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W S Merwin
This ambitious and exuberant distillation of W.S. Merwin’s vast poetic oeuvre presents the absolute best of the best.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, W. D. Snodgrass’s Selected Translations offers us the imaginative power and the playful wisdom of poems, folk songs, fables, street songs, drinking lyrics, ballads, and art songs…
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W.S. Merwin
In The Lost Upland, W. S. Merwin vividly conveys his intimate knowledge of the people and the countryside in this ancient part of France (home of the Lascaux caves). In…
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Paperback of WS Merwin’s most recent volume, a book infused with buoyancy and light. (Booklist)
Restoring to print 400 pages of W.S. Merwin’s enigmatic and gorgeous fables.
Selected Translations is the crowning achievement for one of the world’s greatest and most prolific translators of poetry. Absolutely essential.
Acclaimed poet W.S. Merwin’s translations are as breathtakingly elegant as a Japanese Zen rock garden. The Pulitzer Prize-winner has translated poems and aphorisms from Asian languages as diverse as Urdu…
A volume bringing back into print three volumes by the most celebrated American poet currently writing.
Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century’s greatest American poets.
Juan Goytisolo
The world’s first picaresque novel and an inspiration for many writers, including Cervantes.
Jean Follain
A bilingual edition celebrating the centennial of Follain’s birth, translated by one of America’s great poets.
This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. Spanning Merwin’s early career, his mid-career success, his Hawaiian epic, his eco-poetry, his lesser-known later…
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This imaginative approach to the work of the Urdu poet Ghalib (1797-1869) presents highly original renderings, made by seven well-known American poets, of Ghalib’s ghazals.
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Osip Mandelstam
Offers a selection of Osip Mandelstam’s poetry in English translation.
