -
The Voices of Babyn Yar by Marianna Kiyankovska
RRP: $18.00Booksplease Price: $16.03With The Voices of Babyn Yar-a collection of stirring poems by Marianna Kiyanovska-the award-winning Ukrainian poet honors the victims of the Holocaust by writing their stories of horror, death, and... -
Contemporary East European Poetry: An Anthology by Emery George 9780195086362
RRP: $23.85Booksplease Price: $21.30Providing a unique window into a poetic tradition little known and little understood in the West, Contemporary East European Poetry features one hundred and thirty poets from ten countries, with...