Eros, Eros, Eros

Author: Odysseas Elytēs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
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.

Map

Author: Wisława Szymborska
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544126025
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 467

Book Description
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.

Last Poems

Author: Paul Celan
Publisher: San Francisco : North Point Press
ISBN: 9780865472235
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
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

Passing Through

Author: Stanley Kunitz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393316155
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
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."

This Great Unknowing: Last Poems

Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223191
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
When Denise Levertov died on December 20, 1997, she left behind forty finished poems, which now form her last collection, This Great Unknowing. Few poets have possessed so great a gift or so great a body of work—when she died at 74, she had been a published poet for more than half a century. The poems themselves shine with the artistry of a writer at the height of her powers.

Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004

Author: Czeslaw Milosz
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141392312
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 469

Book Description
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

The Dream We Carry

Author: Olav H. Hauge
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556592884
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Comprehensive, bilingual volume from Norway's sage; translated by the Roberts Bly and Hedin.

The Darkening Trapeze

Author: Larry Levis
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1555977278
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
The empty bar that someone was supposed to swing to him Did not arrive, & so his outstretched flesh itself became A darkening trapeze. The two other acrobats were thieves. --from "Elegy with a Darkening Trapeze Inside It" The Darkening Trapeze collects the last poems by Larry Levis, written during the extraordinary blaze of his final years when his poetry expanded into the ambitious operatic masterpieces he is known for. Edited and with an afterword by David St. John and published twenty years after Levis's death, this collection contains major unpublished works, including final elegies, brief lyrics, and a coda believed to be the last poem Levis wrote, a heart-wrenching poem about his son. The Darkening Trapeze is an astonishing collection by a poet many consider to be among the greatest of late-twentieth-century American poetry.

Selected and Last Poems

Author: Paul Zweig
Publisher: Wesleyan
ISBN: 9780819511591
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Presents works selected from four previous collections of verse, including "Against Emptiness," "Eternity's Woods," "The Dark Side of the Earth," and "Last Poems"

Selected Poems

Author: Czeslaw Milosz
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060188677
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Selected Poems: 1931-2004 celebrates Czeslaw Milosz's lifetime of poetry. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of expression and probing inquiry. Life opened for Czeslaw Milosz at a crossroads of civilizations in northeastern Europe. This was less a melting pot than a torrent of languages and ideas, where old folk traditions met Catholic, Protestant, Judaic, and Orthodox rites. What unfolded next around him was a century of catastrophe and madness: two world wars, revolutions, invasions, and the murder of tens of millions, all set to a cacophony of hymns, gunfire, national anthems, and dazzling lies. In the thick of this upheaval, wide awake and in awe of living, dodging shrapnel, imprisonment, and despair, Milosz tried to understand both history and the moment, with humble respect for the suffering of each individual. He read voraciously in many languages and wrote masterful poetry that, even in translation, is infused with a tireless spirit and a penetrating insight into fundamental human dilemmas and the staggering yet simple truth that "to exist on the earth is beyond any power to name." Unflinching, outspoken, timeless, and unsentimental, Milosz digs through the rubble of the past, forging a vision -- and a warning -- that encompasses both pain and joy. "His intellectual life," writes Seamus Heaney, "could be viewed as a long single combat with shape-shifting untruth."