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On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poemas frente al mar (Bilingual)

10 best books like On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poemas frente al mar (Bilingual) (Pablo Neruda): The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Blue Horses, Felicity, A Thousand Mornings, Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft, Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, To the Wedding, About Looking, G.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
ISBN1407247425
Dick at his wildest and strangest - a mystifying but brilliant book - SF: 100 Best Novels

In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer...
Blue Horses
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN1594204799
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life’s work, describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature.

Herons, sparrows, owls, and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry, and...
Felicity
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN1594206767
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems  

“If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger,”

Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse...
A Thousand Mornings
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN1594204772
In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power...
Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft
AuthorTony Hoagland
ISBN1555974554
The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me


Meanness, the very thing that is unforgivable in human social life, in poetry is thrilling and valuable. Why? Because the willingness to be offensive sets free the ruthless...
Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People
AuthorMonica Brown
Once there was a little boy named Neftalí who loved wild things wildly and quiet things quietly. From the moment he could talk, he surrounded himself with words. Neftalí discovered the magic between the pages of books. When he was sixteen, he began publishing his poems as Pablo Neruda.

Pablo...
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
AuthorWalter Pater
'To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.'

The Renaissance (1873) at once became the touchstone for the decadent imagination for a generation of Oxford undergraduates. Pater was shocked at the reaction his book inspired: 'I wish they would...
To the Wedding
AuthorJohn Berger
ISBN0679767770
QUESTIONE DI SGUARDI
La scrittura di Berger mi ha subito avvolto, familiare, ma senza privarmi di stupore.
Questa volta mi ha sollevato e trasportato in un viaggio alla fonte del mito e del tempo.

Un viaggio fatto di nomi epici scelti con cura.

Di geografie dello spazio e della...
About Looking
AuthorJohn Berger
ISBN0679736557
As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see....
G.
AuthorJohn Berger
ISBN0679736549
In this luminous novel — winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize — John Berger relates the story of "G.," a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and...
Worshipful Company of Fletchers
AuthorJames Tate
ISBN0880014318
bought this used. The dipshit before me underlined some nice parts and put marginalia in, some examples of: during the poem "An Eland, In Retirement" in response to the underlined couplet - beating drums, and women with/dinner plates in their lips - they wrote in curly cue blue pen, "it's like the poem...
Modern Life
AuthorMatthea Harvey
ISBN1555974805
Matthea Harvey's Modern Life introduces a new voice that tries to exist in the gray area between good and evil, love and hate. In the central sequences, "The Future of Terror" and "The Terror of the Future," Harvey imagines citizens and soldiers at the end of their wits at the impending end of the world....
Chronic
AuthorD.A. Powell
The first poetry collection by D. A. Powell since his remarkable trilogy of Tea, Lunch, and
Cocktails, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

so many of the best days seem minor forms of nearness
that easily falls among the dropseed: a rind, a left-behind
—from...
Sorry, Tree
AuthorEileen Myles
ISBN1933517204
“One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature—honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it.”—Dennis Cooper

Eileen Myles has written thousands of poems since she gave her first reading at CBGB in 1974. BUST magazine calls...
Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry
AuthorGotthold Ephraim Lessing
ISBN0801831393
حاول الناقد الإلماني ليسنج في كتابه "لاؤوكون" أن يرد الشعر إلى فلسفة زمانية، والتصوير إلى فلسفة مكانية في محاولة لرصد أوجه الاختلاف بينهما، وقد دفعه ذلك...
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...
Blind Huber
AuthorNick Flynn
ISBN1555973736
Award-winning poet Nick Flynn takes readers into the dangerous and irresistible center of the hive

I sit in a body & think of a body, I picture
Burnens' hands, my words
make them move. I say, plunge them into the hive,
& his hands go in.
—from "Blind Huber"

Blindness...
The Man With Night Sweats
AuthorThom Gunn
ISBN0374523819
Thom Gunn's excellent verses in The Man with Night Sweats qualify him as the Poet Laureate for the AIDS crisis. This would be an unwanted honor for the poet, but the need for these brilliant poems is great, as they ensure that the events of that sorrowful era will remain accessible to students of history...
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
AuthorFriedrich Schiller
ISBN0486437396
“Essential reading.” — New Society.
A classic of eighteenth-century thought, Friedrich Schiller’s treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy’s most profound works. In addition to its importance to the history of ideas, this 1795 essay remains relevant...
The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art
AuthorEileen Myles
ISBN1584350660
Poet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Like Baudelaire's gentleman stroller, Myles travels the city--wandering on garbage-strewn New York streets in the heat of summer, drifting though the antiseptic...
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
AuthorMark Doty
ISBN0807066095
Although at first glance this slim volume appears to be a quick read, it should be lingered over and reread to uncover the full depth of its beauty and insight. Combining memoir with artistic and philosophical musings, the poet and National Book Critics Circle Award winner (for My Alexandria) begins...
Dime-Store Alchemy
AuthorCharles Simic
ISBN0008800130
In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic refects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America’s great artists. Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.

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