Selected And Last Poems

Author : Odysseas Elytēs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eros, Eros, Eros written by Odysseas Elytēs and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olga Broumas has chosen poems from the full range of Odysseas Elytis's Nobel Prize-winning poetry, including his early work when he was associated with the Surrealists, to the entirety of his long poem The Little Mariner, as well as a previously unavailable selection of his last poems, written shortly before his death in 1996. Elytis himself offers the best description of his work: If a separate personal Paradise exists for each of us, mine must be irreparably planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of the truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying eros, eros, eros.

Author : Czeslaw Milosz
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141392312
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004 written by Czeslaw Milosz and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection brings together the most beautiful and powerful of Czeslaw Milosz's poems, spanning his writing life. In verses such as 'Café' he considers the upheaval, revolutions and two world wars that he had witnessed, while 'My Faithful Mother Tongue' reflects the loyalty he felt to his native Polish language. He also remembers his schooldays in 'The World', and in 'Bypassing Rue Descartes' recalls the Paris streets of his student years, displaying both tenderness and tough-minded fury towards those who shaped his experiences. Writing not about abstract emotions, but about the horrors and beauty that he directly observed, Milosz opens our eyes to the joy-bringing potential of the poetry to which he gave his life. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Author : Wisława Szymborska
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544126025
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Map written by Wisława Szymborska and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects translations of poems from throughout the author's career, including several new translations, including her entire final collection in English for the first time.

Author : Patrick Rosal
Publisher : Persea Books
ISBN 13 : 9780892555680
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Thing written by Patrick Rosal and published by Persea Books. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A momentous collection from the author of Brooklyn Antediluvian, winner of the 2017 Lenore Marshall Prize from Academy of American Poets For nearly two decades, Patrick Rosal has been one of the most beloved and admired poets in the United States, bringing together the most dynamic aspects of literary and performance poetry. The son of Filipino immigrants (his father was a lapsed Catholic priest), he has made a life of bridging worlds—literary, ethnic, national, spiritual—through his poetry, and has been recognized with some of the highest honors and countless devoted readers. The Last Thing: New & Selected Poems, gives us a substantial playlist of new work—hard-hitting and big-hearted—along with ample selections from his first four books. Bursting with music, infused with love and awe, this is essential reading from a poet of vigor and conscience.

Author : Stanley Kunitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393316155
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passing Through written by Stanley Kunitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Touch Me," the last poem in the collection, Kunitz propounds a question, "What makes the engine go?" and gives us his answer: "Desire, desire, desire." These poems fairly hum with the energy, the excitement, the ardor, that make Kunitz one of our most enduring and highly honored poets. In the words of Carolyn Forch , "he is a living treasure."

Author : Denise Levertov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811214582
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Great Unknowing written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Denise Levertov died on December 20, 1997, she left behind forty finished poems, which now form her last collection, This Great Unknowing.

Author : Paul Celan
Publisher : San Francisco : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865472235
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Poems written by Paul Celan and published by San Francisco : North Point Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an introduction to the German poet's life and work and presents in English translation and the original German, his poems about consciousness, mortality, and love

Author : Friedrich Hölderlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789491780066
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems and Letters written by Friedrich Hölderlin and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Translated by Christopher Middleton. Although he received little recognition during his lifetime, Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) has come to be considered one of Europe's greatest poets. His visionary work--at once local and cosmic--has influenced such figures as Rilke, Heidegger, Celan, and Cixous. This bilingual volume contains translations of thirty-one poems and fourteen letters, as well as an Introduction, Notes, and commentary by the highly regarded poet and translator Christopher Middleton. "This is an extraordinarily rich and powerful selected assemblage of Hölderlin's writings--poems and also letters--bilingual and translated with intense inwardness, situated by accompanying commentary and discussion in both the historical contingency of the poet's Lebenswelt and at the same time in his passional spirit-thinking as it evolves and informs his poetical experiments. There have been many previous versions into English of the most celebrated of these poems, but these here come unmistakably from the imaginative intelligence of another strenuously original poet, at exceedingly close connection with Hölderlin's wrestle with language, its upward reach into the fleeting semi-permanence of the divine presences and its probing downwards into the Germanistic roots of a language-culture at this time in historical and political turbulence. Middleton's full and thorough-going Introduction pre-empts earlier (and later) translation dalliance with spirit-fancy by his rigorous and persistent precision."--J.H. Prynne

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780061923067
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Till I End My Song written by Harold Bloom and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Till I End My Song, Harold Bloom, the foremost literary critic of our time, has culled a delightful anthology of the final works from one hundred of the greatest, most influential poets throughout history. These poems, sometimes the literal end and at other times the imagined conclusion to a poetic career, offer a lens through which to contemplate the enduring nature of art and the inevitability of death. Poems by T. S. Eliot, Alexander Pope, W. B. Yeats, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Shakespeare are featured here, as are works from distinguished but long-neglected poets such as Conrad Aiken, William Cowper, Edwin Arlington Robinson, George Meredith, and Louis MacNeice. An authoritative collection, Till I End My Song will reverberate long into the coming silence.

Author : James Tate
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062914731
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Government Lake written by James Tate and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning, startling collection that is also the last work from a major poet A woman named Mildred starts laying eggs after feathers from wild poultry begin coming down the chimney. A man becomes friends with a bank robber who abducts him and eventually rues his captor’s death. A baby is born transparent. James Tate’s work, filled with unexpected turns and deadpan exaggeration, “fanciful and grave, mundane and transcendent,” (New York Times) has been among the most defining and significant of our time. In his last collection before his death in 2015, Tate’s dark yet whimsical humor, his emotional acuity, and his keen ear for the absurd are on full display in prose poems that finely constructed and lyrical, surrealistic and provocative. With The Government Lake, James Tate reminds us why he is one of the great poets of our age and one of the true masters of the form.