The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems
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| Author | Paul Celan |
| ISBN | 0856462659 |
| Author | Charles Simic |
| ISBN | 0156983508 |
see it dissolve into shimmering currents,
carrying burdens of ashen leaves that autumn
has swept beneath the silent tremors, teaming to cry
their laments; Or hide behind a ripe tree and cast a glance,
all the way to that faint window where a boy, on...
| Author | Jaroslav Seifert |
| ISBN | 0945774397 |
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Jaroslav Seifert's words are bound together with something...
| Author | Czesław Miłosz |
| ISBN | 0060514485 |
| Author | Lorine Niedecker |
| ISBN | 0520224337 |
| Author | Adam Zagajewski |
| ISBN | 0374528616 |
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...
| Author | A.C. Graham |
| ISBN | 1590172574 |
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| ISBN | 0819510157 |
| Author | Francis Ponge |
| ISBN | 0916390586 |
I consider it as one of my miraculous reading encounters to have discovered this great poetry book of Francis Ponge. I first read about it in Italo Calvino's book, "Why read Classics?"
Ponge possesses a unique way of seeing. For him, seeing comes before words....
| Author | Russell Edson |
| ISBN | 0932440657 |
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...
| Author | Eugenio Montale |
| ISBN | 0374526257 |
Eugenio Montale is universally recognized as having brought the great Italian lyric tradition that begins with Dante into the twentieth century with unrivaled...
| Author | Larry Levis |
| ISBN | 0822956489 |
| Author | Richard Hugo |
| ISBN | 0393307840 |
| Author | Dorianne Laux |
| ISBN | 0393329623 |
The...
| Author | Wisława Szymborska |
| ISBN | 0393323854 |
| Author | Zbigniew Herbert |
| ISBN | 0060783907 |
| Author | Giuseppe Ungaretti |
| ISBN | 0374528926 |
Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was a pioneer of the Modernist movement in Italian poetry and is widely regarded as one of the leading Italian poets of the twentieth century. His verse is renowned and loved for its powerful insight...
| Author | Jack Gilbert |
There is no one quite like Jack Gilbert in postwar American...
| Author | Osip Mandelstam |
| ISBN | 0062099426 |
Political nonconformist Osip Mandelstam's opposition to Stalin's totalitarian government made him a target of the communist state. The public recitation...