Italian Poetry, 1960-1980: from Neo to Post Avant-garde
Invisible City / Red Hill Press, 1982. Trade Paperback. Very minor edgewear. Textblock clean. More
Invisible City / Red Hill Press, 1982. Trade Paperback. Very minor edgewear. Textblock clean. More
Four Way Books, April 2009. Trade Paperback. The finely-sculpted poems of The Currency animate the world of art and architecture, from Caravaggio and Frank Gehry to the contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan and the filmmaker Jean-Pierre Limosin. Exploring such works of art for how they lead us to pause for thought..... More
Contra Mundum Press, October 2020. Paper Back. In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that "would be a bit more sober & more spacious" than his poems. And yet, in his life-time Celan published very little of such "more spacious" work -- i.e. prose..... More
Seagull Books, August 2010. Hardcover. Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of post-World War II German literature's most..... More
Sheep Meadow Pr. Paper Back. Here are the letters between Nelly Sachs (1891 - 1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920 - 1970). Their correspondence lasted from 1954 until Celan's death by suicide. Sachs died the day Celan was buried..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, April 2009. Trade Paperback. Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud as one of the most influential poets of late nineteenth-century France. Remarkable not only for his exquisitely crafted verse, Verlaine is also the poet of strong emotions and appetites, with an unrivalled gift for the..... More
Lb May & Assoc Inc, January 1998. Trade Paperback. With an Introduction by Paul Wright. 'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today..... More
New Directions, June 1964. Trade Paperback. It begins with the poetry (French and English en face), including such masterpieces as "Le Cimetiere Marin" and portions of "La Jeune Parque"; then ranges through Valéry's work in fields as various as architecture, logic, the dance, literature, philosophy, and painting. It concludes with..... More
Red Hill Press, January 1971. First Edition. Pamphlet. {6 & 3/4' x 8 & 1/2'} Pamphlet with two staples along the fold. Tanned at spine. An addition splash of damp staining middle of spine and extended outward on both front and rear cover. Bilingual: in Italian & English. More
Red Hill Press, January 1975. Paper Back. {5 & 3/8' x 4 & 1/4'} Oblong 16mo. Ash cardstock cover with black lettering. Spine is sun lightened. Flaking and lightened splotches. Top edge of front cover has segment of chipping, possible silverfish damage. In English & Italian. More
Princeton University Press, July 1989. Paper Back. All of Valery's major meditations on the theory and practice of poetry are included in this volume. T.S. Eliot writes in his introduction that Valery "invented, and was to impose on his age . . . a new conception of the poet." In..... More
Univ of Missouri Pr, January 1982. Paper Back. Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Previous seller price sticker present at front cover upper right corner; Previous owner initials present at half title; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Humanities Pr, January 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very minor shelf wear on the jacket. Previous owners name on the front free endpaper. More
Oxford University Press / Galaxy, January 1967. First Thus. Paper Back. First Oxford/Galaxy paperback edition. Octavo with moderate wear to edges and corners. Previous owner's name written in ink on half title page. Sticker residue on verso of front cover. [524 pages plus five page list of Oxford/Galaxy titles then..... More
Chelsea House Publications. Paper Back. - Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world--from the English medievalists to contemporary writers- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom. More
Prentice Hall, January 1963. Trade Paperback. More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 1996. Paper Back. "In the midst of our worst century so far we have produced a great poet." Those words by Elizabeth Bishop, a friend of Robert Lowell and a great poet in her own right, ring ever truer almost two decades after Lowell's..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1979. Mass Market PaperBack. More