Includes the uncollected longer poem "Wolf's Bean", several additional short poems, and the essay "On Translating Celan" in which the author discusses the challenges faced over many years in his engagement with Celan's poetry.
Shelley's conception of love lies at the heart of his radical views on social justice, political liberty, and poetry itself'. This title presents a portrait of this great poet's beliefs and personality developing from adolescence to the threshold of maturity, when at the age of thirty they were tragically cut short.
Charts the vigorous and diverse poetry that has been written in Ireland's southernmost province. This anthology of Munster poetry since 1849 illustrates the resurgence of Irish-language writing alongside writing in English.
Poetica 4 'Flower and song' was the ancient Mexican Aztecs' metaphor for poetry. Their brilliant poetic tradition has remained relatively unknown, despite the work of various scholars. This title presents the many facets of that extraordinary society before the Spanish Conquest. It gives us powerful echoes of the lyrical and philosophical songs.
Sarah Kirsch was a leading East German poet before leaving in 1977 for West Germany, where her work was already highly regarded. She has been the recipient of many literary awards, including the Austrian State Prize for Literature and the Friedrich Holderlin Prize, and is considered one of the most eminent German poets.
A selection from Peter Russell's work of many years that illustrates the range of a poet who, in Kathleen Raine's words, has 'kept faith (as did his master Ezra Pound) with what is perhaps the greatest imaginative and philosophical conception of the European tradition, 'the Beautiful".
In the four years between the appearance of his first collection of poems in 1961 and his death at the age of forty-eight, Johannes Bobrowski gained lasting international recognition as the outstanding East German poet of his time. This title presents a selection of his poems in English translation.
Tu Fu (712-770 AD) is China's greatest classical poet. He radically altered the poetry of the High Tang period, in addition to making formal innovations in language and structure, he extended the range of acceptable subject matter to include various aspects of public and private experience. This title presents his work in English.
Through the finely textured music of his poems, author explores emotional and spiritual intimacies while keeping a sharp observant eye on the everyday world.
