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Book of the Edge
Häftad, 2010
190 kr
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Ece Temelkuran is arguably Turkey’s most accomplished young writer. In Book of the Edge , she describes an allegorical journey wherein the speaker, or explorer, encounters strange creatures, including a butterfly, bull, swordfish, sow bug, and cruel city dwellers. These poems point to the …
Flowers of a Moment
Av Ko Un
Häftad, 2006
184 kr
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“Bodhisattva of Korean poetry, exuberant, demotic, abundant, obsessed with poetic creation . . . Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.”—Allen Ginsberg "Korea's greatest living Zen poet."—Lawrence Ferlinghetti …
Engravings Torn from Insomnia
Av Olga Orozco
Häftad, 2002
147 kr
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The first English translation of poems from a major 20th-century South American Writer.
Miracle Maker
The Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi
Häftad, 2003
190 kr
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This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi’s six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, -cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies. Al-Azzawi employs -humor, …
Before and After the Fall
New Poems
Häftad, 2004
164 kr
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These poems, written between 1985 and 1994, record what Sandor Csoori has called "the chronic memory of violence," namely the horrors of World War II and the repressions of the ensuing forty-five year Communist occupation. Several of the poems written after 1989, the year Communism collapsed in …
Matter of Blue
Häftad, 2005
249 kr
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"In A Matter of Blue, we read that blue is what we would like to cultivate, something that clings to bees' feet and the poet's lips, something that can be used as a basis for composition or creation, something that is inherent in the gaze of the dark-eyed women ..."-Dawn Cornelio A Matter of Blue …
Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon
Women's Poems from Tang China
Häftad, 2005
190 kr
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This collection of 106 poems by 44 female Tang-era poets is the most comprehensive of its kind. Poets are organized based on their status in Tang dynasty society: women of the court, women of the household, courtesans and entertainers, and women of religion. While each poet's concerns vary with …
The Clean Shirt of It
Poems of Paulo Henriques Britto
Häftad, 2007
185 kr
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The Clean Shirt of It marks the first English translation of a full-length poetry title by acclaimed Brazilian poet Paulo Henriques Britto. As translator Idra Novey writes in her introduction, “No other contemporary Brazilian poets write like Britto. At least not with such a keen sense of the …
Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs
His Songs
Av Adonis
Häftad, 2008
249 kr
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Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis later moved to Lebanon and became a pivotal figure in the new poetry of the late 1960s. With the publication of Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs in 1963-widely viewed as a watershed moment in Arabic poetry-Adonis forged a new set of possibilities for Arabic poetry, …
Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs
His Songs
Av Adonis
Inbunden, 2008
407 kr
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Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis later moved to Lebanon and became a pivotal figure in the new poetry of the late 1960s. With the publication of Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs in 1963-widely viewed as a watershed moment in Arabic poetry-Adonis forged a new set of possibilities for Arabic poetry, …
Dark Things
Poetry by Novica Tadic
Av Novica Tadic
Häftad, 2009
190 kr
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Novica Tadic is Serbia’s leading poet and the linguistic heir to Vasko Popa. With this translation, US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winner Charles Simic brings the full range of Tadic’s dark beauty to light: I dream how on a flat surface I set down knives of various shapes and sizes. Already …
Praises & Offenses
Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic
Av Aída Cartagena Portalatin, Angela Hernández Núñez m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
190 kr
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As tropical as it is topical, this landmark anthology gives voice to three powerful women poets from the Dominican Republic. Together they present a wide array of linguistic and stylistic elements, and they address shared political and cultural issues that illuminate what it means to be a woman in …
The Book of Things
Av Ales Steger
Häftad, 2010
177 kr
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Winner of The 2011 Best Translated Book of the Year Award Winner of The 2011 Award for Best Literary Translation into English from the AATSEL From his first book of poems, Chessboards of Hours (1995), Aleš Šteger has been one of Slovenia's most promising poets. The philosophical and lyrical …
Remnants of Another Age
Häftad, 2011
256 kr
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"These poems move mysteriously by means of a profound inner concentration, giving expression to the deepest laws of the mind. Their linguistic 'making' is informed by vivid evidence of a serious self-making, soul-making, and heart-making. We are lucky to have these English incarnations of Nikola …
House Inspections
Häftad, 2011
190 kr
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"These poems do much more than blur the line between illusion and reality: they evoke that vibrant contradiction of dreaming in which the real and unreal exist in perfect simultaneity."— The Georgia Review Theatre A man performs whole days from his life as a drama, each day at home in his …
The Folding Star
and Other Poems
Häftad, 2012
174 kr
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"His poems are meditative and beautiful, his diction fragile and clear...In short, it is a lovely book, and BOA Editions has provided us with a fine candidate for torchbearer."--Hey Small Press! "We are fortunate to now have them in English so that we who don't read Polish can now read these, and …
Diadem: Selected Poems
Selected Poems
Häftad, 2012
187 kr
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Marosa di Giorgio has one of the most distinct and recognizable voices in Latin American poetry. Her surreal and fable-like prose poems invite comparison to Franz Kafka, Julio Cortázar, or even contemporary American poets Russell Edson and Charles Simic. But di Giorgio's voice, imagery, and …
Oasis of Now
Selected Poems
Häftad, 2013
190 kr
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The Oasis of Now is the first U.S. book publication of the works of Sohrab Sepehri (19281980), one of the major Iranian poets of the twentieth century. Well-versed in Buddhism, mysticism, and Western traditions, Sepehri mingled Western concepts with Eastern ones, creating a poetry unsurpassed in …
World Shared
Häftad, 2014
177 kr
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Dariusz Sosnicki's poems open our eyes to the sublime just beneath the surface of the mundane: a train carrying children away from their parents for summer vacation turns into a ravenous monster; a meal at a Chinese restaurant inspires a surreal journey through the zodiac; a malfunctioning printer …
Dark Things
Av Novica Tadic
E-bok, 2016
122 kr
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Novica Tadic is Serbia’s leading poet and the linguistic heir to Vasko Popa. With this translation, US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winner Charles Simic brings the full range of Tadic’s dark beauty to light:I dream how on a flat surfaceI set down knives of variousshapes and sizes.Already there …
Lighthouse for the Drowning
Häftad, 2017
252 kr
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Presented bilingually, this first US publication of Jawdat Fakhreddineone of the major Lebanese names in modern Arabic poetryestablishes a revolutionary dialogue between international, modernist values and the Arabic tradition. Fakhreddine’s unique voice is a breakthrough for the poetic language …
Living Theatre
Häftad, 2017
177 kr
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WINNER OF THE 2018 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY TRANSLATIONIn this first US publication of celebrated Italian poet Bianca Tarozzi, narrative poems (presented bilingually in both English and the original Italian) carry us through the poet's childhood memories of World War II under …
Matter of Blue
Inbunden, 2005
217 kr
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"In A Matter of Blue, we read that blue is what we would like to cultivate, something that clings to bees' feet and the poet's lips, something that can be used as a basis for composition or creation, something that is inherent in the gaze of the dark-eyed women ..."-Dawn Cornelio A Matter of Blue …
Probable Lives
Av Felipe Benitez Reyes, Aaron Zaritzky
Inbunden, 2006
236 kr
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The writing of Felipe Benitez Reyes, a significant contributor to the Spanish Postmodern esthetic, speaks to issues of voice, persona, and the possibilities of fiction. Probable Lives won the 1996 National Book Award in Spain, the 1996 National Critics' Award in Spain, and the City of Melilla …
Probable Lives
Av Felipe Benitez Reyes, Aaron Zaritzky
Häftad, 2006
177 kr
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The writing of Felipe Benitez Reyes, a significant contributor to the Spanish Postmodern esthetic, speaks to issues of voice, persona, and the possibilities of fiction. Probable Lives won the 1996 National Book Award in Spain, the 1996 National Critics' Award in Spain, and the City of Melilla …
