Poems
10 best books like Poems (Pier Paolo Pasolini): Capital of Pain, Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, The Book of Images, The Complete Poems, The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge, Collected Poems, 1951-1971, Canti, Approximate Man and Other Writings, Tutte le poesie
| Author | Paul Éluard |
| ISBN | 0976844966 |
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...
| Author | Ingeborg Bachmann |
| ISBN | 0939010844 |
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...
I would like to step out of my heart’s door
and be under the great sky.
— Rilke, “Lament”
A myriad of shades, a plethora of images, the juxtaposition of sentiments which soothe and unsettle. A miscellany of visuals and existential hues. A mélange of nuances and distinctive sounds....
| Author | Kenneth Rexroth |
| ISBN | 1556592175 |
The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth assembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and includes a never-before-published selection of his earliest work. Rexroth’s poems of nature and protest are remarkable for their erudition and biting social and political commentary; his love...
| Author | Du Fu |
| ISBN | 0811211002 |
Tu Fu radically altered poetry as he found it in the High T’ang period. In addition to making formal innovations in language and structure, he extended the range of acceptable subject matter to include all aspects of public and private experience, thus becoming in the words of translator David Hinton,...
| Author | Delmore Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0811201910 |
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...
| Author | A.R. Ammons |
| ISBN | 0393321924 |
I haven't finished reading ALL the poems here, but am going to take a break for awhile (I've read almost one third, from various time periods in this collection). I forget how I stumbled upon this poet--I think he was quoted on an anarchist site that Lara sent me (believe it or not)--but he is one that I'll...
| Author | Giacomo Leopardi |
| ISBN | 0374235031 |
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways....
| Author | Tristan Tzara |
| ISBN | 0976844915 |
This major anthology of writings by legendary poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) is the only English language source for a complete version of Tzara's epic Approximate Man now widely regarded as the poetic masterpiece of Surrealism. Included is a critical introduction, an account of variants, and an...
| Author | Eugenio Montale |
| ISBN | 8804340487 |
Per Montale la realtà è segnata da una insanabile frattura fra l'individuo e il mondo, che provoca un senso di frustrazione e di estraneità, un malessere esistenziale. Rispetto a questa visione, la poesia si pone per Montale come espressione profonda e personale della propria ricerca di dignità...
| Author | Dino Campana |
| ISBN | 0932440177 |
due anni prima la critica li ha accolti con una sostanziale indifferenza, ma lei li intercetta e ne rimane affascinata. è il 1916, e quel capolavoro dei canti orfici non se li fila nessuno. sibilla aleramo invece ne viene rapita. scrive a dino campana e inizia con lui una fitta corrispondenza epistolare....
| Author | George Oppen |
| ISBN | 0811214885 |
George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poems published in books during his lifetime (1908-84), as well as previously uncollected poems and also a selection of his unpublished work. Oppen, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, has long been acknowledged as one of America's foremost...
| Author | Thom Gunn |
| ISBN | 0374524335 |
The first of the poems in Thom Gunn’s Collected to really knock me out appears half way through his second book, The Sense of Movement (1957). In the poem, “To Yvor Winters, 1955,” Gunn pays homage to his former teacher with a portrait of the Stanford professor that compares his training of Airedale...
| Author | Natalia Ginzburg |
| ISBN | 1559700297 |
The city is Rome, the hub of Italian life and culture. The house is Le Margherite, a home where the sprawling cast of The City and the House is welcome. At the center of this lush epistolary novel is Lucrezia, mother of five, and lover of many. Among her lovers—and perhaps the father of one of her children—is...
| Author | René Char |
| ISBN | 0811211924 |
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 of Vasko Popa
| Author | Vasko Popa |
| ISBN | 0856462683 |
Vasko Popa is one of the great post-war European poets. From surrealist fable to traditional folk-tale, from personal anecdote to tribal myth, Popa's poetry embodies in an original form the most profound imaginative truths of our age, precisely located in the reality and history of Serbia, in the...
| Author | George Seferis |
| ISBN | 0691014914 |
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"...
Essential Poems and Writings of Robert Desnos
| Author | Robert Desnos |
| ISBN | 0976844990 |
Robert Desnos (1900-1945) was one of the primary poets and writers of the Surrealist movement of the years 1924-1930. He wrote, and collaboratively wrote, many influential and celebrated books. Besides poetry, Desnos also wrote on a wide range of subjects from film texts and criticism to novels....
| Author | Basil Bunting |
| ISBN | 0811215636 |
A master of song poems which celebrate—and incarnate—the music of nature and history, love and mythology, religion and language, Basil Bunting (1900-1985) was a major figure in Modernist poetry, recognized by Pound and Zukofsky as early as the 1930s, and crowned, with the 1966 publication of...
| Author | Cesare Pavese |
| ISBN | 8806026267 |
Naslov je prvo što me je privuklo zbirci pesama, ime tj. prezime mi bi poznato pa reših da istu "ponesem kući". Kako ovih dana više otaljavam no što pažljivo i koncentrisano čitam, sedeći zagledana u police, zapitah se šta mi je činiti.. Zgrabih Pavezea i mogu reći da je ovo bila avantura o...
| Author | César Vallejo |
| ISBN | 0520245520 |
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...
