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...

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

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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."

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

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Jacobsen, 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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Kingsolver, Barbara

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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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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2011

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Neruda, Pablo

Contents: First movement -- To search -- Returning -- I am grateful, violins ... -- It appears that a different ship ... -- When I decided ... -- I have four dogs to declare ... -- Some Argentinians sailed with us ... -- My name was Reyes ... -- Salud, we called out every day ... -- Today, how many hours ... -- I met the Mexican ... -- To find out, I called together my tribe ... -- Every day, Matilde --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 1988

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Summary: 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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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.

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

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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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2014

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García 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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John 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

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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"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2017

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Neruda, Pablo

Summary: Few writers are as integrally bound to a place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra. From his arrival there in the late '30s to his death in 1973, Isla Negra became a text that unraveled in a series of essential images that are fundamental to an understanding of his mature work.

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Publisher / Publication Date: White Pine Press 2004

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Ratushinskaya, Irina

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Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1987

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Valverde, 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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Summary: Parallel Russian and English texts.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bobbs-Merrill 1967

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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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Zephyr Press 2023

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Char, 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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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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1974

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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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023

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Homer

Summary: When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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