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Hymns And Fragments

by Friedrich Hölderlin

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 The description for this book, Hymns and Fragments, will be forthcoming.
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Ritsos In Parentheses

by Yannis Ritsos

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 Perhaps Greece's most important poet, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and Seferis in the dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life. The three volumes of Ritsos's poetry translated here--Parentheses, 1946-47, Parentheses, 1950-61, and The Distant, 1975--represent a thirty year poetic journey an
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In Hora Mortis / Under The Iron Of The Moon - Poems

by Thomas Bernhard

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 Bringing together Thomas Bernhard's second and third books of poetry, this collection contains short, untitled lyrics presenting his early explorations of themes that would continue to preoccupy him in his novels, plays, and other writings - especially his intense ambivalence toward the land and people of Austria and their then-recent Nazi past.
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C. P. Cavafy - Collected Poems, Revised Edition

by Konstandinos Kavafis

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 The acclaimed translation of the most important modern Greek poet
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A Kiss For The Absolute - Selected Poems Of Shuzo Takiguchi

by Shuzo Takiguchi

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 The first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English
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Child Is Not A Knife - Selected Poems Of Göran Sonnevi

by Goran Sonnevi

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 Göran Sonnevi is one of Sweden''s most celebrated, respected, and prolific poets. For this first book-length selection of Sonnevi to appear in English, Rika Lesser has chosen works written between 1971 and 1989--although most of the poems come from the last decade and from Sonnevi''s last three books, which form part of the single oändlig [unending/infinite/interminable] poem that he continues to write from book to book. Of Lesser''s introduction to the work, Richard Howard writes, "Lesser''s wonderful prose texts at the outset provide not only an ingress into complex and baffling matter but one of the most determined statements of the translator''s text since Walter Benjamin." From "Åby, Öland; 1982" We are here in the ultimate lives of our bodies negations of the ultimate negation We are complete parts of the world We rise up out of infinity like the limestone flats from the sea Like the stars We are denials of infinity One day we shall reach all the way there
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Brief Homage To Pluto And Other Poems

by Fabio Pusterla

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 Award-winning new translations of a major contemporary Italian poet Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems collects forty-five poems by Fabio Pusterla, one of the most distinguished Italian-language poets writing today. Born in Switzerland and resident in Italy, Pusterla engages the pressing moral concerns of his age and excavates the hidden realities of our concrete world. These are poems of disquieting Alpine landscapes and rift zones, filled with curious fauna, lanced with troubling memories, built "from the bottom, from the margins, from outside" the mainstream. Pusterla is the author of eight critically acclaimed books of poetry and has received several major literary prizes. Selected and translated by Will Schutt, himself an award-winning poet, this volume draws from Pusterla’s six most recent collections to capture a wide range of the poet’s work. With English translations and Italian originals on facing pages, Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems deftly introduces one of Europe’s most ambitious, imaginative, and humane poets to English-speaking readers.
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The Translator Of Desires - Poems

by Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi

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 "A complete facing-page translation of the Tarjuman, which consists of sixty-one poems composed between 1202 and 1215 CE and published in 1215 at the earliest. The first word of the title can refer to a translator, interpreter, or biographer, on the one hand, and to a translation, interpretation, or biography on the other"--
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Cantigas - Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poems

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 A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and Spain The rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros, or songbooks, in the nineteenth century. These compendiums revealed close to 1,700 songs, or cantigas, composed by around 150 troubadours from Galicia, Portugal, and Castile in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. In Cantigas, award-winning translator Richard Zenith presents a delightful selection of 124 of these poems in English versions that preserve the musical quality of the originals, which are featured on facing pages. By turns romantic, spiritual, ironic, misogynist, and feminist, these lyrics paint a vibrant picture of their time and place, surprising us with attitudes and behaviors that are both alien and familiar. The book includes the three major kinds of cantigas. While cantigas de amor (love poems in the voice of men) were largely inspired by the troubadour poetry of southern France, cantigas de amigo (love poems voiced by women) derived from a unique native oral tradition in which the narrator pines after her beloved, sings his praises, or mocks him. In turn, cantigas de escárnio are satiric, and sometimes outrageously obscene, lyrics whose targets include aristocrats, corrupt clergy, promiscuous women, and homosexuals. Complete with an illuminating introduction on the history of the cantigas, their poetic characteristics, and the men who composed and performed them, this engaging volume is filled with exuberant and unexpected poems.
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Translator Of Desires - Poems

by Muhyiddin Ibn ?Arabi

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 "A complete facing-page translation of the Tarjuman, which consists of sixty-one poems composed between 1202 and 1215 CE and published in 1215 at the earliest. The first word of the title can refer to a translator, interpreter, or biographer, on the one hand, and to a translation, interpretation, or biography on the other"--
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Late Poems Of Meng Chiao

by Meng Chiao

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 Late in life, Meng Chiao (A.D. 751--814) developed an experimental poetry of virtuosic beauty, a poetry that anticipated landmark developments in the modern Western tradition by a millennium. With the T''ang Dynasty crumbling, Meng''s later work employed surrealist and symbolist techniques as it turned to a deep introspection. This is truly major work-- work that may be the most radical in the Chinese tradition. And though written more than a thousand years ago, it is remarkably fresh and contemporary. But, in spite of Meng''s significance, this is the first volume of his poetry to appear in English. Until the age of forty, Meng Chiao lived as a poet-recluse associated with Ch''an (Zen) poet-monks in south China. He then embarked on a rather unsuccessful career as a government official. Throughout this time, his poetry was decidedly mediocre, conventional verse inevitably undone by his penchant for the strange and surprising. After his retirement, Meng developed the innovative poetry translated in this book. His late work is singular not only for its bleak introspection and "avant-garde" methods, but also for its dimensions: in a tradition typified by the short lyric poem, this work is made up entirely of large poetic sequences.
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Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts - Seventy Poems By Wislawa Szymborska - Bilingual Edition

by Wislawa Szymborska

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 From Nobel Prize-winning poet Wisawa Szymborska, a dazzling bilingual collection of verse that reveals her signature themes and techniques Sounds, Feelings, and Thoughts is a superb introduction to the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Wisawa Szymborska (1923-2012), who is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets since World War II. Carefully selected and skillfully translated by Magnus Krynski and Robert Maguire, this book presents a broad and representative selection of Szymborska’s poetry and features the original Polish poems on pages facing the English translations. The book demonstrates the hallmarks of Szymborska’s verse—high seriousness, delightful inventiveness, a prodigal imagination, and enormous technical skill. Writing of the diversity, plenitude, and richness of the world, she takes delight in observing and naming its phenomena, looking on with wonder, astonishment, and amusement.
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C. P. Cavafy - Collected Poems, Revised Edition

by Konstandinos Kavafis

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 The acclaimed translation of the most important modern Greek poet
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After Callimachus - Poems

by Stephanie Burt

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 Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by later Romans and Greeks, his funny, sexy, generous, thoughtful, learned, sometimes elaborate, and always articulate lyric poems, hymns, epigra
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Selected Poems Of Giovanni Pascoli

by Giovanni Pascoli

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 The most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetryGiovanni Pascoli (1855-1912)-the founder of modern Italian poetry and one of Italy's most beloved poets-has been compared to Robert Frost for his evocation of natural speech, his bucolic settings, and the way he bridges poetic tradition and the beginnings of mod
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Final Matters - Selected Poems, 2004-2010

by Szilard Borbely

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 An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetrySzilard Borbely, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from post-Communist Hungary, received numerous literary awards in his native country. In this volume, acclaimed translator Ottilie Mulzet reveals the ful
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Nothing Is Lost - Selected Poems

by Edvard Kocbek

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 A comprehensive English-language collection of verse by the most celebrated Slovenian poet of modern times and one of Europe's most notable postwar poets, Edvard Kocbek (1904-1981). The selections introduce the reader to the Kocbek's long and distinguished career.
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Night Journey

by Maria Negroni

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 Takes us on a voyage to mysterious lands and seas, into the psyche, and to the heart of the poem itself. This book reflects a mastery of a traditional form while expressing a modern condition: the multicultural, multifaceted individual, ever in motion.
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Leopardi - Selected Poems

by Giacomo Leopardi

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 Features translations of poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798 - 1837) that render into modern English verse - the work of a writer who is regarded as one of the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary tradition.
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Complete Odes And Satires Of Horace

by Horace

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 Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. Born the son of a freed slave in southern rural Italy, he rose to become one of the most celebrated poets in Rome. This book spells out how the poet expresses values and traditions that remain unchanged in the deepest strata of Italian character two thousand years later.
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Brocade River Poems - Selected Works Of The Tang Dynasty Courtesan

by Xue Tao

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 Xue Tao (A.D. 768-831) was well known as a poet in an age when all men of learning were poets--and almost all women were illiterate. As an entertainer and official government hostess, she met, and impressed, many of the most talented and powerful figures of her day. As a maker of beautiful paper and a Taoist churchwoman, she maintained a life of independence and aesthetic sensibility. As a writer, she crrated a body of work that is by turns deeply moving, amusing, and thought-provoking. Drawing knowledgeably on a rich literary tradition, she created images that here live again for the contemporary reader of English. This bilingual edition contains about two-thirds of Xue Tao''s extant poems. The translations are based on accurate readings of the originals and extensive research in both Chinese and Japanese materials. The notes at the end of the book explain allusions and place the poems in the context of medieval Chinese culture and its great literary heritage, while the opening essay introduces Xue Tao''s work and describes her unusual life history.
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Survivors And Other Poems

by Tadeusz Rozewicz

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 The description for this book, The Survivors and Other Poems, will be forthcoming.
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Ritsos In Parentheses

by Yannis Ritsos

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 Perhaps Greece's most important poet, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and Seferis in the dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life. The three volumes of Ritsos's poetry translated here--Parentheses, 1946-47, Parentheses, 1950-61, and The Distant, 1975--represent a thirty year poetic journey an
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Puerilities - Erotic Epigrams Of The Greek Anthology

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 Elegiac lyrics celebrating the love of boys, which the translator terms Puerilities, comprise most of the twelfth book of "The Greek Anthology". This is a translation of "Musa Puerilis" - which is a collection of short poems by great and lesser-known Greek poets, spanning hundreds of years, from ancient times to the late Christian era.
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