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Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780143037798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. One of his generation's most accomplished poets, Robert Wrigley is renowned for his ironic, powerful, and lucid style as well as his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Earthly Meditations features nineteen original poems alongside a collection of sixty-one poems chosen from his first six books.
One of his generation's most accomplished poets, Robert Wrigley is renowned for his ironic, powerful, and lucid style as well as his ability to fuse n...
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92,23 |
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One Hidden Stuff
ISBN: 9780143037859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Using long-lined, imaginative leaps to connect the everyday with the miraculous, the intimate with the visionary, Barbara Ras's poems surge across the page like waves crashing on a beach. She crafts the forty-one new poems in this collection with a zany and spacious cunning that reaches from family to community, from what's cherished to what's lost, from culture to nature.
Using long-lined, imaginative leaps to connect the everyday with the miraculous, the intimate with the visionary, Barbara Ras's poems surge across the...
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92,23 |
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Circadian
ISBN: 9780143038849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 67 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A beautiful new collection from an acclaimed poet
The poems in Joanna Klink's new collection Circadian take as their guiding vision circadian clocks. Moved by the presence and withdrawal of light, these internal clocks influence rhythms of sleeping and waking: the opening and closing of flowers, the speed at which the heart pumps blood, the migratory cycles of birds. With love poems and prayers, Joanna Klink offers us patterns of glowing alertness and shared life, patterns that speak to the flickering circuit between inner and outer landscapes, that bind each beating heart... A beautiful new collection from an acclaimed poet
The poems in Joanna Klink's new collection Circadian take as their guiding vision... |
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92,23 |
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Selected Poems of Herman Melville
ISBN: 9780143039037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. While best known for such novels as his monumental Moby-Dick, Herman Melville was also an extraordinarily gifted poet. This is the most complete anthology of Melville's poetry ever published in a single volume. It features a large selection from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, along with Melville's own notes and prose supplement; cantos from all four books of Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land; selections from Melville's later books, Timoleon, John Marr and Other Sailors, and Weeds and Wildings, Chiefly, with a Rose or Two;...
While best known for such novels as his monumental Moby-Dick, Herman Melville was also an extraordinarily gifted poet. This is the most complet...
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80,70 |
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The Poems of Marianne Moore
ISBN: 9780143039082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This complete collection of Moore's poetry, lovingly edited by prize-winning poet Grace Schulman, for the first time gathers together all of Moore's poems, including more than a hundred that were previously uncollected and unpublished. This long-awaited volume will reveal to Moore's admirers the scope of her poetic voice and will introduce new generations of readers to her extraordinary achievement.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global... This complete collection of Moore's poetry, lovingly edited by prize-winning poet Grace Schulman, for the first time gathers together all of Moore's p...
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115,29 |
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Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
ISBN: 9780143039273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A deluxe edition of Whitman's crowning achievement, with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Throughout his great career, Whitman continuously revised, expanded, and republished... A deluxe edition of Whitman's crowning achievement, with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, A... |
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69,17 |
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Selected Writings (Dario, Ruben)
ISBN: 9780143039365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Born in Nicaragua, Ruben Dario is known as the consummate leader of the Modernista movement, an esthetic trend that swept the Americas from Mexico to Argentina at the end of the nineteenth century. Seeking a language and a style that would distinguish the newly emergent nations from the old imperial power of Spain, Dario's writing offered a refreshingly new vision of the world--an artistic sensibility at once cosmopolitan and connected to the rhythms of nature. The first part of this collection presents Dario's most significant poems in a bilingual format and organized thematically in the way...
Born in Nicaragua, Ruben Dario is known as the consummate leader of the Modernista movement, an esthetic trend that swept the Americas from Mexico to ...
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103,76 |
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A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780143039556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The poetry of ?the greatest twentieth century writer you have never heard of ? ("Los Angeles Times")
Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, Fernando Pessoa left a prodigious body of work, much of it under ?heteronyms fully fleshed alter egos with startlingly different styles and points of view. Offering a unique sampling of all his most famous voices, this collection features poems that have never before been translated alongside many originally composed in English. In addition to such major works as ?Maritime Ode of Campos? and his Goethe-inspired "Faust," written in... The poetry of ?the greatest twentieth century writer you have never heard of ? ("Los Angeles Times")
Writing obsessively in French, English, and ... |
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75,98 |
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual-Language Edition
ISBN: 9780143039969 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2007 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The most popular work by Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, soon to be the subject of Pablo Larrain's acclaimed feature film Neruda starring Gael Garcia Bernal When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition with an introduction by Cristina Garcia, this book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the world. For more than...
The most popular work by Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, soon to be the subject of Pablo Larrain's acclaimed feature film Neruda starring ...
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53,80 |
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Twelve Angry Men
ISBN: 9780143104407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival--featuring an introduction by David Mamet
A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their... A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival--featuring an introduction by David Mamet
A blistering cha... |
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57,65 |
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Complete Poems and Translations
ISBN: 9780143104957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The essential lyric works of the great Elizabethan playwright--newly revised and updated Though best known for his plays--and for courting danger as a homosexual, a spy, and an outspoken atheist--Christopher Marlowe was also an accomplished and celebrated poet. This long-awaited updated and revised edition of his poems and translations contains his complete lyric works--from his translations of Ovidian elegies to his most famous poem, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," to the impressive epic mythological poem "Hero and Leander." For more than seventy years, Penguin has...
The essential lyric works of the great Elizabethan playwright--newly revised and updated Though best known for his plays--and for courting...
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73,02 |
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Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems: Parallel Text Edition
ISBN: 9780143105305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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 endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles the avant- garde poet's politics head-on in an enlightening new introduction that places Vallejo in his proper literary context, while Margaret Sayers Peden's new translation does full justice to Vallejo's complex literary style. Including Spanish and English versions of... 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 cen... |
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76,86 |
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Nervous Systems
ISBN: 9780143111993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Selected for the 2006 National Poetry Series by August Kleinzahler
William Stobbas poems attend calmly to a dynamic world. Nature, family, and friends are among the shifting systems where Stobb finds poems. His fluency in a variety of formsafrom the measured tenderness of Jay Meek to the oceanic surrealism of Donald Revellaenacts the tension between order and entropy in the physical world we live in. aStobb has nerve, talent, and engages this madly accelerating, and often nearly indecipherable, world in whatas called real time, a writes August Kleinzahler, aand he manages it without... Selected for the 2006 National Poetry Series by August Kleinzahler
William Stobbas poems attend calmly to a dynamic world. Nature, family, and fr... |
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84,55 |
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In the Pines
ISBN: 9780143112549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A bold and strikingly original new work from one of America's greatest living poets
Alice Notley is considered by many to be among the most outstanding of living American poets. Notley's work has always been highly narrative, and her new book mixes short lyrics with long, expansive lines of poetry that often take the form of prose sentences, in an effort "to change writing completely." The title piece, a folksong-like lament, makes a unified tale out of many stories of many people; the middle section, "The Black Trailor," is a compilation of noir fictions and reflections; while... A bold and strikingly original new work from one of America's greatest living poets
Alice Notley is considered by many to be among the mos... |
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92,23 |
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Backwards Days
ISBN: 9780143112556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Another set of antidotal lyrics and story-poems from Stuart Dischell
Sly, comic, inventive, and exuberant, the brokenhearted lyrics and dark parables of "Backwards Days" are cast in the spirit and craft Stuart Dischell's poetry is known for. In this, his fourth full-length collection, he revs up both music and experience and writes startling poems of emotional intensity that chronicle the restlessness of desire. Sometimes grim, ever buoyant and hopeful, even in the most sorrowful or macabre situations, the poems of "Backwards Days" are most particularly about the movement of time,... Another set of antidotal lyrics and story-poems from Stuart Dischell
Sly, comic, inventive, and exuberant, the brokenhearted lyrics and dark para... |
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84,55 |
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The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine
ISBN: 9780143113331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An unconventional new collection from a National Poetry Series award winner
Mark Yakich 's acclaimed debut collection, Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross, examined the blessing and curse of romantic love in its multiplicities. The poems in his new collection approach questions of suffering and atrocity (e.g., war, genocide, fallen souffles) with discerning humor and unconventional comedy. These poems show how humor can be taken as seriously as straight-ahead solemnity and how we can re-envision solemnity in terms other than lamentation, protest, and... An unconventional new collection from a National Poetry Series award winner
Mark Yakich 's acclaimed debut collection, Unrelated Indivi... |
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103,76 |
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The Iliad and The Odyssey Boxed Set: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
ISBN: 9780147712554 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 1264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If The Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume...
Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skil...
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149,88 |
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The Iron Tonic: Or, a Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley
ISBN: 9780151004379 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It's difficult to say what The Iron Tonic is about, although it is "known the skating pond conceals a family of enormous eels," and that "the light is fading from the day. The rest is darkness and dismay." Finally, though, The Iron Tonic could be seen as Edward Gorey's version of a winter afternoon in one of the great Russian novels of the nineteenth century.
It's difficult to say what The Iron Tonic is about, although it is "known the skating pond conceals a family of enormous eels," and that "the l...
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57,65 |
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
ISBN: 9780151686568 / Angielski / Twarda / 1982 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Eliot's famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This edition features pen-and-ink drolleries by Edward Gorey throughout.
Eliot's famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This edition features pen-and-ink dro...
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92,23 |
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White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems
ISBN: 9780156001205 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In her first collection since winning the National Book Award in 1993, Mary Oliver writes of the silky bonds between every person and the natural world, of the delight of writing, of the value of silence. " Her] poems are...as genuine, moving and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring" (New York Times).
In her first collection since winning the National Book Award in 1993, Mary Oliver writes of the silky bonds between every person and the natural worl...
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61,49 |