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Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems

10 best books like Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems (Fernando Pessoa): Poems of Paul Celan, The Selected Poems, Hymns and Fragments, Selected Poems: 1931-2004, The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, Without End: New and Selected Poems, The Tunnel: Selected Poems, Collected Poems, 1920-1954, The Complete Poems, This Time: New and Selected 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...
Hymns and Fragments
AuthorFriedrich Hölderlin
ISBN0691014124
Holderlin was one among a group of German Romantic poets that were on the periphery of German Idealism. Along with Novalis and Schiller, his work utilizes Idealist concepts in an overtly aesthetic framework. Like many German Romantic poets and philosophers, he is often ignored by the sottish tendency...
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...
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...
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...
The Tunnel: Selected Poems
AuthorRussell Edson
ISBN0932440657


Never having done any creative writing as an adult, I took my first writing course many years ago, back when I was in my late thirties. I was given conventional short stories and poems as models but nothing really clicked with me, that is, I knew I wanted to write but wasn’t really inspired by...
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...
The Complete Poems
AuthorRandall Jarrell
ISBN0374513058
Poet, novelist, critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a diverse literary talent with a distinctive voice, by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. His poetry, whether dealing with art, war, memories of childhood, or the loneliness of everyday life, is powerful and moving. A poet...
This Time: New and Selected Poems
AuthorGerald Stern
ISBN0393319091
"This healthy collection of new poems and selections from seven previous volumes is remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past as a way of understanding the recurrent questions of growing old: 'Why did it take so long /...
Collected Poems, 1937-1971
AuthorJohn Berryman
ISBN0374522812
John Allyn Berryman (originally John Allyn Smith) was an American poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry. He was the author of The Dream Songs, which...
Walking the Black Cat
AuthorCharles Simic
Philosophy is for the young. Poetry is for the aged.


I said that.

4 1/2



Well, for anyone who didn't catch the Dylan references (including the three words above) ... Not so far-fetched now, okay? And who was being complimented most? Maybe it was Charles, ...




Charles...
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...
The Mandarin and Other Stories
AuthorEça de Queirós
ISBN0946626987
Dedalus European Classics

Eca de Queiroz (1845-1900) is considered to be Portugal’s greatest novelist and one of its finest prose writers. In The Mandarin he turns his satirical eye on the sin of avarice and asks the following question: In the depths of China there lives a mandarin who is...
El infierno musical
AuthorAlejandra Pizarnik
Las muñecas desventradas por mis antiguas manos de muñeca, la desilusión al encontrar pura estopa (pura estepa tu memoria): el padre, que tuvo que ser Tiresias, Ilota en el río. Pero tú, ¿por qué te dejaste asesinar escuchando cuentos de álamos nevados? Yo quería que mis dedos de muñeca penetraran...
Selected Poems, 1954-1986
AuthorTomas Tranströmer
ISBN0880014032
I was disappointed in the
banality of thoughts made
- not less - meaningless by
putting them into a pseudo-poetical form that sometimes breaks with a pattern just to
make a point(less) statement on
life at its most boring in the most simplistic
circumstances - och allt det...
Flow Chart
AuthorJohn Ashbery
ISBN0374525498
Reticent, shy, unfailingly modern, Ashbery is as unorthodox [as] any of the great twentieth-century creators: Breton, Stravinsky, Picasso," observed Jeremy Reed in Britain's "Poetry Review," "We are privileged to be around at a time when he is writing." "Flow Chart," a book-length poem that first...
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...
عظمة أخرى لكلب القبيلة
Authorسركون بولص
قصائد سركون من ديوانه الأخير، الذي يضمّ قصائد موزونة وغير موزونة، بفكّ الارتباط «التاريخي» الوثيق إن صحّ القول، بين الشكل والوزن من جهة، وكذلك فكّ الارتباط...
الأعمال الشعرية
Authorوديع سعادة
تأتي أهمية نشر الأعمال الشعرية لوديع سعادة (دار النهضة العربية) لسببين: الأول شكلي كون الشاعر نشر خمس مجموعات شعرية من أصل عشر مجموعات له بإصدار خاص، وبالتالي...
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