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Adaf, Shimon Translations into English American poetry Bereavement Poetry Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Italian poetry Love poetry, Egyptian Translations into English Love songs Egypt Texts Materiales bilingües en español Inglés Poes?a Walker, Alice 1944- Translations into SpanishFilter By Series
Hebrew classicsHorace.
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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 474.01 HORNeruda, 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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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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NERSummary: 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 REVJacobsen, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.82 JACKingsolver, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 KINTranströmer, 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 TRAMontale, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 MONRilke, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RILChar, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 CHAFoster, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 493.1 FOSOlivarez, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 OLIBolaño, 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 BOLHomer
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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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 WALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 WALAdaf, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ADAGrass, 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 GRAMiriam, Rivka.
Summary: "A collection of selected poems that span [the author's] career, and display her deep emotional connection to Jewish tradition, mysticism, and the Land of Israel"--Publisher's website
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Publisher / Publication Date: Toby Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 MIRMontale, Eugenio
Summary: Eugenio Montale's second book of poetry was first published in 1939. This book is his most experimental work, but a work no less tradition-saturated than Eliot's. As poet, private individual, and "good European", Montale's way of dealing with his difficulties was to seize the occasions offered him by writing poetry in which the lover's passions for his beloved country would convey the truth of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 MONRilke, Rainer Maria
Summary: "With more than two hundred and fifty selected poems by Rilke, including complete translations of the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies, The Poetry of Rilke spans the arc of Rilke's work, from the breakthrough poems of The Book of Hours to the visionary masterpieces written only weeks before his death. This landmark bilingual edition also contains all of Snow's commentaries on Rilke, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RILSaenz, 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 SAECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SAEVázquez Paz, Johanny
Summary: A regular heartbeat is composed of the two sounds made when the blood flows through the organ as the valves contract. To listen to its rhythm through a stethoscope is to appreciate the slight distinction between two movements that are unequivocally connected - one beat calls, the other responds. Similarly, the two sections of Johanny Vázquez Paz's stunning book of poems offer the reader...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashinc Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 VAZGarcía Lorca, Federico
Summary: Poems are in Spanish, and in English translation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 1998