NYRB Poets - Böcker

Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely recognized beyond Latin America. Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo's poetry to appear in Eng...

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Alexander Vvedensky, co-founder with the poet Daniil Kharms of OBERIU, a small avant-garde collective in late-1920s Soviet Leningrad, is the least known of major Russian twentieth-century poets. He stands apart like a dark star in a constellation ...

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In The Interior Landscape the great Indian poet and translator A.K. Ramanujan has drawn on a celebrated anthology of classical Tamil poetry to compose an unforgettable sequence of love poems. The story unfolds in a series of dramatic exchanges bet...

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Pierre Reverdy, who was close to Picasso and Braque and was enormously admired by the surrealists, is one the greatest of modern French poets and one of the most elusive. His work is at once impersonal and intimate, crystalline and opaque, simplic...

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Nothing More to Lose is the first collection of poems by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish to appear in English. Hailed across the Arab world and beyond, Darwish's poetry walks the razor's edge between despair and resistance, between dark humor and ...

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Louise Labe, one of the most original poets of the French Renaissance, published her complete Works around the age of thirty and then disappeared from history. Rediscovered in the nineteenth century, her incandescent love sonnets were later transl...

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Modernist poet Sakutaro Hagiwara's first published book, Howling at the Moon, shattered conventional verse forms and transformed the poetic landscape of Japan. Two of its poems were removed on order of the Ministry of the Interior for "distur...

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"Drum-Taps" was written during the Civil War, "put together," as Whitman wrote to a friend, "by fits and starts, on the field, in hospitals as I worked with the soldier boys." As soon as the war ended in 1865, Whitman...

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Called by Susan Howe one of the most outstanding poets of her generation, the American poet Elizabeth Willis has written some of the most luminous, electrifyingly lyrical poems of the past twenty years. This collection includes work from her five ...

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Peer to Gabriel García Marquez and Octavio Paz, Álvaro Mutis is indisputably one of the greatest Latin American authors of the 20th century and this collection brings together the best of Mutis' largely-unknown body of poetry. Álvaro Mutis is cele...

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Zone is the fruit of poet-translator Ron Padgett's fifty-year engagement with the work of France's greatest modern poet. This bilingual edition of Apollinaire's poetry represents the full range of his achievement from traditional lyric verse to th...

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J. H. Prynne is Britain's leading late-modernist poet. His work, as it has emerged since the 1960s, when he was close to Charles Olson and Edward Dorn, is marked by a remarkable combination of lyricism and abstraction, at once austere and playful....

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A new collection from one of the most exciting voices in American poetry. For many years, Melissa Monroe has been assembling one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary American poetry, drawing on all different kinds of writing, fro...

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An indispensible classic of French poetry, this is a new translation Breton and Soupault's experiment with automatic writing, also the first known work of literary Surrealism. This edition includes the original French text. In the spring of 1919, ...

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Out of print for decades, this is the legendary American poet's tribute to Federico García Lorca, including translations of the great Spanish poet's work. "Frankly I was quite surprised when Mr. Spicer asked me to write the introduction to th...

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A much-anticpated follow-up to Nothing More to Lose , this is only the second poetry collection translated into English from a vital voice of the Arab world. From a foremost contemporary Arab poet comes a book of deep poetic sensitivity, power, wi...

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An epic, single-poem tribute to the spirit of women, this is the first complete and final translation of the great Mexican poet's magnum opus. Forty-three years in the making, Migrations is considered by critics to be a masterpiece of modern Mexic...

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A moving, posthumous collection of elegies and eclogues that meditate on nature, landscape, and history, by a great Hungarian poet. Szilárd Borbély's is one of the most searching and powerful poetic voices to emerge in the twenty-first century. In...

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Valmiki's Ramayana provides the inspiration for this vibrant collection of poems, each of which acts as a persuasive encounter between English poetry and Indian myth. After is a collection of poems inspired by Valmiki's Ramayana, one of Asia's fou...

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A new, bilingual collection of poetry by a pioneering, multi-talented Chinese writer and photographer in a landmark English translation. "My poems are flecks of salt clinging ambivalently to a horse's back," Wang Yin writes. Selected Poe...

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A new translation of the best and most provocative work by France's infamous rebel poet. The short, astonishingly precocious, uncompromisingly rebellious, ultimately disastrous career of the poet Arthur Rimbaud is one of the legends of modern lite...

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A new translation of work by one of the Netherland's most innovative, exhilarating poets, a poet who draws on everything from economics to parables to world history. The Dutch poet Nachoem Wijnberg is one of the most inventive, surprising, enterta...

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Poems between natural and human history, private life and death, and about the crises of our century, from an acclaimed Italian poet. In this prize-winning new book of poems, Historiae, the celebrated Italian poet Antonella Anedda speaks to many c...

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