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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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 ANT

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 ANT

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highlights the posthumous legacy of Pablo Neruda, the great Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, who left a vast body of unpublished work when he died in 1973.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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NER

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RIL

Neruda, Pablo

Summary: Poems explore the depths of the distinguished Chilean writer's love for his wife.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 1986

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NER

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NER

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRA

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 SPA

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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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 GAR

Paz, Octavio

Summary: ""The growth of the work of Octavio Paz," writes Muriel Rukeyser in her preface to this bilingual selection of the Mexican poet's Early Poems, "has made clear to an audience in many languages what was evident from the beginning ... he is a great poet, a world-poet whom we need. The poems here speak--as does all his work since--deeply, erotically, with grave and passionate involvement." In this,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 1973

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 PAZ

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NER

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 REV

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 BAU

Summary: "This collection offers a rich sampling of significant Mexican short stories published from 1843 to 1918. Nine different tales range from the realism of López Portillo's 'Reloj sin dueño' and the modernismo saturating Gutiérrez Nájera's 'La mañana de San Juan' to the historical accuracy of Riva Palacio's 'Las mulas de Su Excelencia' and the vivid romanticism of 'Amor secreto' by Manual Payno,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2008

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC MEX
Call number: 863.0108 MEX

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 QUA

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 Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 WAL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WAL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 WAL

Summary: Parallel Russian and English texts.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bobbs-Merrill 1967

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 MOD

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 BOL

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC GRE

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.31 LAN

Grass, Günter

Summary: A bilingual poetry collection. In Nursery Rhyme, he writes: "Who laughs here, who has laughed? / Here we have ceased to laugh. / To laugh here is now treason / The laugher has a reason."

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 GRA

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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 RES

Bellessi, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 BEL

Saenz, Gil

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 Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 SAE

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SAE

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