The Collected Poems, 1956-1998

10 best books like The Collected Poems, 1956-1998 (Zbigniew Herbert): The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, The Selected Poems, Ruslan and Ludmila, The Collected Poems, Poems New and Collected, Capital of Pain, The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems, Inny świat, The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, Collected Poems in English

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Author	Anna Akhmatova
ISBN	0939010275

Initially published in 1990, when the New York Times Book Review named it one of fourteen "Best Books of the Year," Judith Hemschemeyer's translation of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is the definitive edition, and has sold over 13,000 copies, making it one of the most successful poetry titles...

The Selected Poems

Author	Osip Mandelstam
ISBN	1590170911

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...

Ruslan and Ludmila

Author	Alexander Pushkin
ISBN	5050047730

Had I been 15, I would've certainly fallen in love with or say fantasized about Ruslan and though I'm not, this poetical work has been successful in charming me. Pushkin's dedication, "Queens of my heart, you lovely girls, they're meant for you and only you" was something I felt throughout. He weaves...

The Collected Poems

Author	Wallace Stevens
ISBN	0679726691

i fell in love with two men in my undergrad senior seminar. it was on wallace stevens and t.s. eliot.

the way i loved both of these writers hurt. (i'll set eliot aside for another time).

stevens kills me when he uses very innocent symbols - making ice cream, in "the emperor of ice cream",...

Poems New and Collected

Author	Wisława Szymborska
ISBN	0156011468

Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts. This is the book that her many fans have been anxiously...

Capital of Pain

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...

The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems

Author

Emily Dickinson

The Gorgeous Nothings — the first full-color facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson’s manuscripts ever to appear — is a deluxe edition of her late writings, presenting this crucially important, experimental late work exactly as she wrote it on scraps of envelopes. A never-before-possible...

Inny świat

Author	Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
ISBN	8308032303

Wspomnienia Gustawa Herlinga - Grudzińskiego z sowieckiego łagru w Jercewie pod Archagielskiem. Książka obok nieprzeciętnych walorów literackich jest przede wszystkim - co podkreśla w rozmowie Autor - dokumentalną relacją ofiary, kronikarza i badacza instytucji i mechanizmów...

The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

Author	Yehuda Amichai
ISBN	0520205383

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...

Collected Poems in English

Author	Joseph Brodsky
ISBN	0374528381

One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months of internal exile at hard labor, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Here, collected for the first time, are...

The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems

Author	Tomas Tranströmer
ISBN	0811216721

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...

Miracle Fair: Selected Poems

Author	Wisława Szymborska
ISBN	0393323854

Winner of the Heldt Prize for Translation. A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz. This long-awaited volume samples the full range of Wislawa Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, the wonders of nature's beauty, and the illusory...

The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

Author	Guy Davenport
ISBN	1567920802

I've lost count of the times I read his essay on Whitman.

Within a few miles of each other in the 1880s, Whitman was putting the last touches to his great book, Eadweard Muybridge was photographing movements milliseconds apart of animals, naked athletes, and women, and Thomas Eakins was painting...

Strong Opinions

Author	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	0679726098

“I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better balanced mad mind than mine.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions

Vladimir Nabokov lets us know directly that his every word recorded in these interviews was carefully and thoughtfully written out after having received,...