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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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: "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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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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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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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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. 2008

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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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Resnick, Seymour.

Contents: Poem of the Cid / Anonymous -- Poema del Cid / Anonymous -- The book of good love / Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita -- El libro de buen amor / Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita -- Mountain song of La Finojosa / Marquis de Santillana -- Serranilla de la Finojosa / Marquis de Santillana -- Ode on the death of his father / Jorge Manrique -- Coplas por la muerte de su padre / Jorge Manrique -- Welcome,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvey House 1962

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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: 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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Aidt, Naja Marie

Summary: "In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's son Carl died at twenty-five years old in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You, Give It Back describes the first year after that devastating phone call, until the shock slowly wears off. It is at once asober account of life after losing a child--showing how grief transforms your relationship to reality, your loved ones, and time--and a book...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2019

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Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

Summary: A collection of tales including "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "The Little Match girl," "Thumbelina," "The Elfin Hill," "Little Ida's Flower," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Wild Swans," and "The Emperor's New Clothes."

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston 1981

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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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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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Pérez-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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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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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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Quasimodo, Salvatore

Summary: Born in Sicily and trained as an engineer, Quasimodo was brought into Italian literary circles by his brother-in-law Elio Vittorini, who drew him to Florence and introduced him to Umberto Saba, Eugenio Montale, and other contributors to the modernist journal Solaria. In the late 1930s, Quasimodo gave up engineering for journalism and literature, becoming editor in chief of the weekly Il Tempo...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy 1960

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Summary: "These eleven tales are by four outstanding authors whose work brought new life to Spanish literature. Published between 1870 and 1900, they include 'El Hechicero,' by Juan Valera, an allegorical retelling of an Andalusian legend; Pedro Antonio de Alarcon's tale of bandits, 'La buenaventura,' and his 'La Comendadora,' inspired by an incident in a Granada convent; three tales by Leopoldo Alas...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2006

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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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Summary: Though the Netherlands has been the site of vigorous literary activity since at least the poets of the Beweging van Vijftig (Movement of the Fifties), the status of Dutch as a "minor" language spoken by only fifteen million people has kept its rich poetry more or less a secret. This volume--featuring J. M. Coetzee's finely wrought English translations side-by-side with the originals--brings the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2004

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