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tr. Laurence Lerner, publ. Everyman's Poetry - 98pp. pb
A collection of many of Baudelaire's most popular poems, splendidly translated by Laurence Lerner, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. This series is superb value!

Baudelaire
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2.00

tr. Walter Martin, publ. Carcanet Press. Bilingual - 447pp. pb
An excellent new translation (publ. 1997) of all Baudelaire's poetry, excluding only juvenilia, occasional verse and work of doubtful attribution.

Charles Baudelaire - Complete Poems

14.95

ed. Carol Clark & Robert Sykes, publ. Penguin Classics - 267pp. pb
This new (1997) Penguin series "Poets in Translation" offers the best translations in English, through the centuries, of the major Classical and European poets.

Baudelaire in English
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9.99

prose tr. Carol Clark, publ. Penguin Classics. Bilingual - 229pp. pb
"Baudelaire is indeed the greatest exemplar of modern poetry in any language." (T.S.Eliot) With introduction, notes and prose translation by Carol Clark, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.

Charles Baudelaire - Selected Poems
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6.99

ed. Marthiel & Jackson Mathews, publ. New Directions Publ. Corp. Bilingual - 448pp. pb
In compiling their classic, bilingual edition of The Flowers of Evil, the late Marthiel and Jackson Mathews chose from the work of forty-one translators to create a collection that is "a commentary on the present state of the art of translation". The Mathews' volume is a poets' homage to Baudelaire as well."

Charles Baudelaire - The Flowers of Evil
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14.10

tr. Louise Varèse, publ. New Directions Publ. Corp. Bilingual - 118pp. pb
This series of prose poems was composed between 1855 and the death of the poet in 1867. Lewis Piaget Shanks calls Paris Spleen "the final expression of the poet's vision of the world, of his melancholia, his idealism, his desperate desire to flee from the prison of his subjectivity, his furious longing to find some escape from the ugliness of modern life. They are the center of his work: absolutely devoid of pose, they explain all the rest of it."

Baudelaire - Paris Spleen
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6.35

tr. Christopher Pilling, publ. Flambard Press. Bilingual - 96pp. pb
Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.
Love. Desire. Eroticism. "In these poems woman and the outside world merge into one", Lucien Becker said of poems that were to form the nucleus of his 1954 collection "Plein amour". In this translation of that collection, love and woman are central, as are the villages and countryside of Lorraine. Becker's finest achievement, brought over into English for the first time by the poet Christopher Pilling.

BECKER, Lucien

Love at the full
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7.95

tr. Michael Smith, publ. Shearsman Books. Bilingual - 183pp. pb
"... Bécquer was one of Spain's most important 19th. century poets, and the instigator of a new Spanish version of Romanticism, influenced by German models, such as Heine. Born in Seville in 1836, the son of an artist, he lived only 34 years but in that time created a hugely influential body of verse ..." With an Introduction by Michael Smith and Luis Ingelmo.

BÉCQUER, Gustavo Adolfo

Collected Poems (Rimas)
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tr. David Hinton with Yanbing Chen, publ. Anvil Press. Bilingual - 103pp. pb
China's preeminent contemporary poet, Bei Dao was exiled from his homeland in 1989. He was recently elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. "Bei Dao's genius and his menace consist in a seamless merging of metaphor and politics; his is a guerilla battle fought at the level of language." (Nate Johnson, Chicago Tribune)

BEI DAO

Landscape Over Zero

8.95

BEOWULF
- a verse translation

BEOWULF
& the fight at Finnsburh

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tr. Louis J. Rodrigues, publ. Runetree Press. Bilingual - 179pp. pb
A new 'rendering' of this old epic poem, in parallel text with glossary and genealogies to help readers follow the intricate relationships which characterised heroic society.

10.50

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tr. Michael Alexander, publ. Penguin Classics - 137pp. pb
Michael Alexander's landmark modern English verse translation has been revised to take account of new readings and interpretations. His introduction discusses the central themes of Beowulf and its place among epic poems, the history of publication and reception, and issues of translation.

6.99

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BEOWULF
- bilingual edition

tr. Seamus Heaney, publ. Faber & Faber - 218pp. pb
"Now, for the first time, the Old English text - which survived only in a single scorched manuscript, now held in the British Museum - can be read in conjunction with the translation on facing pages. "Heaney's intelligence, fine ear and obvious love of the poem bring Beowulf alive as a melancholy masterpiece, a complex Christian-pagan lament for duty, glory, loss and transience. Heaney has done it (and us) a great service." (Claire Harman, Evening Standard)

12.99

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BERTOLUCCI, Attilio

Selected Poems
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tr. Charles Tomlinson, publ. Bloodaxe Books. Bilingual - 160pp. pb
Peter Levi calls this poet "one of the most interesting and sympathetic poets in Italian (in the 20th. century) ... exquisitely subtle poetry ... a translation of a master by a master."

8.95

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BETOCCHI, Carlo

Awakenings
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tr. Ned Condini, publ. Chelsea Editions. Bilingual - 223pp. pb
Betocchi's great poetry is still to be discovered: the place that has been assigned to it in the hierarchy of the Italian twentieth century in no way corresponds to its value." - Giovanni Raboni

US$20.00

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BONNEFOY, Yves

On the Motion and Immobility of Douve
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tr. Galway Kinnell, publ. Bloodaxe Books. Bilingual - 192pp. pb
Bonnefoy's concern with what separates language from an essential truth hidden in objects involves him in philosophical and theological investigations of the spiritual and the sacred. Introduced by Timothy Matthews.

7.95

ed. John Naughton & Anthony Rudolf , publ. Carcanet Press. Bilingual - 216pp. pb - Poetry Book Society Special Commendation for Translation.
Widely considered the most important and influential French poet since World War II, Bonnefoy was named to the Collège de France in 1981, the first poet honoured in this way since Paul Valéry. Spanning four decades and drawing on all his major collections, this selection provides a comprehensive overview and an ideal introduction to his work.

New and Selected Poems

trans. Anthony Rudolf , publ. MPT Books. Bilingual - 128pp.
Yves Bonnefoy is the most important and influential French poet since Francis Ponge and
René Char. Of Anthony Rudolf it has been said: "His translations of French poems are first-
rate, and could illuminate contemporary English poetic practice." (Robert Nye - The Times)
"... an excellent translator. Rudolf's versions (of Bonnefoy) are generally faultless, faithful
and rhythmically satisfying." (Stephen Romer - Times Literary Supplement)

Yesterday's Wilderness Kingdom
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8.95

tr. Eva Bourke, publ. Dedalus Press. Bilingual - 88pp. pb
Born 1926 and growing up in Alsace, Elisabeth Borchers' life spans some of the most traumatic years in European history. Like her literary contemporaries she believed that the only way to cleanse ] the German language of the corruption effected by Nazi propaganda was to keep the poem clear, undecorated and almost minimalist. She has become one of the most highly admired and loved of contemporary German poets.

BORCHERS, Elisabeth

Winter on White Paper
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6.95

tr. Dinah Livingstone, publ. Katabasis. Bilingual - 89pp. pb
This prose poem graphically conveys the tremendous dreams and enormous difficulties of the Sandanistas' struggle in the mountains and cities of Nicaragua until their victory in 1979.

BORGE, Tomás

Carlos, now the dawn's no fond illusion
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6.95

ed. Alexander Coleman, publ. Penguin Books. Bilingual - 484pp. pb
Selected from a lifetime's work, the poems explore themes that preoccupied Borges: the enigma of Time and history; the metaphysics of Schopenhauer and Berkeley; the cult of his ancestors and his 'mysterious habit called Buenos Aires'; and the imagery of morrors, mazes and swords. "One of the 20c most seductive and beguiling writers." (Daily Telegraph)

BORGES, Jorge Luis

Selected Poems
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tr. Roger Little, publ. Dedalus Press. Bilingual - 54pp. pb
Bosquet was a very prolific writer, and his stature as a poet is warranted by the fact that his translators include Samuel Beckett and Lawrence Durrell. These "Lost Quatrains" were originally discovered on the margins of his manuscripts and offer a fine outline of his main themes, obsessions and ironies.

BOSQUET, Alain

Lost Quatrains - Stances Perdues
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6.95

tr. Samuel Becket, Edouard Roditi, Alain Bosquet, Denise Levertov; publ. New Directions - 77pp. pb
"Reading this highly cultured and audacious poetry gave me great joy" (Thomas Mann) "They were poems written in a fraternal language that I could understand....You made yourself my friend, you have healed me from despair." (William Carlos Williams)

No matter no fact

8.90

tr. Hanne Bramness & Frances Presley, publ. Shearsman Books - 127pp. pb
"Ever since her rich Norwegian debut with Korrespondanse in 1983, ... Hanne Bramness has been focused both on her own poetry and that of others, and in such a way that one has to applaud when she is awarded such prizes for her work as the 1996 Norwegian Poetry Club Prize, and last year's Dobloug Prize." (Helge Torvund in a review of "Salt på oyet")

BRAMNESS, Hanne

Salt on the Eye
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tr. Dinah Livingstone, publ. Katabasis. Bilingual - 90pp. pb
María Eugenia Bravo Calderara was imprisoned and tortured in Chile during the coup that overthrew Allende in 1973. She writes: "From the beginning I wrote about reality, and because I was a witness I thought it was important to show reality as it was. For this reason I chose as a theme the private soldiers, who were in charge of us in the place where we were detained." Her poetry goes far beyond politics.

BRAVO CALDERARA, María Eugenia

Prayer in the National Stadium
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5.95

tr. Emanuele di Pasquale, publ. Chelsea Editions, 135 pp. pb -
Franco Buffoni lives in Rome. He is professor of literary criticism and comparative literature. Apart from writing many books of poetry, he is a journalist and editor of a literary review.

BUFFONI, Franco

Wings
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US$20.00

tr. Martin Sorrell, publ. Arc Publications. Bilingual - 121p. pb - Arc Visible Poets Series
"De Burine's images are the first thing that compels an English-speaking reader of these strange, passionate poems ... built almost entirely on imagery, where metaphor is poetic structure, and the freedom of the vision itself becomes a source of meaning. The legacy of the Surrealists is immediately apparent." (Susan Wicks)

BURINE, Claude de

Words have frozen over
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8.95

tr. Adria Bernardi, publ. Chelsea Editions. Bilingual - 283p. pb -
"In the preface, Gabriela Fantato uses two terms that seem very apt in describing Caddeo's poetry: lightness and wit. The first of these two is implied by the pecularity of the chosen theme, the second is suggested in the poet's capacity to set out the themes on a wide fan, replete with situations, metaphors, reflections, which, as we have seen, end up yielding a paradoxical substance to shadow." (Franco Romanò)

CADDEO, Rinaldo

Siren's Song
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USD.20.00

tr. Adrian Mitchell, publ. Oberon Books. 191p. pb
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) is one of the greatest playwrights of Spain's Golden Age. "Adrian Mitchell's translation into various verse forms is spectacular." (The Spectator) "(His) version of the multi-toned tragi-comedy is something of a revelation. For it shows that Calderón can be done into English with the kind of fluency (and fun) which we mught expect from our own Jacobean playwrights - and with a flavour all his own." (Daily Telegraph)

CALDERÓN, Pedro

"The Mayor of Zalamea", "Life's a Dream" & "The Great Theatre of the World"
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7.99

tr. Donald Gardner, publ. Arc Publications. 134p. pb
"Remco Campert published his first book of poetry at the age of twenty in 1951. He was the young star of the most self-aware and radical group of Dutch poets of the past century - the Vijftigers or 'Fifties' poets. With his subsequent poetry, fiction, humorous columns and performances he has become a household name in his own country. ... This is the first collection of his poetry to appear in the UK since 1968."

CAMPERT, Remco

"I Dreamed in the Cities at Night"
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9.99

tr. Michael Hulse & the poet, publ. Arc Publications. Bilingual - 116p. pb - Arc Visible Poets Series
"The poems of Cevat Çapan are in many ways paradoxical. They sound ancient and traditional, and yet they are recognisably related to modernism. They are rooted in Turkish life and literature and yet they are European, and beyond that, aware of a world literature which means something, and in which they have a place." (A.S.Byatt)

ÇAPAN, Cevat

Where are you, Susie Petschek?
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8.95

tr. Ned Condini, publ. Chelsea Editions. Bilingual - 256pp. pb
We discover in Caproni a singular voice and a distinctive poetry, whose appearances can be deceiving. Like Montale's, his is a poetry of the earth - notably the soil and rocks, as well as the light and air of Liguria - which is also ironic, dryly intellectual, and metaphysical. The surfaces of his poems can look simple, thanks to sharply etched imagery and a spare treatment of line and stanza that combine, at moments, to create an effect of sheer clarity. Yet the poems are often notable for their dense compression and their use of an intricate syntax ... A poet of robust passion and cool intellection, Caproni thrives on ambivalence, contradiction and counterpoint. Robert Hahn

CAPRONI, Giorgio

The Earth's Wall
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USD.15.00

tr. Dinah Livingstone, publ. Journeyman Press Ltd. - 96pp. pb
Most of the poems in this collection are about the new time, after the Revolution, when Cardenal was Minister of Culture - the joy, the work, the plans, the difficulties and the tremendous cost: a vision of heaven on earth and the threat of violent extinction.

CARDENAL, Ernesto

Nicaraguan New Time

3.95

tr. Dinah Livingstone, publ. Katabasis. Bilingual - 41pp. pb
This poem is part of a huge work of more than 500 pages called The Cosmic Canticle. It is Cardenal's major publication since the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1979, when he became Minister of Culture. He develops many of the themes that have long fascinated him: the science of matter and the cosmos; ... plant and animal life rhythms; love and attraction. All these contribute to the poem's dominant conception that 'matter is music'.

The Music of the Spheres
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4.50

tr. Christopher Pilling, publ. Arc Publications. Bilingual - 148pp. pb
Maurice Carême, along with Emile Verhaeren, is regarded as one of Belgium's master poets. Poems of his were set by Poulenc and Milhaud, and have been translated iinto many languages to feature in school anthologies."

CARÊME, Maurice

Defying Fate
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9.99

tr. J.L.Gili, publ. Anvil Press. Bilingual - 120pp. pb
...a masterpiece of modern Catalan poetry. Based on the biblical story of Jonah, it is essentially a Christian poem, though it is scathing about the effects of religious perversion. In the widest sense a poem about the limits of rationality... "Joan Gili's translation is itself a minor masterpiece... he has created a major poem in English for which there is no exact parallel in our language". (Arthur Terry)

CARNER, Josep

Nabí
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8.95

tr. various, ed. William Jay Smith, publ. Anvil Press - 158pp. pb
"Cassian's appetite for life is gargantuan... and in these award-winning translations... it is the grand, lyric sweep of her poems on love and memory which gives the reader the sensation of being in the company of a one-woman orchestra." (Carol Ann Duffy, Guardian)

CASSIAN, Nina

Life Sentence

8.95

tr. Timothy Adès, publ. Arc Publications - Bilingual. 107pp. pb
Arc Visible Poets Series
Jean Cassou wrote the 33 sonnets that form the first part of this collection in a Vichy prison in 1941/2, in the dark and committed to memory because he was denied writing materials. "Tim Adès has produced excellent versions which rhyme and scan if the originals do, and ... are also helpful interpretations, as well as keeping much of the magnificence that makes some of these poems striking." (Alistair Elliot)

CASSOU, Jean

33 Sonnets of the Resistance
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8.99

tr. Timothy Adès, publ. Agenda Editions - Bilingual. 108pp. pb
"Cassou, an important though still somewhat under-appreciated poet, has been extremely fortunate in having once again Timothy Adès to translate his work. Adès has the enviable gift of lyrical lucidity ..." (Harry Guest)

The Madness of Amadis
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9.99

tr. Michael Smith, publ. Shearsman Books - Bilingual. 131pp. pb
Shearsman Books
"Rosalía de Castro's work was consistently under-rated in her lifetime, at least in Castilian literary circles, and it is fair to say that she suffered because she was a woman poet, first and foremost, and also because whe was 'provincial', and because she wrote some of her most significant work in Galician. In the 20th. century her work was reappraised, by Lorca and Cernuda among others, and she is now recognised as a major writer in both languages."

CASTRO, Rosalía de

Selected Poems
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tr. Brian Cole, publ. Arc Publications. Bilingual - 84pp. pb
Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.
Arc Visible Poets Series
Susan Wicks writes: "Cattafi's poetry doesn't lead to obscurity... but to a kind of suggestive openness our own more explicit tradition sometimes undervalues... This collection presents itself simply, and is reader rather than scholar friendly."

CATTAFI, Bartolo

Anthracite
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7.95

tr. Rina Ferrarelli, publ. Chelsea Editions. Bilingual - 205pp.
"Cattafi has a firm place in the canon of contemporary Italian literature as a poet who spoke uncompromisingly in the post-war period about human illusions and delusions, hopes and betrayals. ... According to Ada de Alessandri, who was an interpreter of his work and also his wife, the journey that Cattafi undertook was always a spiritual quest."

Winter Fragments
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USD.15.00

tr. Humphrey Clucas, publ. Hippopotamus Press - 56pp. pb
Of Humphrey Clucas' first book of poems Harry Guest wrote: "He has a vivid awareness of history and a nice ability to make a moment or character stand out, excitingly ... These clear, hard-edged and genuinely illuminating poems are scholarly without being dry and evocative as well as accurate." These skills he has now brought to a selection and translation of Catullus.

CATULLUS

Versions of Catullus
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3.00

tr. Josephine Balmer, publ. Bloodaxe Books - 159pp. pb
Sensual, salacious and above all scandalous, the erotic verse of Catullus has delighted - and shocked - readers for centuries. Josephine Balmer's new translation of the complete shorter poems highlights both the intense lyricism and the scabrous wit of the original, bringing Catullus' vivid cast of characters back to life for a new audience.

Poems of Love and
Hate
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8.95

tr. Christopher Pilling, publ. Flambard Press - 153pp. pb
"Of all the major Latin poets of the first century BC, Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84-c.54) is the one who speaks most directly to the modern reader. For Tennyson, writing in "Frater Ave atque Vale" after visiting Sirmione where Catullus once lived, he it the "Tenderest of Roman poets nineteen-hundred years ago".

Springing from Catullus
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8.00

tr. John Felstiner, publ. W.W.Norton. Bilingual - 426pp. hb
A rich new (2001) selection of Celan's work, including for the first time his youthful lyrics and unpublished poems found after his death. "Felstiner translates ... brilliantly." (John Bayley, New York Review of Books)

CELAN, Paul

Selected Poems
and Prose
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23.00

tr. Ian Fairley, publ. Carcanet Press. Bilingual - 285pp. pb
These poems are compact acts of resistance, provocation and lament, dialogues with history, with language, with an evanescent "you". Appearing here in a complete English translation for the first time, Fathomsuns and Benighted present Paul Celan at his most urgent and unassimilable.

Fathomsuns & Benighted

tr. Michael Hamburger, publ. Penguin Books. Bilingual - 358pp. pb
"Celan's mysterious, spell-binding German poems have been translated into equally mysterious, equally spell-binding English verse. Through these exemplary translations the English reader can now enter the hermetic universe of a German-Jewish poet who made out of the anguish of his people, and his own representative sufferings, things of terror and beauty." Times Literary Supplement

Selected Poems
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12.99

tr. Mireille Rosello with Annie Pritchard, publ. Bloodaxe Books. Bilingual - 160pp. pb
A seminal text in Surrealist, French and Black literatures, this is a challenging and deeply moving poem on the theme of the future of the negro race.

CÉSAIRE, Aimé

Return to My Native Land
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8.95

tr. various, publ. Arc Publications. Bilingual - Punjabi/English 129pp. pb
"Amarjit Chandan's poetry transports its listeners or readers into an arena of timelessness. What he does is to fold time; time in his poems becomes like an arras or a hinged screen. John Berger

CHANDAN, Amarjit

Sonata for Four Hands

10.95 pb, 13.99 hb.

tr. Michael Worton, publ. Bloodaxe Books. Bilingual - 160pp. pb
One of the most important modern French poets, admired by Heidegger for the profundity of his poetic philosophy, Char confronts the moral, political and artistic concerns of his age with simplicity of vision and expression.

CHAR, René

The Dawn Breakers
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7.95

ed. Mary Ann Cawes & Tina Jolas, publ. New Directions. Bilingual - 141pp. pb
"This is a fine, bilingual edition of the works of one of the great French Surrealists... The translations, by several hands, serve Char well - full of insinuating rhythms and unusual verbal couplings, they come close to the piercing beauty of the originals." (Pat Monaghan, Booklist)

Selected Poems
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7.75

tr. Susanna Nied, publ. Dedalus Press. Bilingual - 37pp. pb
"... a tour de force, exploring the major themes of life, love, death and art. The form is simple yet complex, a sonnet sequence building to a final sonnet of extraordinary power. Life, love, art, all are transient - like the butterfly, yet beautiful, even in their ephemerality."

CHRISTENSEN, Inger

Butterfly Valley
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6.95

tr. Ranjit Bolt, publ. Oberon Books. 192pp. pb
Three Corneille masterpieces. Ranjit Bolt's version of The Liar finds a way of rendering rhyming couplets which 'no one else from the history of translating for the theatre has ever done ... with some style and without sacrificing the sense of gallantry that is so essential to the original text.' (BBC Radio 3's Critics Forum)

COHN, Hans W.

With All Five Senses
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tr. Frederick G. Cohn, publ. Menard Press. 64pp. pb
The two Cohn brothers escaped the Nazis from Czechoslovakia. Michael Hamburger says of these poems that "they are existentialist parables written with an extraordinary precision, and without the aid of rhetoric or conventional pathos ... all the more poignant for that ... because they have been refined and distilled to their essence.

7.99

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COLES, Don

Die weissen Körper der Engel
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tr. Margitt Lehbert, publ. Edition Rugerup 153pp. pb
German translations of Don Coles, born in Ontario, Canada in 1928.

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CORBIÈRE, Tristan

These Jaundiced Loves
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tr. Christopher Pilling, publ. Peterloo Poets. 394pp. Bilingual - pb
The very first complete translation of the 101 poems that make up Tristan Corbière's 1873 volume Les Amours Jaunes. "If anybody thinks translation is a dead duck, he or she should try ... Christopher Pilling's Englishing of Corbièe. It's work like this ... that redeems the whole concept of translating from one language to another." Gavin Ewart, "The Observer"

14.95

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Wry-blue Loves
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tr. Peter Dale, publ. Anvil Press. 476pp. Bilingual - pb pb
Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.
With pervasive self-mocking humour Corbière's poems combine a hopeless love, a grounded sea-fever, a ferocious ironic compassion and a savage sympathy with dogs and underdogs. As Peter Dale writes in his introduction: "Above all, he is his own man, able to resist the blandishments of literary theory, social expectations, and the mollifications of religion."

14.95

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CORNEILLE, Pierre

"The Liar",
"The Illusion"
& "Le Cid"
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9.99

tr. John Cairncross, publ. Penguin Classics. 281pp. pb
These blank verse translations brilliantly catch the spirit of Corneille; and John Cairncross has also provided an introduction to the dramatist and a preface to each play.

CORNEILLE, Pierre

"The Cid",
"Cinna" & "The Theatrical Illusion"
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11.99

"Selected Poems",
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CROSS, Elsa

English translations only, publ. Shearsman Books. 125pp. pb
"Elsa Cross is one of Mexico's most significant contemporary poets, and this is the first full-length collection of her work in English."

9.95

tr. Iain Higgins, publ. Harwood Academic Publishers. Bilingual - 221pp. hb (+cd)
Adam Czerniawski writes distinctive, challenging and engaging poems, and since the late seventies has established himself as a significant presence in Polish poetry. In poem after poem he debates, enacts or meditates obliquely on puzzles and questions of perception, memory and representation, offering his readers the pleasures of watching a highly conscious and cultured Anglo-Polish - indeed European - mind at work and play.

CZERNIAWSKI, Adam

"Selected Poems"
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14.40

ed. Anna Lawrence, publ. Everyman's Poetry. 101pp. pb
A selection drawn from the whole of Dante's lyric poetry, including cantos from each part of the Comedy. There are classic translations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, H.F.Carey, Longfellow, as well as some new ones.

DANTE

Dante
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2.00

tr. Henry Cary, publ. Everyman. 448pp. pb
"Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them ... Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion; Dante the greatest altitude and greatest depth."
(T.S.Eliot) This volume includes notes, criticism and chronology of Dante's life and times.

The Divine Comedy
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8.99

tr. Peter Dale, publ. Anvil Press. pb
Peter Dale's great achievement here has been to produce a version of The Divine Comedy in modern English that echoes Dante's "sweet new style", while keeping to the poet's demanding terza rima verse pattern. It is a reader's edition - accurate, clear and compelling. It is also Peter Dale's crowning achievement as a translator.

The Divine Comedy
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tr. Mark Musa, publ. Penguin Books. 654pp. pb
This volume captures the scope and fire of Dante's genius as thoroughly as any single volume can. It contains complete verse translations of The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova, plus a bibliography, notes and introduction by the eminent scholar and translator Mark Musa.

The Portable Dante
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tr. Mark Musa, publ. Penguin Classics. 398pp. pb
"It moves one to virtual awe ... The language itself becomes, as it should, a religious experience." (Los Angeles Times)

The Divine Comedy
- Vol.I: Inferno
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tr. Mark Musa, publ. Penguin Classics. 430pp. pb
This vigorous 1971 blank verse translation preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original Italian verse.

6.99

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The Divine Comedy - Vol.II: Purgatory
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6.99

tr. Mark Musa, publ. Penguin Classics. 433pp. pb
"(Musa's) version should assume its rightful place of prominence as one of the finest verse translations of The Divine Comedy produced in modern times." (Choice)

The Divine Comedy - Vol.III: Paradise
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6.99

tr. Robin Kirkpatrick, publ. Penguin Classics. 480pp. pb
"Robin Kirkpatrick's new translation captures the sublime imaginative power of the final
sequence of the Commedia and the vigour of the original Italian, which is printed on facing pages."

Paradiso

12.99

tr. Sean O'Brien, publ. Picador. 247pp. hb
"... the most fluent, grippingly readable English version of Dante's poem yet ..."
"(O'Brien's) work is elegiac and satirical, interested in history, politics and the imagination." (Independent on Sunday)

Dante's Inferno
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15.00

tr. Dorothy L. Sayers, publ. Penguin Classics. 345pp. pb
This masterly rhyming translation by one of England's great writers dates from 1949. Her introduction is also well worth reading.

The Divine Comedy
- Vol.1: Hell
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6.99

tr. Dorothy L Sayers, publ. Penguin Classics. 388pp. pb
"The tenderest, most subtle and most human section of the Comedy" (Dorothy Sayers)

The Divine Comedy
- Vol.2: Purgatory
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6.99

tr. Dorothy L. Sayers, publ. Penguin Classics. 400pp. pb
The completion of a classic version.

The Divine Comedy - Vol.3: Paradise
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6.99

tr. Barbara Reynolds, publ. Penguin Classics. 123pp. pb
Deeply felt but intellectually disciplined, radiant but analytical, La Vita Nuova reveals Dante's vision in which human love touches that of God. Intended as a treatise for fellow poets, it consists of a sequence of astonishing and tender love poems to Beatrice, interspersed with Dante's own commentary.

La Vita Nuova
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6.99

tr. from Bengali by Joe Winter, publ. Anvil Press - 111 pp.pb
One of the greatest poets of the subcontinent, Jibanananda Das (1899-1954) redefined the parameters of Bengali poetry in the wake of the impression left by the work of his more traditional compatriot, Rabindranath Tagore. Idiosyncratic in style and with an affinity for the bylanes of the imagination, Jibanananda Das stands unusually close to the reader.

DAS, Jibanananda

Naked Lonely Hand

8.95

tr. from Armenian by Arminé Tamrazian, publ. Arc Publications - 165 pp.pb
The most astonishing element of Davoyan's work is that it is saturated with joy; ...(W.N.Herbert)

DAVOYAN, Razmik

Whispers & Breath of the Meadows

10.99 pb. 13.99 hb.

tr. from Russian into English by Daniel Weissbort, & into Swedish by Julian Birbrajer,
publ. Ars Interpres Publications - 43 pp.
"It would be an understatement to name Regina Derieva one of the outstanding writers of the contemporary Russian diaspora: she has won acclaim as the author of powerful and inimitable verse, who occupies a unique niche in world poetry today." The New Criterion

DERIEVA, Regina

Everything the 12
Caesars Did Not Get
to Say

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The Sum Total of Violations

tr. from Russian by Daniel Weissbort
publ. Arc Publications - 161 pp.
"Regina Derieva in her work and in her person embodies the new internationalism of poetry that has erupted since the fall of the Soviet Union and the opening of Eastern Europe." William Doreski

10.99 pb., 13.99 hb.

selected poems, tr. Reine Errington, publ. Piper's Ash - 64 pp. chapbook
A collection of two of the greatest 16th. century French poets, sensitively translated by Lady Reine Errington. In singing verse they celebrate the pains and pleasures of rural and domestic life and love.

DU BELLAY, Joachim

Les Deux Poètes Français (with Ronsard)
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4.00

tr. Willem Groenewegen, publ. Arc Publications - 143 pp. pb
Arc Visible Poets Series
Duinker is one of Holland's most highly respected poets, though he does not fit into the mould of a Dutch poet, being far more concerned with reality than with abstractions. This is a collection full of laughter, exuberance, tenderness and the poet's humanity, in a sensitive translation.

DUINKER, Arjen

The Sublime Song of a Maybe
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8.95

tr. various, publ. Bloodaxe Books. Bilingual - 128 pp. pb
"Liberation and enclosure are powerful themes in Menna Elfyn's work. She is a political poet, writing with passion of the Welsh language and identity for which she campaigns. But she makes her claims with realism ... a restless, intensely responsive imagination." (Helen Dunmore, Observer)

ELFYN, Menna

Cusan Dyn Dall - Blind Man's Kiss
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7.95

tr. various, publ. Gwasg Gomer. Bilingual - 107 pp. pb
This is Menna Elfyn's first bilingual collection, with translations by outstanding poets. "I admire the subtle way in which she intricately weaves traditional metrical forms into her work." (R.S.Thomas) "It is this ability to see the world in a grain of sand which is remarkable about Menna Elfyn." Merryn Williams

Eucalyptus
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5.50

tr. various, publ. Bloodaxe Books. Bilingual - 112 pp. pb
"Menna Elfyn is one of the most significant poets currently writing in Wales. Her conspicuous moral and political commitments, international in scope, are always underwritten by her prior commitment to language. Hers is a subtle politics of parable rather than polemic, and a style in which vulnerability is the other face of daring." M. Wynn Thomas

Cell Angel
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7.95

tr. various, publ. Bloodaxe Books. Bilingual - 302 pp. pb
"Menna Elfyn is the best-known, most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets. The extraordinary international range of her subjects, breathtaking inventiveness and generosity of vision place her among Europe's leading poets. This bilingual edition of her later poetry includes work from Cell Angel (1996) and Blind Man's Kiss (2001), as well as the first English translations of Perffaith Nam 2005 and a selection of new poems."

Perfect Blemish

tr. David Colmer, publ. The Toby Press. Bilingual - 100 pp. hb
A selection from "Holland's favourite author". "She does not shun big emotions, she is not afraid of sentimentality and pathos, and that makes her poetry adventurous and written in blood. Perhaps Anna Enquist's collections sell so well because they offer an intelligent form of solace, and because of their sensivity and their resonance." Het Parool

ENQUIST, Anna

The fire was here
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tr. Michael Hamburger, publ. Bloodaxe Books - 112 pp. pb
"A voice of ferocious urbanity, laying bare the horrors of the modern German state and resignedly picking out stark cameos of the human condition." (Peter Forbes, Financial Times

ENZENSBERGER, Hans Magnus

Kiosk

7.95

tr. the poet & Michael Hamburger, publ. Bloodaxe Books. Bilingual - 255 pp. pb
"... Enzensberger is a poet of formidable intelligence and range. Like Brecht before him, he combines an intense political imagination with lyric gusto. The reader discovers in him both a satirist and a friend" - George Steiner

Selected Poems
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8.95

tr. David Constantine, publ. Bloodaxe Books - 101 pp. pb
This latest collection of moral poems weighs lightness against seriousness. These are witty, lightly ironic poems on all kinds of subjects, easy in style, engaging in tone, often conversational.

Lighter than air

8.95

tr. A.T.Hatto, publ. Penguin Books - 448 pp. pb
Parzival is one of the world's greatest narrative poems, the re-creation and completion of the story of the Holy Grail that was left unfinished by its initiator, Chrétien de Troyes. Set against alternating backdrops of forbidding landscape and dazzling courtly ritual, Parzival's career, which culminates in the temple of the Grail, symbolizes chivalric life at its highest.

ESCHENBACH, Wolfram von

Parzival
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11.99

tr. Louis J. Rodrigues, publ. Carcanet Press. Bilingual - 145 pp. pb
The Catalan writer Salvador Espriu's mission was to make his language sing and survive the years when Franco insisted that a unified Spain required a single tongue and forbade the use of other national languages. The intellectual and lyrical vigour of Espriu's poems was and remains an inspiration and a consolation to all Catalan speakers.

ESPRIU, Salvador

Selected Poems
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9.95

tr. Anamaría Crowe Serrano, publ. Chelsea Editions. Bilingual - 224 pp. pb
"Many of the poems speak of the efficacy of the word, its importance as a way of bringing people together and understanding cultures. The word, in whatever form it takes (written on paper, carved on rock, "voicesong"), is intense, almost sacred, containing the power "to unveil time" from which we can learn."

FERRAMOSCA, Annamaria

Other Signs, Other Circles
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USD.20.00

tr. Arthur Terry, publ. Arc Publications. Bilingual - 96 pp. pb
Rich in metaphor and imagery, Ferrater's remarkable poetry is presented in this volume in an equally remarkagle translation by Arthur Terry whose affinity with the poet is not only declared in his translator's preface but is also self-evident from the powerful poetic 'voice' he creates in English.

FERRATER, Gabriel

Women and Days
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8.95

ed. Irene Marchegiani, publ. Chelsea Editions. Bilingual - 234 pp. pb
"There's a great freedom of forms and intonations in Luigi Fontanella's poetry. He doesn't take a strong formal stand; his poetry entertains moments of nearly proselike colloquial narrative along with moments of powerful lyrical tension. There is a movement of extremes, from powerful tonality to near atonality, and I like this a great deal; it's a stance that very effectively catches the spirit that makes work in poetry possible nowadays." - Giovanni Raboni

FONTANELLA, Luigi

Land of Time
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USD.15.00

tr. David McDuff, publ. Bloodaxe Books - 55 pp. pb
Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.
'Tua Forsström's poems give a sense of having crystallised under a great pressure. Many of them are about grief and desertion, they are a kind of cartographical survey of the landscape of grief, exercises in renunciation and in the affirmation of loss of love, sexuality and communion with others ..." - Claes Andersson.

FORSSTRÖM, Tua

Snow Leopard
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5.95

tr. Michael Hamburger, publ. Arc Publications. Bilingual - 65 pp. hb
Fortini is often thought of as a 'political' poet, but as Michael Hamburger points out political commitment often turns out to be moral commitment, and this is the case here. He has roots in Italian and Florentine culture, and is influenced by the hermeticism of the best Italian poetry of his time. "His poems are at once personal and public, subjective and objective, and they abound in subtle references to history and literature..."

FORTINI, Franco

Poems
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12.00

paperback version of above. Bilingual - 65 pp. pb

8.00

tr. Paul Lawton, publ. Carcanet Press. Bilingual - 137 pp. hb
"Fortini has always accepted the human condition in terms of history, but he does so in order to fight against the limits that history imposes on man. His poetry, with its magical, sad cadences, really deals with moral commitment and personal responsibility." (Times Literary Supplement)

Summer is not all

18.95

tr. Keith Bosley, publ. Bloodaxe Books. Bilingual - 128 pp. pb.
Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.
"...uses the city of Rome as a focus for impassioned meditation on culture and barbarism, faiths and revolts, cruelties and aspirations" (Edwin Morgan)

FRÉNAUD, André

Rome the Sorceress
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8.95

tr. Ewald Osers, publ. Menard Press - 61 pp. pb
Ewald Osers writes: "Fritz is a reticent poet. The conviction his work carries stems from an intense inwardness, from a sense of place and time, from a deep awareness of the continuity of civilisation, and from a mastery of language".

FRITZ, Walter Helmut

Without Remission
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3.00

tr. Margitt Lehbert, publ. Edition Rugerup - 144 pp. pb
A selection of poems by Robin Fulton, translated into German. Robin is a Scottish poet living in Sweden, and a prominent translator of Scandinavian poetry into English.

FULTON, Robin

Grenzflug
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Euros
19.90

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GATSOS, Nikos

Amorgos

tr. Sally Purcell, publ. Anvil Press - 60 pp. pb
"Nikos Gatsos was a war-time poet. Amorgos...is almost all that he ever wrote. It hit his generation like a thunderbolt... He was undoubtedly by this time a great master of poetry in many languages, but it was into Greek traditions, folklore and poetry of the oral tradition that he dug to find his roots. He was as fresh as a waterfall." (Peter Levi)

7.95

tr. Mark Schafer, publ. Shearsman Books. Bilingual - 399 pp. pb
"To say that this is a book of the immigrant experience - which in some sense it is - is to underrate the range of form & feeling that Gervitz brings to it, creating thereby an epic of the migratory self. Like Pound's Cantos or Zukofsky's A, hers is the work of a lifetime: a life's work including not only autobiography and familial memories as a kind of history, but rife with religious and mystical imagery from Jewish kabbala to Mexican folk Catholicism and beyond. Migrations takes its place with theirs as a long and difficult poem which is the achievement of a great poetic talent: a complex tribute to the complex world from which it comes." - Jerome Rothenberg

GERVITZ, Gloria

Migrations

15.95

tr. James Kirkup, publ. Hub Editions. Bilingual - 79 pp. pb
... Iwan Gilkin ... attracted me with his weird passions and wild aesthetic indignations, his deeply romantic and plaintively histrionic style, with its immaculate rhyming clicking into place at the end of each line, a precision impossible to replicate with our cosy English words without taking liberties with the sense of the originals." - James Kirkup

GILKIN, Iwan

A Pilgrimage in Hell
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6.50

tr. D.M.Black, publ. FRAS publications - 76 pp. pb
"Goethe's poetry is unique in its fusion of joie de vivre, good sense and acute psychological perception. David Black conveys all these qualities. Across two hundred years and despite the change of language we can hear the intonations of a living voice." Robert Chandler

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von

Love as a Landscape Painter
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8.50

tr. David Luke, publ. Libris. Bilingual - 283 pp. hb
Published on the 250th. anniversary of Goethe's birth, this substantial collection of his poems is the largest ever published in English. The scholarly and poetic translations make this a standard work.

Selected Poetry
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52.95

paperback version of above. Bilingual - 283 pp. pb
Libris books are beautiful - even the paperback!

21.15

tr. David Luke, publ. Libris. Bilingual - 136 pp. hb
Two erotic masterpieces! The Elegies mark the poet's growth from youthful Romanticism to adult Classicism, while the Diary is recognised as a narrative poem of incomparable good humour and beauty.

Roman Elegies and The Diary
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19.95

tr. John Whaley, publ. J.M.Dent. Bilingual - 175 pp. hb
A scholarly presentation of "one of world literature's most towering figures ... Goethe led the Enlightenment and Romanticism without fully subscribing to either. This major new selection of his poetry enables him to be appreciated in the English it deserves, full of music, humanity and grace."

Selected Poems
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20.00

tr. Philip Wayne, publ. Penguin Classics - 197 pp. pb
"We know that Goethe weighed in his mind several stories as possible vehicles of his longings and belief, but the Faust legend took increasingly powerful form in his imagination, and the strength of his young genius is seen in the resolution with which he remoulded the story." (Philip Wayne)

Faust - Part One
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5.99

tr. Philip Wayne, publ. Penguin Classics - 288 pp. pb
Rich in allusion and allegory, Faust II ranges through a host of philosophical and speculative themes.
Completed a few months before he died, Faust was the culmination of Goethe's lifelong obsession and assured him a place in the first rank of world literature.

Faust - Part Two
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6.99

tr. Robert David MacDonald, publ. Oberon Books - 223 pp. pb
This translation was used in acclaimed productions in Glasgow and London, and opens up the extraordinary range and pace of Goethe's language, rhythms, imagery and ideas without sacrificing any of the play's humour. The Open University has adopted this translation as a set book.

Faust - Parts One & Two
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tr. C. F. MacIntyre, publ. New Directions Publ. Corp. - 188 pp. pb
Part I of Faust, which Goethe published twenty-four years before its sequel, deals with Faust's journey through the everyday world and his love for Gretchen. It is made especially memorable in this translation, which Victor Lange, Chairman of the Department of German at Princeton, has called "certainly the most usable and most appealing Faust translation in English. It is modern without losing the dignity of the original and is perhaps the only translation that conveys something of the freshness and poetic vitality of Goethe's own speech."

Faust - An American translation of Part One
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7.75

prose tr. David Luke, publ. Penguin Classics - 367pp. pb
"The difficult problem of selection has been solved with a thoroughness and ingenuity that are especially commendable and make this collection more representative of Goethe's full range than any single volume edition hitherto available." (Time Literary Supplement)

Selected Verse
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8.99

tr. Robert David MacDonald, publ. Oberon Books
- 96pp. pb
"The disproportion of talent to life" is the subject matter of Tasso, as described by Goethe himself in 1789. But the play, though concerned with the predicament of the artist at odds with the world around him, is profoundly relevant to us all. "Robert David MacDonald's highly literate and entertaining new translation reveals a continuing relevance that is astonishing..." (The Guardian)

Tasso
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7.99

tr. Sanda Golopentia & Peg Hausman, publ. Editura Ethnologica. Bilingual - 260 pp. pb
Songs of the women of Breb (Romania)

GOLOPENTIA, Sanda

Learn to Sing, my Mother said
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tr. Michael Smith, publ. Anvil Press. Bilingual - 166 pp. pb
Spain's greatest poet of the Baroque period, Góngora was described by Roy Campbell as "a symbolist who contains the whole of Mallarmé .. a symbolist three hundred years before his time."

GÓNGORA, Luis de

Selected Shorter Poems
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8.95

tr. Michael Hamburger, publ. Faber and Faber. Bilingual - 155 pp. pb
Grass's fame as a novelist has tended to obscure his achievements in poetry, but his first book was a collection of poems and he has returned faithfully to the medium throughout his writing life. All his preoccupations - social, sexual, moral, gastronomical - are found there, as is the unique mixture of expressionistic grotesquerie and political seriousness that characterizes his fiction.

GRASS, Gnter

Selected Poems 1956-1993
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tr. Tom Cheesman & John Goodby, publ. Arc Publications. Bilingual - 161 pp. hb & pb
"His surly ironies have a fighter's edge, a tough beauty which ropes us in. Britain has inadvertently inherited a political poet of stature, one whose language sings whether he is attacking the face of grim authority or dreaming of that other asylum which is an imagined Algeria of peace." - (Lisa Appignanesi)

GUÉMAR, Soleïman Adel

State of Emergency

hb.14.99, pb.9.99

tr. Catherine O'Brien, publ. Dedalus Press. Bilingual - 95 pp. hb
"...one of the most important and best-loved of contemporary Italian poets...her vision is loving, tender, explorative, ultimately hopeful, her poetry is richly alive to the problems facing the contemporary world, both secular and religious."

GUIDACCI, Margherita

In the Eastern Sky
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8.95

paperback version of above. Bilingual - 95 pp. pb

5.95

tr. John Montague, publ. Bloodaxe Books. Bilingual - 160 pp. pb
One of France's most important modern poets ... evokes the rocky, sea-bound landscape of his Breton homeland, focussing on the standing-stones of his native village of Carnac.

GUILLEVIC, Eugène

Carnac
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8.95

tr. Denise Levertov, publ. New Directions Publ. Corp. Bilingual - 142 pp. hb
Guillevic's poems embody his indignation at the use and misuse of some human beings by others - as well as his cold and clear understanding of historical process. As Miss Levertov points out in her introduction "... the simplicity of diction, the plain and hard meaning of things without descriptive qualification, reverberates, in the highly charged condemnation of Guillevic's poems, with the ambiguity, the unfathomable mystery of natural objects."

Selected Poems
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4.25