Szymborska, 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 SZYHò̂, Xuân Hương.
Summary: Hò̂ Xuân Hương, whose name means Spring Essence, was an eighteenth-century concubine who wrote subtly risque poems that used double entendre and sexual innuendo as a vehicle for social, religious, and political commentary. Her attacks on male authority were shocking and risky, but she and her work survived because of her exquisite cleverness and skill at poetry. Translated from the older...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.9 HOSummary: An anthology of American poems, arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.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