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The Brazen Plagiarist: Selected Poems

Product Description: A moving collection of poems by internationally acclaimed Greek poet Kiki Dimoula, brilliantly translated into English Kiki Dimoulaâs poetryâthe most praised and prized in contemporary Greek literatureâis a paradox, both mysteriously intricate and widely popular...read more

By Rika Lesser (trans)

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Hardcover:

9780300141399 | Yale Univ Pr, November 13, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Kiki Dimoulaâs poetryâthe most praised and prized in contemporary Greek literatureâis a paradox, both mysteriously intricate and widely popular.

Paperback:

9780300205732 | Italian edition edition (Yale Univ Pr, March 25, 2014), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A moving collection of poems by internationally acclaimed Greek poet Kiki Dimoula, brilliantly translated into English Kiki Dimoulaâs poetryâthe most praised and prized in contemporary Greek literatureâis a paradox, both mysteriously intricate and widely popular.

A Hand Full of Stars

A teenager who wants to be a journalist in a suppressed society describes to his diary his daily life in his hometown of Damascus, Syria

By Rika Lesser (trans)

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Paperback:

9781566568401 | Interlink Pub Group Inc, May 1, 2012, cover price $15.00

Reinforced:

9780606017022 | Demco Media, August 1, 1992, cover price $12.30 | About this edition: A teenager who wants to be a journalist in a suppressed society describes to his diary his daily life in his hometown of Damascus, Syria

Questions of Love: New and Selected Poems

Product Description: â...This time, and in a very different place, the poet ventures upon a much more perilous dig, framing an archeology of the self which requires not only testimony but evidence, not only comment but construction. She disinters along âboundaries of painâ which Dickinson, her surest mentor, identifies as âcapacious as the sea...read more

By Rika Lesser

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Paperback:

9781931357609 | Sheep Meadow Pr, November 28, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: â.

Guide to the Underworld

Product Description: As Virgil guided Dante through the inferno, so the great Swedish poet Gunnar EkelÃ¶f guides us through his (and our own) underworld of dreams and visions, an underworld peopled by the voices of nameless shadows.

By Rika Lesser (trans)

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Paperback:

9781933382388 | Green Integer Books, March 30, 2013, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: As Virgil guided Dante through the inferno, so the great Swedish poet Gunnar EkelÃ¶f guides us through his (and our own) underworld of dreams and visions, an underworld peopled by the voices of nameless shadows.

Hansel and Gretel

A poor woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon a house made of bread, cakes, and candy, occupied by a wicked witch who likes to have children for dinner

By Rika Lesser and Paul O. Zelinsky (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9780399217258 | Reprint edition (Putnam Pub Group, May 1, 1989), cover price $7.95 | also contains Ontario Garlic: The Story from Farm to Festival | About this edition: A poor woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon a house made of bread, cakes, and candy, occupied by a wicked witch who likes to have children for dinner

Reinforced:

9780606042413 | Demco Media, May 1, 1989, cover price $15.81 | also contains Hansel and Gretel | About this edition: A poor woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon a house made of bread, cakes, and candy, occupied by a wicked witch who likes to have children for dinner

Prebinding:

9781435294943 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $15.99 | also contains Hansel and Gretel

9780833530127 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: A poor woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon a house made of bread, cakes, and candy, occupied by a wicked witch who likes to have children for dinner

Siddhartha

Product Description: text book

By Rika Lesser (trans)

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Hardcover:

9780132582513, titled "Elementary Linear Algebra: With Applications" | Prentice Hall, June 1, 1979, cover price $51.15 | also contains Elementary Linear Algebra: With Applications | About this edition: text book

Growing Back: Poems, 1972-1992

Product Description: This collection of Lesser's poetry is a bridge spanning the poets and languages, family and friends she has made her life and her work. The three sections of the volume explore her long relation to Sweden - her adoptive country, her return home, and her preoccupation with translation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Rika Lesser

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Hardcover:

9781570032325 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This collection of Lesser's poetry is a bridge spanning the poets and languages, family and friends she has made her life and her work.

Paperback:

9781570032332, titled "Growing Back: Poems 1972-1992" | Univ of South Carolina Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Growing Back, Rika Lesser's third collection of poetry, is a bridge that spans the poets and languages, family and friends she has made her life and its work.

What Became Words: Poems

Product Description: tr from Finland-Swedish by Rika Lesser, bilingual (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Claes Andersson and Rika Lesser (trans)

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Paperback:

9781557133021 | Sun & Moon Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: tr from Finland-Swedish by Rika Lesser, bilingual

All We Need of Hell: Poems

Product Description: Much of what Rika Lesser has to say can be compared to the poetry of Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Ann Sexton, Delmore Schwartz, and other poets who have struggled with manic-depressive illness. What sets her poetry apart, according to Richard Howard, is Âthe plot and purpose of her sequence to take us through the harrowing experiences she creates in her lines, and out the other side ...read more

By Rika Lesser

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Hardcover:

9780929398853 | Reprint edition (Univ of North Texas Pr, June 1, 1995), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Much of what Rika Lesser has to say can be compared to the poetry of Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Ann Sexton, Delmore Schwartz, and other poets who have struggled with manic-depressive illness.

Paperback:

9780929398921 | Univ of North Texas Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $12.95

My Sister Lotta and Me

Two sisters living in a dollhouse share all kinds of activities and adventures.

By Helena Dahlback, Helena Dahlback-Lutteman, Rika Lesser and Charlotte Ramel (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780805025583 | Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 1993, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Fantasy and reality are blurred as a little girl and her sister, Lotta, bake cakes, play with Lotta's secret treasures, and discuss how they look

A Child Is Not a Knife: Selected Poems of Goran Sonnevi

Product Description: GÃ¶ran Sonnevi is one of Sweden's most celebrated, respected, and prolific poets. For this first book-length selection of Sonnevi to appear in English, Rika Lesser has chosen works written between 1971 and 1989--although most of the poems come from the last decade and from Sonnevi's last three books, which form part of the single oÃ¤ndlig [unending/infinite/interminable] poem that he continues to write from book to book...read more

By Rika Lesser and Goran Sonnevi

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Paperback:

9780691015439 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 22, 1993, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: GÃ¶ran Sonnevi is one of Sweden's most celebrated, respected, and prolific poets.

A Living Soul

Product Description: The protagonist of this mild satire - is a human brain floating in an aquarium - The bodiless Ypsilon, expected to be an unemotional intellect, feels lonely. Beause he is lovesick over a pretty lab assistant, Ypsilon chooses not to respond to elaborate educational regiments - With the aid of a chimpanzee and a detached human hand, he makes detailed plans for an impractical escape - Amusing and phantasmagoric...read more

By P. C. Jersild and Rika Lesser (trans)

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Paperback:

9781870041096 | Norvik Pr, December 1, 1988, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The protagonist of this mild satire - is a human brain floating in an aquarium - The bodiless Ypsilon, expected to be an unemotional intellect, feels lonely.

Rilke: Between Roots

Product Description: The Description for this book, Rilke: Between Roots. Selected Poems Rendered from the German by Rika Lesser, will be forthcoming.

By Rika Lesser

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Paperback:

9780691014296 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1986, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The Description for this book, Rilke: Between Roots.

Etruscan Things

A series of poems explores the way of life of the ancient Etruscan people of Italy

By Rika Lesser

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Hardcover:

9780807610589 | 1 edition (George Braziller, March 1, 1983), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A series of poems explores the way of life of the ancient Etruscan people of Italy

Paperback:

9780807610596 | 1 edition (George Braziller, March 1, 1983), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A series of poems explores the way of life of the ancient Etruscan people of Italy

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