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Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Poems Hermann Hesse; Selected, translated, and with an introduction by James Wright Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks 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...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Poet in New York A Bilingual Edition Federico García Lorca; Edited and with an Introduction by Christopher Maurer; Translated by Greg Simon and Steven F. White Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Written while Federico García Lorca was a student at Columbia University in 1929-30, Poet in New York is one of the most important books Lorca produced,...

Trade Paperback : $21.00 Buy	The Poetry of Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda; Edited and with an Introduction by Ilan Stavans Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Awarded Chile's Presidential Medal A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book "The greatest poet of the twentieth century—in any language."—Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Poetry of Petrarch Petrarch; Translated by David Young Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks "David Young's version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West's crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after."—Harold Bloom

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The Poetry of Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke; Translated and Edited by Edward Snow; Introduction by Adam Zagajewski North Point Press

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“Edward Snow is doing important work. Robert Lowell once wrote that it was hard to imagine Rilke first written in English, that the poems were sealed in German. Snow is unsealing them.”—Robert Phillips, Houston Chronicle

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Radiant Lyre Essays on Lyric Poetry Edited by David Baker and Ann Townsend Graywolf Press Paper An essential collection of essays by important contemporary poets about the forms and rhetorical strategies of lyric poetry We are delighted when we...

Bilingual Edition Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Rest of the Voyage Poems Bernard Noël; Translated from the French by Eléna Rivera; Selected and with an introduction by Susan Stewart Graywolf Press Paper Winner of the Robert Fagles Prize for contemporary poetry in translation Eléna Rivera’s translation of Bernard Noël’s The Rest of the Voyage is at once...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Road-side Dog Czeslaw Milosz; Translated by the Author and Robert Hass Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks "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...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	The Scattered Papers of Penelope New and Selected Poems Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke; Edited by Karen Van Dyck Graywolf Press Paper A career-spanning collection by one of greece’s most loved and lyrical contemporary poets, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke I wasn’t weaving, I wasn’t knitting...

Bilingual Edition Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	Selected Poems Giuseppe Ungaretti; Translated, Annotated, and with an Introduction by Andrew Frisardi Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks This "splendidly fresh and definitive" volume (The Washington Post) offers a major new translation of one of Italy's greatest modern poets.

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Selected Verse

Revised Bilingual Edition

Federico García Lorca; Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Christopher Maurer Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Now in a Newly Revised Edition

"Through the sheer power of [Lorca's] imaginative genius, in [these] lucid translations of his poems that are as intelligent as they are intuitive, we witness how the poet . . . expanded the scope of lyric poetry [and] entirely redefined the elegy."—Rafael Campo, The Washington Post

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	She Says Bilingual Edition Vénus Khoury-Ghata; Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker Graywolf Press Paper Award-winning American poet Marilyn Hacker offers the brilliance of Lebanese poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata in an exquisite translation She says the earth...

Bilingual Edition Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Sonnets to Orpheus Rainer Maria Rilke; Translated by Edward Snow North Point Press "Snow has gradually been building a reputation as Rilke's nest contemporary translator in English . . . [His] work stands the highest test that can be put to any translation: it would be a worthy poetic achievement even without the original to prop it up."—Brian Philips, The New Republic

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Tales from Ovid

24 Passages from the Metamorphoses

Ted Hughes Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

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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ALA Notable Books - Winner - Poetry
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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The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables

Robert Henryson; Translated by Seamus Heaney Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

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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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	To Urania Poems Joseph Brodsky Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Combining two books of verse that were first published in his native Russian, To Urania was Brodsky's third volume to appear in English. Published in 1988, the...

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	Twentieth-Century German Poetry An Anthology Edited by Michael Hofmann Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks "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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Uncollected Poems

Bilingual Edition

Rainer Maria Rilke; Translated by Edward Snow North Point Press

Between the New Poems of 1907 and 1908 and his death in 1926, Rainer Maria Rilke published only two major volumes of poetry--the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets...

PEN Literary Award - Winner - Poetry in Translation

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Unseen Hand Poems Adam Zagajewski; Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks A brilliant new collection from a master world poet One of the most gifted poets of our time, Adam Zagajewski is a contemporary classic. Few writers in...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Vanishing Points Poems Valerio Magrelli; Translated from the Italian by Jamie McKendrick Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks 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...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	A Wake for the Living Poems (Bilingual Edition) Radmila Lazic; Translated from the Serbian by Charles Simic Graywolf Press Paper "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."—Charles Simic, from his Introduction

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Without an Alphabet, Without a Face Selected Poems Saadi Youssef; Translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa Graywolf Press Paper This Iraq will reach the ends of the graveyard. It will bury its sons in open country generation after generation, and it will forgive its despot... It...

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Without End

New and Selected Poems

Adam Zagajewski; Translated by Clare Cavanagh and Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C. K. Williams Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Zagajewski's poems pull us from whatever routine threatens to dull our senses, from whatever might lull us into mere existence. This is an astonishing book."—Philip Boehm, The New York Times Book Review

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National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee - Poetry

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