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C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems by C. P. Cavafy (Author) , George Savidis (Edited by) , Edmund Keeley (Translated by) , Philip Sherrard (Translated by)
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Ser.
C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern Eu ...Show more
Dear Ms. Schubert - Poems by Ewa Lipska by Ewa Lipska; Robin Davidson (Translator); Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska (Translator)
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Ser.
The first complete English translation of Ewa Lipska's exciting "Dear Ms. Schubert" poems Ewa Lipska is one of Europe's most compelling and important poets, but relatively little of her recent work has been translated into English. A Polish-English bilingual edition, Dear Ms. Schubert is the first compl ...Show more
In Hora Mortis by BERNHARD THOMAS
Category: Poetry | Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
Internationally acclaimed Austrian novelist, playwright, and memoirist Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) has been compared to Kafka and Beckett, and critics have ranked his novels among the masterpieces of the twentieth century. But in fact he began his career in the 1950s as a poet, publishing three books of ...Show more
Poems Under Saturn Poemes Saturiens by VERLAINE PAUL
Category: Poetry | Series: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Ser.
The first complete English edition of Verlaine's important first book of poems Poems Under Saturn is the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest of nin ...Show more
Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems by Wislawa Szymborska by Wislawa Szymborska
Category: Poetry | Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and ancient art of poetry in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is, in the translators' words, "that rarest of phenomena: a serious poet who commands a larg ...Show more
The Dream of the Poem - Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 by Peter Cole (Translator)
Category: Activity | Series: The\Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Ser.
Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies an extraordinary sensuality and intense fa ...Show more
The Translator of Desires - Poems by Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin; Sells, Michael (Translator);
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Ser.
A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translation The Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240 CE), one of the most influential writers of classical Arabic and Islamic civilization. In this aut ...Show more
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