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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 37 Ink/Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 WALGarcía Lorca, Federico
Summary: Poems are in Spanish, and in English translation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 1998
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 GARBolaño, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 BOLSummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Language Association of America 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 ANTSummary: Mexican Poetry has flourished during the last thirty years, and this ambitious multi-lingual anthology surveys the vibrant and eclectic work of poets born after 1950. The poetry of this new generation reflects a wealth of backgrounds, regions, styles, and especially influences -- including traditional and inventive narrative, formalism, lyrics, suites, and experimental verse. This is also the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 REVValverde, Fernando
Summary: "In Fernando Valverde's América, "sorrow is ancient." Mournfully lyrical, politically sharp, with a sweeping view of American roots, dysfunctions, and ideals--as if from above, and yet also from within--this is a book that deconstructs the legacy of empire. From the Mississippi River to Fulton Avenue, from slavery to "lone wolf" shooters, Valverde grieves but does not wince away from all that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 VALPérez-Cortés, Alejandro
Summary: "Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed is Alejandro Pérez-Cortés's personal genesis of Colima, Mexico, published here in both English and Spanish. The tree is an element/character in the book that appears and disappears throughout. Some poems are set in an ancient pre-Hispanic Colima; others reflect the reality of a modern-day Colima, sadly stigmatized and eroded by violence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 PERHorace.
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."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 474.01 HORTranströmer, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRASimler, Isabelle
Summary: "Twenty-seven poems look inside the dwellings of animals like elf owls, cathedral termites, Sumatran orangutans, and foam-nest tree frogs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2024
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Summary: A bilingual collection of thirty-seven political and protest poems about the social conditions of America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 KINRatushinskaya, Irina
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 RATAdaf, Shimon
Summary: Cycle of poems composed after Adaf's sister's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alice James Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADABellessi, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arte Público Press 1996
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Summary: Gives thanks in the acknowledgment to his brother, Rudolph Saenz for his extensive assistance with the Spanish language translations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Xlibris 2018
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SAEPizarnik, Alejandra
Summary: Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 1972 unearths this extraordinary poet for English readers in a bilingual edition that spans the heights of Pizarnik s oeuvre. In her brief life, Pizarnik produced an astonishingly powerful body of work. In her own words, she was drawn to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 PIZSzymborska, Wisława.
Summary: "In this collection of contemplative, witty, and always surprising poems, Wislawa Szymborska writes with verve about everything from love unremembered to keys mislaid in the grass, from small-scale naughtiness to the happiness of skating on thin ice, from the district firemen's ball to the cosmos."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.85 SZYVázquez Paz, Johanny
Summary: A regular heartbeat is composed of the two sounds made when the blood flows through the organ as the valves contract. To listen to its rhythm through a stethoscope is to appreciate the slight distinction between two movements that are unequivocally connected - one beat calls, the other responds. Similarly, the two sections of Johanny Vázquez Paz's stunning book of poems offer the reader...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashinc Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 VAZGuillén, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 1999
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Summary: "A collection of poetry and prose by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Patty Crane"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRANeruda, Pablo
Summary: Esta edición bilingüe español-inglés es la primera selección completamente ilustrada del «Libro de las Preguntas». Compuesto por 70 preguntas de las 320 originales, estos poemas, cuidadosamente entretejidos por tema e ilustraciones a toda página, nos invitan a maravillarnos con el mundo natural y los innumerables misterios que contiene. «El Libro de las Preguntas», escrito por el querido poeta...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NERChar, René
Summary: "The Selected Poems of René Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poet's wide stylistic and philosophical range, from aphorism to dramatic lyricism. In making their selections, the editors have chosen the voices of seventeen poets and translators (Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Cid Corman, Eugene Jolas, W.S. Merwin, William Carlos Williams, and James Wright, to name a few),...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 CHAJacobsen, Rolf.
Summary: An early champion of modernism, Jacobsen published a body of work that earned him international recognition and established him as one of Europe's great poets. This bilingual collection spans Jacobsen's fifty-year career and includes, for the first time in English, his final poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.82 JACJohn of the Cross
Summary: "The 16th-century friar known as St. John is a preeminent Spanish literary figure as well as one of the world's great mystical poets. This new edition of his works of spiritual guidance modernizes the original text while retaining its rhetorical grandeur. Introduction, new English translation, and notes by Stanley Appelbaum." -- Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Pub. 2007