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Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann

10 best books like Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann (Ingeborg Bachmann): Poems of Paul Celan, The Selected Poems, Poems and Prose, Julia and the Bazooka and Other Stories, Selected Poems: 1931-2004, Astonishments: Selected Poems, Poems, Without End: New and Selected Poems, Anabasis, The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems

Poems of Paul Celan
AuthorPaul Celan
ISBN0856462659
"In the writing of Paul Celan even we readers who can hear poetry only dimly in German can sense the greatness of his invention: the cadences of a music tilted against music's complacency; words punished for their plausibility by being reinvented and fused together and broken apart; syntax chopped...
The Selected Poems
AuthorOsip Mandelstam
ISBN1590170911
Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian poetry but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan...
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....
Julia and the Bazooka and Other Stories
AuthorAnna Kavan
ISBN0393302849
‘Whatever I am, I’m among the lost things—I do know that.’

To enter the works of Anna Kavan is to enter a swirling, menacing reality where inexorable doom weighs heavy through each word. Each story in Julia and the Bazooka is comprised of a thinly-fictionalized version of Kavan’s...
Selected Poems: 1931-2004
AuthorCzesław Miłosz
ISBN0060188677
Selected Poems: 1931-2004 celebrates Czeslaw Milosz's lifetime of poetry. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of expression and probing inquiry. Life opened for Czeslaw Milosz at a crossroads of civilizations in northeastern Europe. This was less a melting...
Astonishments: Selected Poems
AuthorAnna Kamieńska
ISBN1557255288
Anna Kamienska came of age during the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Poland and lived under Communism. These experiences, as well as the sudden death of her husband, led her to engagement with the Bible and the great religious thinkers of the twentieth century. Her poems record the struggles of a rational...
Poems
AuthorPier Paolo Pasolini
ISBN0374524696
"Sex, death, political passion, these are the simple objects to which I give my elegiac heart"

Winner of the first Renato Poggioli/William Weaver Award of PEN American Center

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the...
Without End: New and Selected Poems
AuthorAdam Zagajewski
ISBN0374528616
I love to swim in the sea, which keeps
talking to itself
in the monotone of a vagabond
who no longer recalls
exactly how long he's been on the road.
Swimming is like prayer:
palms join and part,
join and part,
almost without end.
--from "On Swimming"

Without...
Anabasis
AuthorSaint-John Perse
ISBN0156074060
Anabase selected poems, Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse (31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975) was a French poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." He was a major French diplomat from 1914 to 1940, after which he...
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
AuthorFrancis Ponge
ISBN0916390586
POETRY OF FRANCIS PONGE

I consider it as one of my miraculous reading encounters to have discovered this great poetry book of Francis Ponge. I first read about it in Italo Calvino's book, "Why read Classics?"

Ponge possesses a unique way of seeing. For him, seeing comes before words....
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
AuthorRobert Chandler
An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and...
Songs from the Gallows: Galgenlieder
AuthorChristian Morgenstern
ISBN0300052782
Antologie z rozsáhlého, dnes již klasického souboru groteskně laděných veršů německého básníka.
Morgenstern ve své nejslavnější sbírce potvrzuje pověst zakladatele německé nonsensové poezie. Jeho verše, většinou komponované v pravidelné rýmové poloze,...
The Collected Poems, 1956-1998
AuthorZbigniew Herbert
ISBN0060783907
This outstanding new translation brings a uniformity of voice to Zbigniew Herbert's entire poetic output, from his first book of poems, String of Light, in 1956, to his final volume, previously unpublished in English, Epilogue Of the Storm. Collected Poems: 1956-1998, as Joseph Brodsky said of Herbert's...
Collected Poems
AuthorStéphane Mallarmé
ISBN0520081889
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) is one of the giants of nineteenth-century French poetry. Leader of the Symbolist movement, he exerted a powerful influence on modern literature and thought, which can be traced in the works of Paul Valéry, W.B. Yeats, and Jacques Derrida. From his early twenties...
The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry
AuthorPaul Auster
ISBN0394717481
During the 20th Century, France was home to many of the world's greatest poets. This collection highlights some of the very best verse that came out of a country and century defined by war and liberation. Let Paul Auster guide you through some of the best poetry that 20th century France has to offer.

"Indispensable...
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,...
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"...
The Complete Poetry
AuthorCésar Vallejo
ISBN0520245520
This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award...
Die Ursache: Eine Andeutung
AuthorThomas Bernhard
ISBN3423012994
Die Ursachen waren zerstörend und verbrecherisch - sie hinterließen unauslöschliche Spuren. Das Internat: ein raffiniert gegen den Geist gebauter Kerker; die Stadt: eine Todeskrankheit, ein Friedhof der Phantasie und der Wünsche. Der Krieg: die Stollen, in denen Hunderte erstickt und umgekommen...
Complete Poems
AuthorBlaise Cendrars
ISBN0520065808
Blaise Cendrars was a pioneer of modernist literature. The full range of his poetry—from classical rhymed alexandrines to "cubist" modernism, and from feverish, even visionary, depression to airy good humor—offers a challenge no translator has accepted until now.

Here, for the first...
Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984
AuthorHenri Michaux
ISBN0520212290
Henri Michaux defies common critical definition. Critics have compared his work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift, Klee, and Beckett. Allen Ginsberg called Michaux “genius,” and Jorge Luis Borges wrote that Michaux’s work “is without equal in the literature of our time.”...
Lust
AuthorElfriede Jelinek
ISBN1852421835
In a quaint Austrian ski resort, things are not quite what they seem. Hermann, the manager of a paper mill, has decided that sexual gratification begins at home. Which means Gerti - his wife and property. Gerti is not asked how she feels about the use Hermann puts her to. She is a receptacle into which Hermann...
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