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  • Memory Rose into Threshold Speech

    The Collected Earlier Poetry

    by Paul Celan, Barbara Wiedmann ...
    Translated by Pierre Joris ...
    Memory Rose into Threshold Speech gathers the poet Paul Celan's first four books, written between 1952 and 1963, which established his reputation as the major post-World War II German-language poet.Celan, a Bukovinian Jew who lived through the Holocaust, created work that displays both great lyric power and an uncanny ability to pinpoint totalitarian cultural and political tendencies. His quest, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poasis II

    Selected Poems 2000–2024

    by Pierre Joris ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Poasis II gathers Joris's major poetic works from 2000 to 2024. These nomadically shape-shifting poems range widely across times, places, and cultures, addressing, for example, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster (in a quasi-opera libretto),the meditations of tenth-century revolutionary poet, sufi teacher, and thinker Mansur al-Hallaj, an homage to his old friend and collaborator Jerome Rothenberg ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Imperfect Fit

    Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950

    by Allen Fisher, Shamoon Zamir, Paige Mitchell ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950 is an expansive and incisive examination of the patterns of connectedness in contemporary art and poetry. Allen Fisher—a highly accomplished poet, painter, critic, and art historian as well as a key figure in the British poetry revival of the 1960s and 1970s—has a close and discerning connection to his ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Rilke's Book of Hours

    Love Poems to God

    by Anita Barrows ...
    **A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/WEST TRANSLATION AWARDThe 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original German text.**While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt ... Read more

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  • The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus

    A Dual Language Edition

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Stephen Mitchell ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial fascination. In Stephen Mitchell’s versions of ... Read more

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  • The Poetry of Rilke

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Journey into the heart of German poetry with this bilingual collection of work from one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.Experience a deep dive into the mesmerizing world of one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century with The Poetry of Rilke. Uncover an unparalleled collection of Rilke's finest works, elegantly translated over the course of two decades by acclaimed scholar ... Read more

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  • Duino Elegies

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by David Young ...
    One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German.We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rilke was staying at a castle (Duino) on the sea near Trieste. One morning he walked out on the battlements and climbed down to where the rocks dropped sharply to the sea. From ... Read more

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