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Diary of One Who Vanished
A Song Cycle by Leos Janacek of Poems by Ozef Kalda
Seamus Heaney; A Song Cycle by Leos Janacek of Poems by Ozef Kalda
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A Cycle of Love Songs Translated by the Nobel Laureate "Dappled woodland light, Spring well chill and bright, Eyes like stars at night, Open knees so...
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The Cure at Troy
A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
Seamus Heaney
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The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero,...
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The Burial at Thebes
A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
Seamus Heaney
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"[Heaney has] composed a poem full of brilliant strokes . . . He varies his rhythms ingeniously."—
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The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables
Robert Henryson; Translated by Seamus Heaney
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The greatest of the late medieval Scots makars, Robert Henryson was influenced by their vision of the frailty and pathos of human life, and by the inherited...
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Poems
Hermann Hesse; Selected, translated, and with an introduction by James Wright
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Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best...
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Classical Chinese Poetry
An Anthology
Translated and Edited by David Hinton
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"David Hinton has translated the poetry of Wang Wei, Lao Tzu, Meng Chiao, and a host of other major classical Chinese poets . . . [
Classical Chinese Poetry
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Vanessa E. Jones,
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Twentieth-Century German Poetry
An Anthology
Edited by Michael Hofmann
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"Michael Hofmann has a skeptical intelligence, an observant eye, a compulsion to speak the unspeakable, and the useful wariness of the displaced person."—
Helen Vendler,
The New York Review of Books
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The Oresteia of Aeschylus
A New Translation by Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes
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"Hughes's rendering of this appalling story has the hurtling momentum one assumes the playwright's original Greek had for his Athenian audience . . . To release the play's staggering power Hughes has transformed some thoughtful scholarly commentary into raw horror and agonizing ethical dilemma . . . Ferociously physical . . . like the best of Hughes's own poems"—
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Tales from Ovid
24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
Ted Hughes
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A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately...
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Whitbread Book Award - Winner - This book was a winner in both Book of the Year and the Poetry categories. This award was renamed the Costa Book Award in 2006.
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She Says
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Vénus Khoury-Ghata; Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker
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Award-winning American poet Marilyn Hacker offers the brilliance of Lebanese poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata in an exquisite translation She says the earth...
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Nettles
Poems
Vénus Khoury-Ghata; Translated by Marilyn Hacker
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The new collection by the Lebanese poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata, the author of She Says, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award it could only...
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A Wake for the Living
Poems (Bilingual Edition)
Radmila Lazic; Translated from the Serbian by Charles Simic
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"How do we find words to say what we only feel and do not recognize until someone else has said it? As we see from Lazic’s poetry, that may be one of the noblest roles of the poet."—
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Canti
Poems / A Bilingual Edition
Giacomo Leopardi; Translated from the Italian and annotated by Jonathan Galassi
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A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Giacomo Leopardi is Italy’s greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a...
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All Day Permanent Red
The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten
Christopher Logue
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"The mounting pressure of a city siege, two politician-generals invoking gods, the amount of dust in the Middle East—this version of the first skirmishes in the
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No Shelter
The Selected Poems of Pura López-Colomé
Pura López-Colomé; Translated by Forrest Gander
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A Lannan Translation Selection Beautifully translated by the award-winning American poet Forrest Gander, the work of highly esteemed Mexican poet Pura...
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Vanishing Points
Poems
Valerio Magrelli; Translated from the Italian by Jamie McKendrick
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The renowned Italian poet Valerio Magrelli has forged a unique approach for exploring the subtleties of language, a poetry of perception that takes the measure...
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Milosz's ABC's
Czeslaw Milosz; Translated by Madeline G. Levine
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"It is a source of wonderment and pleasure that at the age of 89, Czeslaw Milosz, arguably the greatest living poet, continues to publish exploratory works of self-definition and commemoration.
Milosz's ABC's
, expertly translated from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine, remakes the relatively recent Polish genre of the ABC book—a kind of subgenre of memoir—so that it becomes a flexible hybrid form, a probing and quirky reference book."—
Edward Hirsch,
The New York Times Book Review
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Road-side Dog
Czeslaw Milosz; Translated by the Author and Robert Hass
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"I went on a journey in order to acquaint myself with my province, in a two-horse wagon with a lot of fodder and a tin bucket rattling in the back. The bucket...
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Legends of Modernity
Essays and Letters from Occupied Poland, 1942-1943
Czeslaw Milosz; Translated from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine; Introduction by Jaroslaw Anders
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"These early reflections . . . , written in the midst of unspeakable horror, form a remarkable testament to an uncaptive mind consecrated to living in truth."—
Jacob Heilbrunn,
The New York Times Book Review
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Look There
Selected Poems
Agi Mishol Translated from the Hebrew by Lisa Katz
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The first publication in the United States of celebrated contemporary Israeli poet Agi Mishol, winner of the Yehuda Amichai Poetry Prize You are only twenty...
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Extravagaria
Pablo Neruda; Translated from the Spanish by Alastair Reid
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Extravagaria marks an important stage in Neruda's progress as a poet. The book was written just after he had returned to Chile after many wanderings and moved...
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Memoirs
Pablo Neruda; Translated by Hardie St. Martin
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The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda, the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of the Nobel Prize The south of Chile was a...
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Fully Empowered
Pablo Neruda; Translated and Introduction by Alastair Reid
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"Gratifyingly clear, even luminous. It is a full book, rich in experience, alternately groping and sweeping, and a joy to read."--
G. M. Ortiz,
The New Republic
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The Heights of Macchu Picchu
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Pablo Neruda; Preface by Robert Pring-Mill; Translated by Nathaniel Tarn
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The Heights of Macchu Picchu is the finest and most famous of Neruda's longer poems and provides the key to his earlier work. It was inspired by his journey to...
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