Summary: "In Spain in the 1840s, a group of women had begun to publish poetry. Their verse - Romantic, predominantly lyric, and often linked to liberal reform - was novel and controversial because few women had ventured into print. The poets collected in this anthology asserted in different ways their imagination and literary voice." "Anna-Marie Aldaz offers a discussion of Spanish versification as well...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Language Association of America 2009

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Neruda, Pablo

Summary: This superb bilingual anthology highlights the posthumous legacy of Pablo Neruda, the great Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, who left a vast body of unpublished work when he died in 1973. Ben Belitt, a distinguished poet in his own right, is widely regarded as the leading translator of Neruda into English. Here he has given us a Neruda as fecund and engaged as ever, ceaselessly spinning the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1988

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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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Language Association of America 2008

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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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Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2000

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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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Summary: Parallel Russian and English texts.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bobbs-Merrill 1967

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Summary: A bilingual anthology of short stories that reflect the cultural diversity of the Spanish-speaking world.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2013

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Adaf, 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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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."

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1998

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Summary: "The Therīgāthā is one of the oldest surviving literatures by women, composed more than two millennia ago and originally collected as part of the Pali canon of Buddhist scripture. These poems were written by some of the first Buddhist women - therīs - honored for their religious achievements. Through imaginative verses about truth and freedom, the women recount their lives before ordination and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2021

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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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Neruda, Pablo

Summary: "The first book to collect all of Pablo Neruda's odes, in any language; a bilingual edition"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013

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Rilke, Rainer Maria

Summary: Over the last fifteen years, in his two volumes of New Poems as well as in The Book of Images and Uncollected Poems, Edward Snow has emerged as one of Rainer Maria Rilke's most able English-language interpreters. In his translations, Snow adheres faithfully to the intent of Rilke's German while constructing nuanced, colloquial poems in English.

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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2000

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Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Summary: "THe poetry of Moulana Jalaluddin Rumi is without question some of the most refined mystical poetry ever created, and his work has been compared in stature to that of Shakespeare and Dante. THanks to Shahram Shiva's current transliteration, English-speaking lovers of Rumi's poetry will now have the opportunity to 'read' his verse aloud, observing the rhythm, the repetition, and the rhyme that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hohm Press 1995

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Sappho.

Summary: "A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson. Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 B.C. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed, none of the music is extant and only one poem has survived complete. All the rest are fragments. In If...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002

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Natsume, Sōseki

Summary: "Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of mysterious encounters with Nami, the lovely young daughter of the establishment. Nami, or 'beauty, ' is the center of this elegant novel, the still point around which the artist moves and the enigmatic subject of Soseki's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008

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Contents: Der Prokurator = The attorney / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Unverhofftes Wiedersehen = An unexpected reunion / Johann Peter Hebel -- Das Erdbeben in Chili = The earthquake in Chile / Heinrich von Kleist -- Don Juan / Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann -- Bergkristall = Rock crystal / Adalbert Stifter -- Das Tanzlegendchen = The little legend of the dance / Gottfried Keller -- Eine Frau in meinen...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1984

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Summary: "This new translation of The Upanishads is at once delightfully simple and rigorously learned, providing today's readers with an accurate, accessible rendering of the core work of ancient Indian philosophy. The Upanishads are often considered the most important literature from ancient India. Yet many academic translators fail to capture the work's philosophical and spiritual subtlety, while...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) 2015

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Matios, Maria

Summary: "The best contemporary Ukrainian novel written since Ukrainian Independence in 1991. It reveals a family saga that is much more dynamic than classical sagas and at the same time is much more touching and engaging. It is an emotional history of Ukraine with a very well researched and vivid historical background that gives the reader the opportunity to understand not only the characters and their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Spuyten Duyvil 2019

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Lispector, Clarice

Summary: "One of the most phenomenally acclaimed and successful books of recent years is now available as a paperback--with three just-discovered stories. Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Books 2018

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Summary: Overview: Offering insight into the arts of Great Lakes Native nations, this collection of stories, songs, poetry, speeches, autobiographies, and fiction, spans the centuries from deep past to the present. Elders, war chiefs, religious leaders, and contemporary artists share stories of the creation, stars, animals, heroes, and monsters, along with narratives of hunting, fishing, food-gathering,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ladyslipper 2011

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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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Echenoz, Jean.

Summary: The Queen’s Caprice—seven new stories presented in English for the first time—reveals Echenoz at the height of his talents. The author takes us on a journey across radically different places and landscapes, giving free rein to a “terrific sense of humor tinged with existential mischief” (L’Express). The title story explores a tiny corner of the French countryside; “Nelson” offers a brilliant...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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