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Bellessi, Diana

Summary: "Fascinating collaboration between Diana Bellessi (Argentina) and Ursula K. Le Guin (US), each of whom translates a collection of poems by the other. The two poets worked in close consultation with each other, especially in the case of Le Guin, whose knowledge of Spanish is admittedly minimal. Bilingual format except for authors' introductions which are printed without translation"--Handbook of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arte Público Press 1996

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Olivarez, José

Summary: "A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love-self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural-is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on. Written in English and combined with a Spanish translation by poet David Ruano, Promises of Gold explores many forms of love and how "a promise made isn't always a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 OLI

Summary: "Women poets in nineteenth-century France made important contributions to major stylistic innovations - from the birth of elegiac Romanticism to the inauguration of free verse - and many were prominent in their lifetime. Yet only a few are known today, and nearly all have been unavailable in English translation. Of the fourteen poets of this anthology - the third bilingual volume in the MLA...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Language Association of America 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 ANT

Horace.

Summary: A new bilingual translation of the works of a Roman poet, with Latin and English versions on facing pages. In Discipline, one reads, "Sweet and proper it is to die for your country / But Death would just as soon come after him / Who runs away."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 474.01 HOR

Tranströmer, Tomas

Summary: "Tomas Tranströmer--the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature--can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: his verse is drawn again and again to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRA

Foster, John L. (John Lawrence)

Contents: Some rather lively lines (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)--Songs inscribed on an earthen vessel (Cairo ostracon 25218)--Songs of the garden (Papyrus Harris 500)--Songs of great heart's ease (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)--Songs from a faded papyrus (Papyrus Harris 500)--Stanzaic love song (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)--Songs of the orchard (Papyrus Turin 1966)--Songs of the birdcatcher's daughter (Papyrus...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1974

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 493.1 FOS

Baudelaire, Charles

Summary: A bilingual edition of selected poems of a 19th century French master. In "The cat," one reads in this English version: "Come, cat of mine, perch on my loving breast; / Come, beauty, lie in gentle guise: / Pull in your claws, and let me plunge, possessed, / Into your agate-metal eyes."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 BAU

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Summary: "The definitive bilingual version of Rilke's New Poems--faithful to the original German, with insightful commentary on every poem. Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the world's best-selling poets, and New Poems contains many of his most iconic pieces. Throughout, Rilke he is obsessed with shapes and different layers of physical containment--from an image held in a panther's eye to a cathedral...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RIL

Summary: "The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.7 WOR

García Lorca, Federico

Summary: Poems are in Spanish, and in English translation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 1998

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 GAR

Neruda, Pablo

Summary: "Pablo Neruda's debut, never before published in its entirety in English, is the latest volume in Copper Canyon's best-selling series"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NER

Ratushinskaya, Irina

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1987

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 RAT

Summary: Parallel Russian and English texts.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bobbs-Merrill 1967

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 MOD

Bejerano, Maya

Summary: A Winding Line gathers poems from the last decade by three of Israel’s most original and insightful poets, all of whom are women. Biblical and mythological allusions, political concerns, landscapes, and personal experiences figure throughout, while each poet brings her unique voice to the pages. Maya Bejerano’s complex poems often speak to human connection. Sharron Hass brings an interest in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zephyr Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 BEJ

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.5511 JAL

Adaf, Shimon

Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADA

Grass, Günter

Summary: A bilingual poetry collection. In Nursery Rhyme, he writes: "Who laughs here, who has laughed? / Here we have ceased to laugh. / To laugh here is now treason / The laugher has a reason."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 GRA

Bolaño, Roberto

Summary: Collects some of the Chilean poet's earliest verse, including love poems, political pieces, and works that highlight such themes as the search for poetry, detectives, and the interrelationship of life, death, and the weather.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 BOL

Walker, Alice

Summary: "Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple--"an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle)--crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 37 Ink/Atria Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 WAL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 WAL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WAL

Barghūthī, Tamīm

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc. 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 892.7 BAR

Guillén, Jorge

Summary: Jorge Guillen, one of the great poets of the Generation of '27, went into voluntary exile during the Spanish Civil War, and spent many years in the U.S. and in Latin America. This far ranging selection of poems provides fresh insights into our shared culture.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 GUI

Homer.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Parmenides Audio 2006

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 HOM

Montale, Eugenio

Summary: An English-language translation of works by the late Nobel Prize winner offers insight into his role in influencing Italian poetry and international Modernism, as well as his views on such topics as modernity, fascism, and war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 MON

Ovid

Summary: Ovid's poem brings together an array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best known myths and legends of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2008

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: 871.01 OVI

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