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Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman; Lawrence Kramer (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: NYRB Poets Ser.
Drum-Taps was written during the Civil War, oput together,o as Whitman wrote to a friend, oby fits and starts, on the field, in hospitals as I worked with the soldier boys.o As soon as the war ended in 1865, Whitman published the book, which includes some of his tenderest and most haunting poems, along ...Show more
IF BORDERLANDS by PARTRIDGE ELISE
Category: Poetry | Series: NYRB Poets Ser.
Elise Partridge who was born in the US but spent her adult years in Canada wrote three books of poetry that were widely admired for their meticulous, glittering craft and their scrupulous truth-to-life. A poet of family and friends, of nature, of the daily round, of illness, who documented an early bo ...Show more
Inri by Raúl Zurita (Foreword by); William Rowe (Translator, Afterword by); Norma Cole (Introduction by)
Category: Poetry | Series: NYRB Poets Ser.
A harrowing meditation on tyranny, torture, and freedom by one of Chil 's most celebrated contemporary poets. In 2001, the president of Chile publicly acknowledged that many of the bodies of the people who had disappeared under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet would never be recovered. The v ...Show more
Li Shangyin by Shangyin Li
Category: Poetry | Series: NYRB Poets Ser.
A one-of-a-kind collection of work by little-known Late Tang poetic master Li Shangyin. Li Shangyin is one of the foremost poets of the late Tang, but until now he has rarely been translated into English, perhaps because the esotericism and sensuality of his work set him apart from the austere masters o ...Show more
Love Sonnets and Elegies by Louise Labe
Category: Poetry | Series: NYRB Poets Ser.
Louise Labe, one of the most original poets of the French Renaissance, published her complete Works around the age of thirty and then disappeared from history. Rediscovered in the nineteenth century, her incandescent love sonnets were later translated into German by Rilke and appear here in a revelatory ...Show more
Maqroll's Prayer And Other Poems by Alvaro Mutis
Category: Poetry | Series: NYRB Poets Ser.
lvaro Mutis is celebrated internationally as the author of the seven novellas, written between 1986 and 1993, that constitute the legendary and widely loved Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll. Maqroll, the Gaviero, or watchman, is a wanderer on the face of the earth, always in pursuit of love and f ...Show more
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