The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert
7 best books like The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert (Jaroslav Seifert): Inferno, Death Comes for the Archbishop, The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, The Half-Finished Heaven, Listening Point
| Author | Dante Alighieri |
| ISBN | 0812970063 |
I just want to start off by saying that "Through me you enter into the City of Woes" would make an EXCELLENT tramp stamp. Jump on it!
Being that I am an atheist living in the "Bible Belt," I was certain that reading this would lead to some sort of goodreads tirade, which can at times feel about as good...
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 0679728899 |
There is something epic—and almost mythic—about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, although the story it tells is that of a single human life, lived simply in the silence of the desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast...
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
| Author | Pablo Neruda |
| ISBN | 0872864286 |
This collection of Neruda’s most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the United States, this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda’s various styles and themes. An impressive...
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
| Author | Milan Kundera |
| ISBN | 0060932147 |
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970's. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than just its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated...
Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
| Author | Ken Liu |
| ISBN | 0765384191 |
Award-winning translator and author Ken Liu presents a collection of short speculative fiction from China. Some stories have won awards; some have been included in various 'Year's Best' anthologies; some have been well reviewed by critics and readers; and some are simply Ken's personal favorites....
| Author | Tomas Tranströmer |
| ISBN | 1555973515 |
From the Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature
The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and has a prestigious worldwide reputation. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Tranströmer's, as well as one of his first translators,...
Poetic meditations about Olson’s cabin and his life there.
This long-awaited paperback edition of a cabin-reading classic tells the story of Olson’s Listening Point from his first night of sleeping under the stars, to the eventual building of his retreat there.
"Mr. Olson...
