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A Wedding in Hell: Poems

ISBN: 9780156001298

49,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
Simic puts chirping birds, sex, and happiness into a world of broken windows, shivering trees, soldiers, lone dogs, the homeless of the city, and a God still making up his mind. "Provocative...a tantalizing, beautiful fusion of visions" (Bloomsbury Review).
View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

ISBN: 9780156002165

55,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
From one of Europe's most prominent and celebrated poets, a collection remarkable for its graceful lyricism. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, Szymborska documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty to capture the wonder of existence. Preface by Mark Strand. Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, winners of the PEN Translation Prize.
Novemberland: Selected Poems 1956-1993

ISBN: 9780156003315

61,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
These fifty-four poems, spanning four decades, depict a landscape at once recognizably mundane and grotesquely surreal. Grass's spirited humor and linguistic creativity transcend the cant of political poetry. The German originals face the translation. Translated by Michael Hamburger. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Selected Poems

ISBN: 9780156003964

64,01 PLN (BRUTTO)
This new collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln. The Hendricks' comprehensive introduction discusses how Sandburg's life and beliefs colored his work and why it continues to resonate so deeply with americans today. Edited and with an Introduction by George and Willene Hendrick.
Walking the Black Cat

ISBN: 9780156004817

58,41 PLN (BRUTTO)
Hamlet's ghost wandering the halls of a Vegas motel, a street corner ventriloquist using passersby as dummies, and Jesus panhandling in a weed-infested Eden are just a few of the startling conceits Simic unleashes in this collection. "Few contemporary poets have been as influential-or inimitable-as Charles Simic" (New York Times Book Review).
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry

ISBN: 9780156005746

57,98 PLN (BRUTTO)
Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz selects and introduces 300 of his favorite poems in this "magnificent collection" that ranges "widely across time and continents, from eighth century China to contemporary americanca" (San Francisco Chronicle).
A Painted Field: Poems

ISBN: 9780156006477

49,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
In these forty-two poems, Robin Robertson demonstrates an astonishing range of style and concerns, in a voice that is utterly original. Whether he is rendering a dramatic new version of Ovid ("The Flaying of Marsyas") or celebrating the ambiguous pleasures of food ("Artichoke"), Robertson's poetry is always lucid, sensuous, and compelling. These are poems that speak of the wounds of memory, the implacable coupling of desire and loss, the fugitive nature of things. Elegant and profound, A Painted Field has p
Jackstraws: Poems

ISBN: 9780156010986

58,27 PLN (BRUTTO)
In this new collection of sixty-two poems Charles Simic paints exquisite and shattering word pictures that lend meaning to a chaotic world populated by insects, bridal veils, pallbearers, TV sets, parrots, and a finely detailed dragonfly. Suffused with hope yet unafraid to mock his own credulity, Simic's searing metaphors unite the solemn with the absurd. His raindrops listen to each other fall and collect memories; his wildflowers are drunk with kissing the red-hot breezes; and his God is a Mr. Know-it-all
Poems New and Collected

ISBN: 9780156011464

63,15 PLN (BRUTTO)
Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts. This is the book that her many fans have been anxiously awaiting-the definitive, complete collection of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, including 164 poems in all, as well as the full text of her Nobel acceptance speech of December 7, 1996, in Stockholm.
Poems

ISBN: 9780156027694

58,27 PLN (BRUTTO)
A collection of Lewis's shorter poetry on a wide range of subjects-God and the pagan deities, unicorns and spaceships, nature, love, age, and reason: "Idea poems which reiterate themes known to have occupied Lewis's ingenious and provocative mind" (Clyde S. Kilby, New York Times Book Review). Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.
Narrative Poems

ISBN: 9780156027984

63,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
Lewis often said that his favorite form of literary expression was the narrative poem, although he appears to have written just four, all of which are collected here. They exhibit the romantic aspects of his temperament and reveal his deep love for medieval and Renaissance poetry. Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.
Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete

ISBN: 9780156028615

61,21 PLN (BRUTTO)
This anthology represents Alice Walker's complete earlier poetry,
from the summer of 1965 when she traveled to East Africa and
began the poems that would form her first collection, through her
poetry of the civil rights movement and beyond. Revelatory introductions
to each group of poems provide a special insight into the evolving
consciousness of one of the most remarkable and provocative literary
minds of our time.
Open Closed Open: Poems

ISBN: 9780156030502

55,40 PLN (BRUTTO)

In poems marked by tenderness and mischief, humanity and humor, Yehuda Amichai breaks open the grand diction of revered Jewish verses and casts the light of his own experi-ence upon them. Here he tells of history, a nation, the self, love, and resurrection. Amichai's last volume is one of medi-tation and hope, and stands as a testament to one of Israel's greatest poets.
"Open closed open. Before we are born, everything is open"
"in the universe without us. For as long as we live, everything is clo

The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late & New Poems

ISBN: 9780156030731

55,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardonic humor all his own. Gathering much of his material from the seemingly mundane minutiae of contemporary American culture, Simic matches meditations on spiritual concerns and the weight of history with a nimble wit, shifting effortlessly to moments of clear vision and intense poetic revelation.
Chosen as on
Failure

ISBN: 9780156031288

55,27 PLN (BRUTTO)
This superb Pulitzer Prize-winning collection gives voice to failure with a wry, deft touch from one of this country's most engaging and uncompromising poets. In "Failure, "Philip Schultz evokes the pleasures of family, marriage, beaches, and dogs; New York City in the 1970s; revolutions both interior and exterior; and the terrors of 9/11 with a compassion that demonstrates he is a master of the bittersweet and fierce, the wondrous and direct, and the brilliantly provocative. Filled with poems of "heartbrea
Crossing the Equator: New and Selected Poems 1972-2004

ISBN: 9780156031400

58,41 PLN (BRUTTO)
Nicholas Christopher has been praised as one of America's most important poets by such literary talents as John Ashbery, Charles Simic, James Merrill, and Anthony Hecht. Crossing the Equator collects Christopher's best work from the past three decades and includes a section of new poems that are among his finest.Cold missiles and a rainof embers accompany the menwho slide like shadows into the cityfaces mud-smearedstones for teeth no eyeswho slit the throats of everyonethey encounter until breaking downmy d
Swithering

ISBN: 9780156031998

49,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
To "swither" means to suffer indecision or doubt, but there is no faltering in these poems; any uncertainty is not in the lines or the sounds or the images, but only in the themes of flux and change and transformation that thread their way through this powerful third collection. Robin Robertson has written a book of remarkable cohesion and range that calls on his knowledge of folklore and myth to fuse the old ways with the new. From raw, exposed poems about the end of childhood to erotically charged lyrics
The Book for My Brother

ISBN: 9780156032056

60,56 PLN (BRUTTO)
This newest collection of poems from Tomaž Salamun is exuberant, ambitious, and full of surprises. Here the devil is encountered and understood-
"I see the devil's head, people, I see his whole body . . . "
"he longs for innocence, as we do. "
"Here the poet juggles many tones, languages, and countries. Desire is evoked as both frustrating and exhilarating-"
"I'm watered by longing, knocking my"
"head into the wall, on the ground, or I burn, burn, "
"folded up on the couch."
"And
Bucolics

ISBN: 9780156034753

55,40 PLN (BRUTTO)

Untitled and unpunctuated, the seventy poems in this acclaimed collection seem to cascade from one page to another. Maurice Manning extolls the virtues of nature and its many gifts, and finds deep gratitude for the mysterious hand that created it all.

that bare branch that branch made black

by the rain the silver raindrop

hanging from the black branch

Boss I like that black branch

I like that shiny raindrop Boss

tell me if I'm wrong but it makes

me think you're looking right

at me now isn

That Little Something

ISBN: 9780156035392

55,27 PLN (BRUTTO)
"That Little Something "is the superb eighteenth collection from one of America's most vital and honored poets. Over the course of his singular career, Charles Simic has won nearly every accolade, including the Pulitzer Prize, and he served as the poet laureate of the United States from 2007 to 2008.His wry humor and darkly illuminating vision are on full display here as he moves close to the dark ironies of history and human experience. Simic understands the strange interplay between the ordinary and the o
Sixty Poems

ISBN: 9780156035644

50,23 PLN (BRUTTO)

Here are sixty of Charles Simic's best known poems, collected to celebrate his appointment as the fifteenth Poet Laureate of the United States.

Anabasis

ISBN: 9780156074063

49,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
This internationally famous poem by the 1960 Nobel laureate was introduced to English-language readers in this translation by T. S. Eliot. In this definitive edition, French and English texts appear on facing pages. Preface by T. S. Eliot.
The Book of Gods and Devils

ISBN: 9780156135467

49,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
Loneliness, loss, sadness, and mystery mark this wonderful volume of forty-nine poems by Charles Simic, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and praised as "one of the truly imaginative writers of our time" by the Los Angeles Times.
Collected Poems

ISBN: 9780156188395

65,54 PLN (BRUTTO)
Fifty-six poems, including "Chinese Ballad" and "A Masque (The Birth of Steel)." "The wrung-out, colloquial dryness of this diction has its own firm music, capable of being heightened, in more elaborate poems, to a grand polyphony."-Robert Fitzgerald, New Republic.
The Complete Poems of Cavafy: Expanded Edition

ISBN: 9780156198202

63,15 PLN (BRUTTO)
Cavafy, the foremost modern Greek poet, is a master at presenting a scene, an intense feeling, or an idea in direct, unornamented verse. Many of the poems are openly homosexual. Sixty-three newly translated poems have been added to the widely praised edition which includes the classic poem "Ithaca." Introduction by W. H. Auden. Translated by Rae Dalven.
First Light: Mother and Son Poems: Mother & Son Poems: A Twentieth-Century American Selection

ISBN: 9780156311366

61,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
The first anthology of its kind, bringing together a diverse selection of new and well-known modern American poets writing on the theme of mother-son relationships; with works by eighty poets, including Sylvia Plath, e. e. cummings, William Carlos Williams, and Langston Hughes.
Four Quartets

ISBN: 9780156332255

42,48 PLN (BRUTTO)
The last major verse written by the Nobel laureate, including "Burnt Norton," "East Coker," "The Dry Salvages," and "Little Gidding."
Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning

ISBN: 9780156364676

49,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
Vivid poems of "breakdown and spiritual disarray." Writing these, Walker says, "led me eventually into a larger understanding of the psyche, and of the world." What finally marks this volume is the strong sense of change and, ultimately, of forgiveness as a part of growth.
Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

ISBN: 9780156391252

52,67 PLN (BRUTTO)
A representative selection of poems, culled from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's published verse, plus thirteen poems appearing in book form for the first time. " Sandburg's poetry] is independent, honest, direct, lyric, and it endures, clamorous and muted, magical as life itself" (New York Times). Introduction by Mark Van Doren.
Honey and Salt

ISBN: 9780156421652

58,27 PLN (BRUTTO)
In this outstanding collection of seventy-seven poems, Sandburg eloquently celebrates the themes that engaged him as a poet for more than half a century of writing- life, love, and death. Strongly lyrical, these intensely honest poems testify to human courage, frailty, and tenderness and to the enduring wonders of nature.
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful

ISBN: 9780156421737

49,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
Alice Walker has always turned to poetry to express some of her most personal and deeply felt concerns. She has said that her poems-even the happy ones-emerge from an accumulation of sadness, when she stands again "in the sunlight." " This collection] has two fine strengths-a music that comes along sometimes, as sad and cheery as a lonely woman's whistling-and Miss Walker's own tragicomic gifts" (New York Times Book Review).
Hotel Insomnia

ISBN: 9780156421829

49,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
In this volume, Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and american present-a world of his own creation, one always full of luminous surprise. "Simic writes so simply that his words fall like drops of water, but they ripple outward to evoke an ominous and numinous world" (Washington Post Book World).
Lord Weary's Castle: And the Mills of the Kavanaughs

ISBN: 9780156535007

58,41 PLN (BRUTTO)
A combined edition of the poet's early work, including Lord Weary's Castle, a collection of forty-two short poems, which won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, and The Mills of the Kavanaughs, a narrative poem of six hundred lines, and five other long poems.
New and Collected Poems

ISBN: 9780156654913

83,46 PLN (BRUTTO)
This volume represents virtually all of Wilbur's published poetry to date, including his six earlier collections, twenty-seven new poems, and a cantata. Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

ISBN: 9780156685689

42,48 PLN (BRUTTO)
Eliot's famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. This edition features pen-and-ink drolleries by Edward Gorey throughout.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

ISBN: 9780156685702

39,89 PLN (BRUTTO)
An engaging collection of humorous poems. These verses, originally composed to amuse Eliot's intimate friends, have proven irresistible to cat lovers, lovers of nonsense, and admirers of Eliot throughout the English-speaking world. "Enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most...verses" (Time). Drawings by Nicolas Bentley.
Once

ISBN: 9780156687454

49,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
This first volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this collection were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College. "Brief slashing poems-young and in the sun" (Muriel Rukeyser).
People Yes

ISBN: 9780156716659

83,46 PLN (BRUTTO)
A long poem that makes brilliant use of the legends and myths, the tall tales and sayings of America. "If America has a folksinger today he is Carl Sandburg, a singer who comes out of the prairie soil... who can hand back to the people a creation that has scraps of their own insight, humor, and imagination" (Padraic Colum).
The Poems of Richard Wilbur

ISBN: 9780156722513

64,01 PLN (BRUTTO)
This collection includes Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems, Things of This World, Ceremony and Other Poems, and The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems. "One of the best poets of his generation, Richard Wilbur has imagined excellence, and has created it" (Richard Eberhart, New York Times Book Review).
A Poetry Handbook

ISBN: 9780156724005

55,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of the basic ways a poem is built-meter and rhyme, form and diction, sound and sense. Drawing on poems from Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others, Oliver imparts an extraordinary amount of information in a remarkably short space. "Stunning" (Los Angeles Times). Index.
Revolutionary Petunias

ISBN: 9780156766203

49,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who remain painfully committed to beauty and to love even while facing the firing squad. "Quick, direct, witty, pungent" (DeWitt Beall, Chicago Daily News).
The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeths

ISBN: 9780156790154

44,93 PLN (BRUTTO)
Selected Poems

ISBN: 9780156806466

61,21 PLN (BRUTTO)
A billingual collection showing the range of Brecht's poetry, from the early Manual of Piety to the late Songs, Poems, and Choruses, including songs from his theater works. Translated and introduced by H.R. Hays.
T. S. Eliot Selected Poems

ISBN: 9780156806473

52,81 PLN (BRUTTO)
Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet's most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature-"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Gerontion," "The Waste Land," "The Hollow Men," and "Ash Wednesday"-as well as many other fine selections from Eliot's early work.
Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics

ISBN: 9780156847483

55,47 PLN (BRUTTO)
Published in 1919 when Lewis was only twenty, these early poems give an insight into the author's youthful agnosticism. The poems are written in various metrical forms, but are unified by a central idea, expressing his conviction that nature was malevolent and beauty the only true spirituality. Preface by Walter Hooper.
Unending Blues: Poems

ISBN: 9780156928311

49,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
Whether he draws for inspiration on American blues, Serbian folktales, or Greek myths, Simic's words have a way of their own. Each of these forty-four poems is a powerful mixture of concrete images. Each records the reality and myth of the world around us-and in us. "Short, perfectly shaped, Simic's poems float past like feathers, turning one way, then another" (Village Voice).
The Waste Land: Facsimile Edition

ISBN: 9780156948708

83,82 PLN (BRUTTO)
Each facsimile page of the original manuscript is accompanied here by a typeset transcript on the facing page. This book shows how the original, which was much longer than the first published version, was edited through handwritten notes by Ezra Pound, by Eliot’s first wife, and by Eliot himself. Edited and with an Introduction by Valerie Eliot; Preface by Ezra Pound.
The Waste Land and Other Poems

ISBN: 9780156948777

42,48 PLN (BRUTTO)
This volume includes the title poem as well as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Gerontion," "Ash Wednesday," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and other poems from Eliot's early and middle work. "Eliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English" (Edmund Wilson).
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry

ISBN: 9780156957052

60,43 PLN (BRUTTO)
A classic that has been widely used by several generations, this book consists of detailed commentaries on ten famous English poems from the Elizabethan period to the present. Index.
The World Doesn't End

ISBN: 9780156983501

52,81 PLN (BRUTTO)
In this collection, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Charles Simic puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy and streetwise. Or cloak himself in antiquity. Simic has new eyes, and in these wonderful poems and poems-in-prose he lets the reader see through them.

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