The Collected Poems, 1957-1987
8 best books like The Collected Poems, 1957-1987 (Octavio Paz): The Sheltering Sky, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Collected Fictions, Les Fleurs du Mal, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, Complete Poems, The Collected Poems, Vol. 2: 1939-1962, The Complete Poetry
| Author | Paul Bowles |
| ISBN | 0141023422 |
In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa, The Sheltering Sky is at once...
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
| Author | Pablo Neruda |
| ISBN | 0143039962 |
When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition with an introduction by Cristina Garcia,...
| Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
| ISBN | 0140286802 |
Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through...
| Author | Charles Baudelaire |
| ISBN | 0879234628 |
After reading Baudelaire, I suddenly find myself wanting to smoke cigarettes and say very cynical things while donning a trendy haircut. Plus, if I didn't read Baudelaire, how could I possibly carry on conversations with pretentious art students?
In all seriousness, though, I wish my French...
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
| Author | Pablo Neruda |
| ISBN | 0374529604 |
The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century - in any language" - Gabriel García Márquez
"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, the author...
| Author | Marianne Moore |
| ISBN | 0140188517 |
How many of you have even heard of Marianne Moore?
I'm genuinely curious on this point because I hadn't until last week. Her relative obscurity (at least here in the UK) is a bit of a shame because she has an important voice in the world of poetry.
Her poetry is unusual and it’s very hard...
| Author | William Carlos Williams |
| ISBN | 0811211886 |
You really need to read the Collected to understand Williams. The various Selecteds out there really don't do this remarkable poet justice (though the review I read of Pinsky's new edited volume of Williams was positive--haven't checked that out yet). Williams was not just an Imagist poet, writing...
| 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...
