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10 best books like Árbol de Diana (Alejandra Pizarnik): The Poems of St. John of the Cross, Poems and Prose, Behind My Eyes [With CD], Selected Poems, Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, The Will to Change, The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, Antígona González, Antipoems: How to Look Better and Feel Great, Dark Times Filled with Light

The Poems of St. John of the Cross
AuthorJuan de la Cruz
ISBN0226401103
San Juan de la Cruz, the great sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, is regarded by many as Spain's finest poet. Passionate, ecstatic, and spiritual, his poems are a blend of exquisite lyricism and profound mystical thought. In The Poems of St. John of the Cross John Frederick Nims presents his superlative...
Poems and Prose
AuthorGeorg Trakl
ISBN1870352718
Georg Trakl (1887-1914) was an Austrian poet, born in Salzburg. His work has up until now only been available in anthologies and short selections. This volume contains all his major poetic work including the prose poetry and some prose pieces. Trakl's models were Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Verlaine....
Behind My Eyes [With CD]
AuthorLi-Young Lee
ISBN0393065421
Combining sensitivity and eloquence with a broad appeal, Li-Young Lee walks in the footsteps of Stanley Kunitz and Billy Collins as one of the United States s most beloved poets. Playful, erotic, at times mysterious, his work describes the immanent value of everyday experience. Straightforward...
Selected Poems
AuthorGabriela Mistral
ISBN0826328180
The first Nobel Prize in literature to be awarded to a Latin American writer went to the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. Famous and beloved during her lifetime all over Latin America and in Europe, Mistral has never been known in North America as she deserves to be. The reputation of her more flamboyant...
Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann
AuthorIngeborg Bachmann
ISBN0939010844
Darkness Spoken gathers together Ingeborg Bachmann’s two celebrated books of poetry, as well as early and late poems not collected in book form, over 100 of them appearing in English for the first time, as well as 25 poems never before published in German. Bachmann is considered one of the most important...
The Will to Change
AuthorAdrienne Rich
ISBN0393043614
"The Will to Change must be read whole: for its tough distrust of completion and for its cool declaratives which fix us with a stare more unsettling than the most hysterical questions...It includes moments when poverty and heroism explode grammer with their own dignified unsyntactical demands...The...
The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
AuthorYehuda Amichai
ISBN0520205383
Yehuda Amichai is Israel's most popular poet as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this revised and expanded collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved and enduring poems, including forty new poems from his recent...
Antígona González
AuthorSara Uribe
"Esta es la búsqueda de un cuerpo, de uno de tantos cuerpos perdidos en esta larga guerra en México.

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Este es un ensayo y una obra y una novela y un poemario y una investigación, es escritura y reescritura, es un brutalmente honesto activismo literario que invita a reflexionar...
Antipoems: How to Look Better and Feel Great
AuthorNicanor Parra
ISBN0811215970
"Real seriousness," Nicanor Parra, the antipoet of Chile, has said, rests in "the comic." And read in that light, this newest collection of his work is very serious indeed. It is an abundant offering of his signature mocking humor, subverting received conventions, and pretensions in both poetry and...
Dark Times Filled with Light
AuthorJuan Gelman
ISBN1934824682
As Juan Gelman’s name begins appearing with regularity on lists predicting Nobel-Laureate-deserving poets, his work has also begun to appear in English. But only now are the most stunning translations of Gelman’s poetry being published, and in one substantial volume. Dark Times Filled with...
The Sonnets
AuthorJorge Luis Borges
ISBN0143106015
 

This landmark collection brings together for the first time in any language all of the sonnets of Jorge Luis Borges. More intimate and personally revealing than his fiction, and more classical in form than the inventive metafictions that are his hallmark, the sonnets reflect Borges in...
Selected Poems
AuthorRené Char
ISBN0811211924
The Selected Poems of Rene Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poets 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,...
Singularities
AuthorSusan Howe
ISBN0819511943
Since Susan Howe came to read last week, I’ve been thinking that I really must immediately read everything she’s ever written starting now go. Before hearing her read I’d read her major works: The Europe of Trusts (which I’m planning on re-reading because it was almost a decade ago I read it);...
19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem is Translated
AuthorEliot Weinberger
ISBN0918825148
In this book Eliot Weinberger examines the difficulties inherent in translating classic Chinese poetry into Western languages by considering a special case in detail: he selects one poem by Wang Wei (699/701 - 761), romanizes it, gives a literal translation and then considers 16 different translators'...
Save Twilight: Selected Poems
AuthorJulio Cortázar
ISBN0872863336
The power of Eros, the enduring beauty of art, a love-hate nostalgia for his Argentine homeland, the bonds of friendship and the tragic folly of politics are some of the themes of Save Twilight. Informed by his immersion in world literature, music, art, and history, and most of his own emotional geography,...
Rincón de haikus
AuthorMario Benedetti
ISBN9507312412
5-7-5. A Japanese structure with Latin American content. And that's why it didn't bother me that most of these poems don't have the characteristic connection with nature that can be seen in the traditional haiku; in Bashō's work, for example. The roots of Benedetti's haiku is purely Latin American....
Spain in Our Hearts: Espana en el corazon
AuthorPablo Neruda
In 1936, Pablo Neruda was Chile's consul in Madrid, and so horrified by the civil war and the murder of his friend, Federico Garcia Lorca, that he started writing what became his most politically passionate series of poems, Spain in Our Hearts. The collection was printed by soldiers on the front lines...
Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry
AuthorPaul Celan
ISBN0374714215
Paul Celan, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth century, created an oeuvre that stands as testimony to the horrors of his times and as an attempt to chart a topography for a new, uncontaminated language and world. Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry gathers...
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place
Authorbell hooks
ISBN0813136695
Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's leading intellectuals. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks drew her unique pseudonym from the name of her grandmother, an intelligent and strong-willed African American woman who inspired her to...
Libertinagem / Estrela da Manhã
AuthorManuel Bandeira
ISBN8520917941
Giulia Lanciani y otros investigadores brasilenos e italianos forman esta edicion critica que tiene como uno de sus principales objetivos hacer una revision de la vida y obra de Bandeira, a partir del estudio de la experimentacion poetica y su concrecion en la elaboracion de la obra. El libro contiene...
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