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10 best books like Anabasis (Saint-John Perse): Ash Wednesday, The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert, Seeing Things: Poems, Capital of Pain, Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems, Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge, The Changing Light at Sandover, Collected Poems, 1920-1954, Collected Poems

Ash Wednesday
AuthorT.S. Eliot
Ash Wednesday, T.S. Eliot
IV
Who walked between the violet and the violet
Who walked between
The various ranks of varied green
Going in white and blue, in Mary's colour,
Talking of trivial things
In ignorance and knowledge of eternal dolour
Who moved among the others...
The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert
AuthorJaroslav Seifert
ISBN0945774397
Just found this gem - had never heard of him before - at Old Harbor Books in Sitka, Alaska, where I am currently visiting. I am trying not to crack the spine as I read it but these poems are so good, I don't think I'll make it!

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Jaroslav Seifert's words are bound together with something...
Seeing Things: Poems
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0374523894
Seamus Heaney (born April 13, 1939) received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, four years after the publication of this book, Seeing Things. The Nobel committee described his works as “those of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.” He was a...
Capital of Pain
AuthorPaul Éluard
ISBN0976844966
Capital of Pain, is considered one of the key texts of surrealism. This is the first new translation into English of this work in over 30 years and the only edition available in the English language. This edition presents the text in its entirety in a bilingual format, and includes an extensive essay on...
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 Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
AuthorTomas Tranströmer
ISBN0811216721
The Collected Poems of one of the world's greatest living writers, Tomas Tranströmer, now available in this comprehensive edition.

In day's first hours consciousness can grasp the world
as the hand grips a sun-warmed stone.

Translated into fifty languages, the poetry of...
Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge
AuthorDelmore Schwartz
ISBN0811201910
When this book was first published (as Summer Knowledge) in 1959.
Delmore Schwartz was still riding a crest, the golden boy of the literary scene—a position he had commanded ever since the appearance of his first collection of stories and poems in 1938. Summer Knowledge won for him both the prestigious...
The Changing Light at Sandover
AuthorJames Merrill
ISBN0307263215
James Merrill’s audacious and dazzling epic poem, The Changing Light at Sandover, remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years. Individual parts won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the entire poem, when it was collected...
Collected Poems, 1920-1954
AuthorEugenio Montale
ISBN0374526257
Winner of the Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the Premio Montale, an acclaimed translation of Italy's greatest modern poet

Eugenio Montale is universally recognized as having brought the great Italian lyric tradition that begins with Dante into the twentieth century with unrivaled...
Collected Poems
AuthorJames Wright
ISBN0819560227
I may skip a detailed review on this, simply because poetry reviews are a real ass kicker for me. Like work. But, that said, it deserves one. Wright is one best poets I've read (and I've read A LOT). One reason for this is that he's SO American in his settings and voice. If you like Whitman, you should like this...
Gunslinger
AuthorEd Dorn
ISBN0822309327
Dorn's high-spirited, crazy-quilt, complex anti-epic is a masterful critique of late twentieth-century capitalism and is one of the great comic poems of American literature. Dorn is one of the few political poets in America; this fantasy about a demigod cowboy, a saloon madam, and a talking horse...
The Collected Poems
AuthorTed Berrigan
ISBN0520251555
Amazing collection. For those of us who had owned (and in my case, worn out) So Going Around Cities, the Collected surprises, since it is HUGE! and has a lot of work that we (or I) hadn't seen before. I knew Ted's work for years, sat in a class of his (with Alice) back in the 1970's at Naropa. For me, Ted's work...
Selected Poems
AuthorGiuseppe Ungaretti
ISBN0374528926
A major new translation of one of Italy's greatest modern poets

Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was a pioneer of the Modernist movement in Italian poetry and is widely regarded as one of the leading Italian poets of the twentieth century. His verse is renowned and loved for its powerful insight...
Backbone Flute: Selected Poetry
AuthorVladimir Mayakovsky
ISBN1438211643
Vladimir Mayakovsky (July 19, 1893 - April 14, 1930) is one of the most recognized and celebrated poets of the Russian canon. One of the leaders of the Russian Futurism movement, which sought to capture the wonder of the fast-paced modern world and renounced the static art of the past, Mayakovsky completely...
Poems of Arab Andalusia
AuthorCola Franzen
ISBN0872862429
These poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa'id, who wanted poems "whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose language is more beautiful than a fair face." Spanish readers have long been enchanted by their enduring...
Collected Poems
AuthorGeorge Seferis
ISBN0691014914
In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the poems published in Princeton's earlier bilingual edition, "George Seferis: Collected Poems"...
People on a Bridge
AuthorWisława Szymborska
ISBN0948259701
Dufour Editions, an independent publisher and distributor for more than forty years, has an established reputation as a fine literary house. International poetry has always been outstanding in the list, which initially began with some of Thomas Kinsella's and John Montague's first books from the...
Fureur et mystère
AuthorRené Char
« Pourquoi le cacher ? Ce n'est pas une poésie facile. Ses difficultés sont à proportion, en nous, des vieilles habitudes de voir et de leur résistance : René Char ou la jeunesse des mots, du monde... Il faut le lire et le relire pour, peu à peu, sentir en soi la débâcle des vieilles digues, de l'imagination...
The Flanders Road
AuthorClaude Simon
ISBN0714539945
During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, which led to the fall of France, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three of his dragoons, involved with him in different capacities, remember him and help the reader piece together the realities behind the man and his death.

One...
The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis
AuthorOdysseus Elytis
ISBN0801880459
In awarding Odysseus Elytis the 1979 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy praised him "for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clearsightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness." Throughout...
Sunstone/Piedra De Sol
AuthorOctavio Paz
ISBN0811211959
Presented in Eliot Weinberger's excellent new translation with the Spanish texts en face, this is the 1957 poem "that definitively established Paz as a major international figure" (Sagetrieb). Written as a single cyclical sentence (at the end of the poem the first six lines are written again), Sunstone...
خاطره‌ای در درونم است
AuthorAnna Akhmatova
Selected Poems, Anna Akhmatova
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was one of the most significant Russian poets of the 20th century. She was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in 1965.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز نهم از ماه نوامبر...
My Poems...: Selected Poetry
AuthorMarina Tsvetaeva
ISBN1438202784
Marina Tsvetaeva (October 8, 1892 - 31 August 31, 1941) is considered by many to be Russia's greatest female poet, rivaled perhaps only by Anna Akhmatova. Tsvetaeva's poetry was often of a very passionate and almost obsessive nature. She writes of unrequited love and heartbreak, of her admiration...
Les Boulevards de ceinture
AuthorPatrick Modiano
ISBN0785933905
Les Boulevards de Ceinture (1972) = Ring Roads (Trilogie «de l'Occupation» #3), Patrick Modiano
Ring Roads, was awarded the French Academy's Grand Prix du Roman (1972), is the story of a young Jew, Serge, in search of his father, Chalva, who disappeared from his life ten years earlier. He finds...
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