Umberto Saba’s reputation in Italy and Europe has steadily grown since his death in 1957, and today he is positioned alongside Eugenio Montale and Giuseppe Ungaretti as one of the three most important Italian poets of the first half of the twentieth century. Until now, however, English-language readers have had access to only a few examples of this poet’s work. This bilingual volume at last brings an extensive and exquisitely translated collection of Saba’s poems to English-speaking readers. Both faithful and lyrical, George Hochfield’s and Leonard Nathan’s translations do justice to Saba’s rigorous personal honesty and his profound awareness of the suffering that was for him coincident with life. An introductory essay, a translation of Saba’s early manifesto, “What Remains for Poets to Do,” and a chronology of his life situate his poetics within the larger context of twentieth-century letters. With its publication, this volume provides the English-speaking world with a momentous occasion to rethink not just Italian poetry but also the larger European modernist project.

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An account of the author's quest to spot the snow bunting relates birdwatching adventures, dreams, poems, and conversations with friends

The first English-language collection of poetry by the prize-winning, contemporary Dutch novelist and essayist offers a wry mix of avant-garde language and precise, realistic images. Original. IP.

Product Description: Born eighty years ago in Lithuania, Czeslaw Milosz has been acclaimed “one of the greatest poets of our time, perhaps the greatest” (Joseph Brodsky). This self-described “connoisseur of heavens and abysses” has produced a corpus of poems, essays, memoirs, and fiction of such depth and range that the reader's imagination is moved far beyond ordinary limits of consciousness...read more

Product Description: Book by Wat, Aleksander, Milosz, Czeslaw

Poems deal with friendship, love, nature, human accomplishment, the relationship between men and women, violence, generosity, and mortality

Product Description: A valuable reference work for students, scholars, researchers, and those interested in the economy, politics, and culture of Slovenia.

Product Description: Translators Leonard Nathan and James Larson present seventy-five poems from Gunnar Ekelof's middle phase (1938-1959), a period that saw the production of his richest and most enduring poetry.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press...read more

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Product Description: Approx. 56 poems include The Kernel, Like us may be, Nurse, When the great aptitudes, Outside the wall etc.