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<<< 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 >>>     sort list by author | publication date The Pleasures of the Damned Poems, 1951-1993 Charles Bukowski In going through this comprehensive collection the reader is able to see past the dirty-old-man façade that has plagued Bukowski's writing and glimpse at moments of sincere compassion and prophetic epiphanies. His poetry is constantly morphing into... Pluriverse New and Selected Poems Ernesto Cardenal Poem of the Deep Song Federico Garcia Lorca The magic of Andalusia is crystallized in Federico Garcia Lorca's first major work, Poem of the Deep Song, written in 1921 when the poet was twenty-three years old, and published a decade later. In this group of poems, based on saetas, soleares, and... Poems and Songs Leonard Cohen A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-ongwriters in the world. In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved... Poems New and Collected Wislawa Szymborska All poets, according to Wislawa Szymborska, are in a perpetual dialogue with the phrase I don't know. "Each poem," she writes in her 1996 Nobel Lecture, "marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet... Poems of Andre Breton A Bilingual Anthology Andre Breton Andre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder of Surrealism and a major leader of the avante-garde movement in France following World War I. This exceptional volume brings together the most comprehensive selection of poems by Breton available in the... Poems of Arab Andalusia Cola Franzen These poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa'id, who wanted poems "whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose language is more beautiful than a fair face."... Poems of Fernando Pessoa Fernando Pessoa Fernando Pessoa is Portugal's most important contemporary poet. He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms: Albet Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, and Bernardo Soares. He wrote fine poetry under his own name as well, and... Poems of the Night A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text Jorge Luis Borges, Efrain Kristal, Suzanne Jill Levine An initial offering from a new series of thematically edited collections of Borges' poems & prose that is certain to bring English readers much deeper into the universe of the Head Librarian. The poems of this volume span Borges' lifetime and focus on... Poems Retrieved Frank O'Hara A reissue of the classic, essential companion to O'Hara's "Collected Poems," with a new foreword by Bill Berkson. Poet in New York A Bilingual Edition Federico García Lorca “The definitive version of Lorca’s masterpiece, in language that is as alive and molten today as was the original.”—John Ashbery Newly translated for the first time in ten years, Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York... Poetry and Commitment Adrienne Rich In the traditional of great literary manifestos, Norton is proud to present this powerful work by Adrienne Rich. With passion, critical questioning, and humor, Adrienne Rich suggests how poetry has actually been lived in the world, past and present... Poetry As Insurgent Art Lawrence Ferlinghetti After a lifetime, this (r)evolutionary little book is still a work-in-progress, the poet's ars poetica, to which at 88 he is constantly adding. From the groundbreaking (and bestselling) A Coney Island of the Mind in 1958 to the "personal epic" of... The Poetry of Kabbalah Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition This groundbreaking collection presents for the first time in English a substantial body of poetry that emerges directly from the sublime and often startling world of Jewish mysticism. <<< 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 >>>