Charles Simic
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Translated and introduced with the surrealist wit that is Charles Simic's signature, this book offers American readers, for the first time in English, the brilliance of Serbian poet Radmila Lazic. Through her compelling and strange leaps and dodges, Lazic describes an identity--personal and political--informed by catastrophe and victimization that restlessly and imaginatively swerves into irreverence and often-comic absurdity. "Goodness is boring,...
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American poets continuum volume no. 196
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English
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"A seminal voice in American prose poetry from the sixties onward, Russell Edson's whole career is surveyed in a single volume edited for our times, presenting a new and contemporary view of a poet of startling imagination and strangeness"--
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"'Darkness Spoken' collects Ingeborg Bachmann's two celebrated books of poetry, as well as the early and late poems not collected in book form. This edition also contains 129 poems released from Bachmann's archives that have never before been translated. Twenty-five of these poems also appear in German in this bilingual edition for the first time anywhere, making 'Darkness Spoken' the most complete volume of her poetry in English and German. Born...
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"Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years in [this book]. [This] volume represents the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities-- with varying styles, voices, themes, and cultures-- while balancing important poems with vital periods of each poet. Featuring earlier works by Robert Frost, James Weldon Johnson, and Wallace...
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Best American poetry volume 18
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English
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This eagerly awaited volume in the celebrated Best American Poetry series reflects the latest developments and represents the last word in poetry today. Paul Muldoon, the distinguished poet and international literary eminence, has selected -- from a pool of several thousand published candidates -- the top seventy-five poems of the year. "The all-consuming interests of American poetry are the all-consuming interests of poetry all over, " writes Muldoon...