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Walk on the Wild Side : Urban American Poetry since 1975
ISBN: 9780020427254 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Walk on the Wild Side", the first anthology to plumb the maze of American urban life, gives us the city in all its forms: ethnic, economic, religious, political, sexual, intellectual. Poet and novelist Nicholas Christopher has chosen 115 poems from sixty poets, representing more than twenty cities. These are not just poems "about" cities, or with the city as subject; they filter and radiate the diversity and vitality of today's cities, from the electric night of New York to the sun-blanked sprawl of Los Angeles, from the factories of Pittsburgh to the waterfront of New Orleans. A kinetic mix...
"Walk on the Wild Side", the first anthology to plumb the maze of American urban life, gives us the city in all its forms: ethnic, economic, religious...
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71,16 zł |
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The Best Poems of the English Language : From Chaucer Through Robert Frost
ISBN: 9780060540425 / Angielski / Miękka / 972 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book features a large introductory essay by Harold Bloom called "The Art of Reading Poetry," which presents his critical reflections of more than half a century devoted to the reading, teaching, and writing about the literary achievement he loves most. In the case of all major poets in the language, this volume offers either the entire range of what is most valuable in their work, or vital selections that illuminate each figure′s contribution. There... This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book features... |
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90,85 zł |
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The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations
ISBN: 9780060575861 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The astonishing collection of the translations Robert Bly has been producing for more than fifty years, introducing foreign poets to American readers for the first time. Robert Bly has always been amazingly prescient in his choice of poets to translate. The poetry he selected supplied qualities that seemed lacking from the literary culture of this country. At a time when editors and readers knew only Eliot and Pound, Bly introduced Neruda, Vallejo, Trakl, Jimenez, Trastromer, and Rumi. His most recent translations include Rolf Jacobsen, Francis Ponge, and the... The astonishing collection of the translations Robert Bly has been producing for more than fifty years, introducing foreign poets to American r... |
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67,41 zł |
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The Poetry of Our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry
ISBN: 9780060951931 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Here is a capacious and sparkling gathering of poems, an anthology that extends its reach from the English-speaking world to Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America. This unique volume includes such well-known figures as Pablo Neruda, Anna Akhmatova, Paul Celan, Seamus Heaney, Wole Soyinka, and Elizabeth Bishop but also offers the less familiar but equally welcome voices of Ugandan Okot p'Bitek, Indian A.K. Ramanujan, and the Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa. With insightful essays by such eminent scholars and poets as Helen Vendler, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Sven Birkerts, Carolyn Forche, and Bei...
Here is a capacious and sparkling gathering of poems, an anthology that extends its reach from the English-speaking world to Asia, Africa, Europe, and...
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75,22 zł |
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Beyond the Sea: Discovery
ISBN: 9781608804443 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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389,87 zł |
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Beyond the Sea: Homecoming
ISBN: 9781608804269 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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389,87 zł |
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Beyond the Sea: Renaissance
ISBN: 9781608804252 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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389,87 zł |
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Beyond the Sea: Escape
ISBN: 9781608804122 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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389,87 zł |
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English Romantic Verse
ISBN: 9780140421026 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence
Nearly all the famous pieces de resistance will be found here---Intimations of Immortality, - -The Ancient Mariner, - -The Tyger, - excerpts from Don Juan--s well as some less familiar poems. As muchas possible, the poets are arranged in chronological order, and their poems in order of composition, beginning with eighteenth-century precursors such as Gray, Cowper, Burns, and Chatterton. Naturally, most space has been given over to the major Romantics--Blake, Wordsworth,... English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence
Nearly all the famous pieces de resistanc... |
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60,76 zł |
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Renaissance Women Poets
ISBN: 9780140424096 / Angielski / Miękka / 409 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Social convention may have prevented Renaissance women writers from openly taking part in the political and religious debates of their day, but they found varied and innovative ways to intervene. Collecting the work of three great poets-Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney, and Aemilia Lanyer-this volume repositions women writers of the Renaissance by presenting their poems in the context of their history and culture.
Whitney's poems offer the only glimpse into her life, express a concern for women's lack of social and economic power, and powerfully evoke sixteenth-century London. Sidney... Social convention may have prevented Renaissance women writers from openly taking part in the political and religious debates of their day, but they f...
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65,74 zł |
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Poems
ISBN: 9780140442724 / Angielski / Miękka / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime heights in its descriptions of natural scenes and powerful emotions. His sheer escapism and joy is balanced by Tu Fu, who expresses the Confucian virtues of humanity and humility in more autobiographical works that are imbued with great compassion and earthy reality, and shot through with humour. Together these two poets of the T'ang dynasty...
Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary c...
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60,76 zł |
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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
ISBN: 9780141181905 / Angielski / Miękka / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflects the diverse experiences of those who lived through the war, bringing together the words of poets, soldiers, and civilians affected by the conflict. Here are famous verses by Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, and Wilfred Owen; poetry by women writing from the home front; and the anonymous lyrics of soldiers' songs. Arranged thematically, the selections take the reader through the war's stages, from conscription to its aftermath, and offer a blend...
Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflects t...
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45,82 zł |
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Love Poems from God : Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West
ISBN: 9780142196120 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Sacred poetry from twelve mystics and saints, rendered brilliantly by Daniel Ladinsky, beloved interpreter of verses by the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz
In this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinsky--best known for his gifted and bestselling interpretations of the great Sufi poet Hafiz--brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world's finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from the West. Once again Ladinsky reveals his talent for creating profound and playful renditions of classic poems for a modern audience. Rumi's joyous, ecstatic... Sacred poetry from twelve mystics and saints, rendered brilliantly by Daniel Ladinsky, beloved interpreter of verses by the fourteenth-century Pers...
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86,98 zł |
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Good Poems for Hard Times
ISBN: 9780143037675 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Chosen by Garison Keillor for his readings on public radio's The Writer's Almanac, the 185 poems in this follow-up to his acclaimed anthology Good Poems are perfect for our troubled times. Here, readers will find solace in works that are bracing and courageous, organized into such resonant headings as "Such As It Is More or Less" and "Let It Spill." From William Shakespeare and Walt Whitman to R. S. Gwynn and Jennifer Michael Hecht, the voices gathered in this collection will be more than welcome to those who've been struck by bad news, who are burdened by stress, or...
Chosen by Garison Keillor for his readings on public radio's The Writer's Almanac, the 185 poems in this follow-up to his acclaimed antholog...
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79,17 zł |
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Novemberland: Selected Poems 1956-1993
ISBN: 9780156003315 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. These fifty-four poems, spanning four decades, depict a landscape at once recognizably mundane and grotesquely surreal. Grass's spirited humor and linguistic creativity transcend the cant of political poetry. The German originals face the translation. Translated by Michael Hamburger. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
These fifty-four poems, spanning four decades, depict a landscape at once recognizably mundane and grotesquely surreal. Grass's spirited humor and lin...
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59,44 zł |
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A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry
ISBN: 9780156005746 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "A collection of 300 poems from writers around the world, selected and edited by Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz Czeslaw Milosz's A Book of Luminous Things--his personal selection of poems from the past and present--is a testament to the stunning varieties of human experience, offered up so that we may see the myriad ways that experience can be shared in words and images. Milosz provides a preface to each of these poems, divided into thematic (and often beguiling) sections, such as "Travel," "History," and "The Secret of a Thing," that make the reading as instructional as it is...
"A collection of 300 poems from writers around the world, selected and edited by Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz Czeslaw Milosz's A Book of Lu...
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67,41 zł |
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First Light: Mother and Son Poems: Mother & Son Poems: A Twentieth-Century American Selection
ISBN: 9780156311366 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The first anthology of its kind, bringing together a diverse selection of new and well-known modern American poets writing on the theme of mother-son relationships; with works by eighty poets, including Sylvia Plath, e. e. cummings, William Carlos Williams, and Langston Hughes.
The first anthology of its kind, bringing together a diverse selection of new and well-known modern American poets writing on the theme of mother-son ...
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59,44 zł |
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New and Collected Poems
ISBN: 9780156654913 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume represents virtually all of Wilbur s published poetry to date, including his six earlier collections, twenty-seven new poems, and a cantata. Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry.
" This volume represents virtually all of Wilbur s published poetry to date, including his six earlier collections, twenty-seven new poems, and a cantat...
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90,69 zł |
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A Book of Love Poetry
ISBN: 9780195042320 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the civilization of the Lower Nile to that of the Lower Hudson, more poets have written more convincingly, more poignantly about love than about any other subject. Jon Stallworthy has here selected some of the most moving, funny, shameless, and erotic love poems in the English language. Representing the work of more than 190 poets, from Sappho to Byron and Browning, from Rossetti to Wordsworth and E.E. Cummings, he offers a startling collection of love poetry down through the ages. Arranged thematically, beginning with the first drawings of young love and ending with the "long look back"...
From the civilization of the Lower Nile to that of the Lower Hudson, more poets have written more convincingly, more poignantly about love than about ...
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79,13 zł |
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Contemporary East European Poetry : An Anthology
ISBN: 9780195086362 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Providing a unique window into a poetic tradition little known and little understood in the West, Contemporary East European Poetry features one hundred and thirty poets from ten countries, with works translated from fifteen languages. Emery George, himself a distinguished poet and translator, here brings together over five hundred poems expertly rendered into beautiful, English verse by ninety translators, often working in collaboration with the original author. Represented are poets from many walks of life, contrasting religious and political outlooks, those working at home and in exile,...
Providing a unique window into a poetic tradition little known and little understood in the West, Contemporary East European Poetry features one hundr...
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253,38 zł |