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The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Transtromer Publisher Comments 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 Tomas Transtromer has had a profound influence around the world, an influence that has steadily grown and has... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper 
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C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems by C P Cavafy Publisher Comments An extraordinary literary event: the simultaneous publication of a brilliant and vivid new rendering of C. P. Cavafy’s Collected Poems and the first-ever English translation of the poet’s thirty Unfinished Poems, both featuring the fullest... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Wislawa Szymborska Publisher Comments From one of Europes most prominent and celebrated poets, a collection remarkable for its graceful lyricism. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, Szymborska documents lifes improbability as well as its transient beauty to capture the wonder... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems by Yehuda Amichai Publisher Comments Bilingual edition, with translations by Assia Gutmann, Harold Schimmel, Chana Bloch, Y.A. & Ted Hughes, David Rosenberg, et al. A new printing of this large collection by the poet commonly regarded as Israel's most prominent and one of the major... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy Publisher Comments Winner of the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award 1993 In her fourth collection, Mean Time', Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Collected Poetry by Aime Cesaire Publisher Comments This edition, containing an extensive introduction, notes, the French original, and a new translation of Césaire's poetry--the complex and challenging later works as well as the famous Notebook--will remain the definitive Césaire in... (read more) Your price: $37.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda Publisher Comments 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 U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems (Penguin Classics) by Cesar Vallejo Publisher Comments A major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet's work Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry by J. D. McClatchy Publisher Comments This groundbreaking volume may well be the poetry anthology for the global village. As selected by J.D. McClatchy, this collection includes masterpieces from four continents and more than two dozen languages in translations by such distinguished poets as... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke Publisher Comments "This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lannan Translations Selection #10: The Clean Shirt of It by Paulo Henriq Britto Publisher Comments The Clean Shirt of Itmarks the first English translation of a full-length poetry title by acclaimed Brazilian poet Paulo Henriques Britto. As translator Idra Novey writes in her introduction, "No other contemporary Brazilian poets write like Britto. At... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems by Paul Schmidt Publisher Comments In the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St. Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians, a place to meet, drink, read, brawl, celebrate, and stage performances of all kinds. It has since become a symbol of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Butterfly's Burden (06 Edition) by Darwish Publisher Comments “Mahmoud Darwish is the Essential Breath of the Palestinian people, the eloquent witness of exile and belonging, exquisitely tuned singer of images that invoke, link, and shine a brilliant light into the world’s whole heart. What he speaks... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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They Carry a Promise: Selected Poems by Janusz Szuber Publisher Comments This bracing collection marks the first appearance in English of the Polish poet Janusz Szuber, hailed as the greatest discovery in Polish poetry of the late twentieth century when, in his late forties, he began publishing the work hed been producing for... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Collected Poems 1920 1954 Bilingual Edition by Eugenio Montale Publisher Comments Winner of the Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the Premio Montale, an acclaimed translation of Italy's greatest modern poet Eugenio Montale is universally recognized as having brought the great Italian lyric tradition that begins with Dante into the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gitanjali: A Collection of Idian Poems by the Nobel Laureate by Rabindranath Tagore Publisher Comments An illuminating collection of inspirational poems by a Nobel Laureate While traveling through one of the poorest regions in India, W. B. Yeats was amazed to discover the women in the tea fields singing the songs and poems of Rabindranath Tagore. This... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Contemporary Russian Poetry: An Anthology by Kates Bunimovich List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Idanre & Other Poems by Wole Soyinka Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Songs for Tomorrow: Poems 1961-2001 (Green Integer) by Ko Un Publisher Comments Recognized as the greatest living Korean poet, Ko Un has produced a vast amount of poetry over the years, including the noted collection Ten Thousand Lives, previously published by Green Integer. This new volume selects work from Ko Un’s entire... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Essential Poems and Writings of Joyce Mansour by Ruxandra Cesereanu Synopsis The first comprehensive anthology in English of one of Romania's most important and exciting young poets. With some nine volumes of poetry, five books of fiction, and a number of selected essays published in Romania and Europe, Andrei Codrescu in his... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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