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Dunya Mikhail
Tablets

"A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth"-Dunya MikhailIn her marvelous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets of the Clay, Dunya Mikhail transforms the world's…

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Dante Alighieri,
Vita Nuova

Part love story, part instruction manual, part spiritual journey, Dante's "little book", the Vita Nuova , has had a profound and far-reaching influence on global culture and is considered by man…

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Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Algarabía

A Puerto Rican trans epic that blends poetic play and speculative fiction, by a Lambda Literary Award winnerUna epopeya puertorriqueña trans que mezcla poesía y narrativa especulativa, por un ganador del …

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Dante Alighieri,
The Divine Comedy

When Michael Palma's translation of the Inferno appeared in 2002, it defied the conventional wisdom of literary commentators who had long argued that Dante's intricate terza rima form simply could not be …

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Mary Jo Bang
Paradiso

The epic conclusion of Mary Jo Bang's celebrated translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy

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Emily Hauser
How Women Became Poets

How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one---aoidos , or "singer-man." The most fam…

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Linda Jones Hall
The Poems of Optatian

"For the first time, the poems and accompanying letters of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius (Optatian) are published here with a translation and detailed commentary, along with a full introduction to O…

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Al-An&,
The Book of Rain

The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud.So begins translator David Larsen's introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, by early Arabic linguist…

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Maria Kanellou
Erotic Greek Epigram

Despite its small size, epigram attracted some of the best poetic talents of antiquity, exerting a strong influence on Latin literature and continuing to inspire poetic creativity until our days.

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The Ten Thousand Leaves

"The first and greatest anthology of classical Japanese poetry, the Man'yoshu is considered, along with Tale of Genji, to be one of the two most important works in classical Japanese literature"…

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Emily Hauser
Penelope's Bones

"Three millennia ago, in an ancient Greece where men spoke and women were silenced, some of the world's first epics were born: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. But these are not just tales about heroic men…

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Rumi,
The Flame of Love

A smoldering collection of 100 love poems by master poet Rumi that will set fire to even the iciest of hearts. Accompanied by charming illustrations throughout, The Flame of Love explores the depths of pa…

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Stephen Harrison,
The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII

"A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in the 15th century, this book offers translations of and commentaries on the major poem…

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The Serpent and the Fire

"No one taught me more about poetry than Jerome Rothenberg."--Nick Cave"Embracing the Americas as 'a self-perpetuating work in progress, ' this book honors poetry as ungovernable, as a fiel…

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Jonathan S Burgess
The Travels of Odysseus

The various travels of the hero Odysseus are explored to contextualize Homer's Odyssey and analyze the nature of the hero's character.

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Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver
Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…

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Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver
Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…

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Bernardo Ballesteros
Divine Assemblies in Early Greek and Babylonian Epic

This book is the first to chart divine assembly scenes in ancient Babylonian and early Greek epic. It asks why similarities between the two corpora exist, and exploits those similarities to enhance unders…

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Laozi,
DAO de Jing

A landmark translation of the timeless classic of Daoist wisdom, rendered in gorgeous poetry that illuminates its enduring teachings.

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Jim Ghedi

In The Furrows Of Common Place

Product Information "Instead of landscape sketches I wanted to go into more personal areas of my reality", says Jim Ghedi of his third album In The Furrows Of Common Place. "To hold up certain aspects o…

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