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“alvaro mutis”

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  • Maqroll's Prayer and Other Poems

    Translated by Edith Grossman, Chris Andrews, Alastair Reid ...
    by Alvaro Mutis ...
    Álvaro Mutis’s fantastical, gripping, unnerving tales of the exploits and adventures of Maqroll, the Gaviero, or watchman, an inveterate wanderer both on land and sea, are among the most beloved works of twentieth-century Latin American fiction. Like the stories of Borges, like the novels of Mutis’s great friend García Márquez, they conjure a strange world of their own which also holds up a mirror ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Adventures of a Cello

    Revised Edition, with a New Epilogue

    by Carlos Prieto ...
    Translated by Elena C. Murray ...
    In 1720, Antonio Stradivari crafted an exquisite work of art—a cello known as the Piatti. Over the next three centuries of its life, the Piatti cello left its birthplace of Cremona, Italy, and resided in Spain, Ireland, England, Italy, Germany, and the United States. In 1978, the Piatti became the musical soul mate of world-renowned cellist Carlos Prieto, with whom it has given concerts around the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Love Poems

    by Pablo Neruda ...
    Translated by Donald D. Walsh ...
    Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie Il Postino, now in a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just to say "I love you!"Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems are the most celebrated of the Nobel Prize winner's oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images and reveling in a fiery re-imagining of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Captain's Verses: Love Poems

    Love Poems

    by Pablo Neruda ...
    The Nobel Prize winner 's classic collection of love poems.Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri—the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri's natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Poet in New York

    Translated by Pablo Medina ...
    by Federico García Lorca ...
    "The definitive version of Lorca's masterpiece, in language that is as alive and molten today as was the original." —John AshberyNewly translated for the first time in ten years, Federico García Lorca's Poet in New York is an astonishing depiction of a tumultuous metropolis that changed the course of poetic expression in both Spain and the Americas. Written during Lorca's nine months at Columbia ... Read more

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  • Neruda and Vallejo

    Selected Poems

    "Chilean Pablo Neruda is Latin America's greatest poet and one of the finest ever to have written in the Spanish language. The Peruvian poet, Cesar Vallejo, part Indian and born in a mining village, ranks not far below Neruda. Robert Bly is one of America's foremost poets, and a translator of uncommon brilliance. The combination makes for a priceless volume."—Long Beach Press TelegramFrom the ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • I Explain a Few Things

    Selected Poems

    by Pablo Neruda, Ilan Stavans ...
    "Laughter is the language of the soul," Pablo Neruda said. Among the most lasting voices of the most tumultuous (in his own words, "the saddest") century, a witness and a chronicler of its most decisive events, he is the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers, the emblem of the engaged poet, an artist whose heart, always with the people, is ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Poems of Octavio Paz

    by Octavio Paz ...
    Translated by Eliot Weinberger, Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Tomlinson ...
    Now in paperback, the definitive, life-spanning, bilingual edition of the poems by the Nobel Prize laureateThe Poems of Octavio Paz is the first retrospective collection of Paz’s poetry to span his entire writing career from his first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem. This landmark bilingual edition contains many poems that have never been translated into English ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Residence on Earth

    by Pablo Neruda, Donald D. Walsh ...
    Translated by Donald D. Walsh ...
    New Directions celebrates the Pablo Neruda Centennial.In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of a classic work in a timeless translation by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual. Residence on Earth is perhaps Neruda's greatest work. Upon its publication in 1973, this bilingual publication instantly became "a revolution... a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Times Alone

    Selected Poems of Antonio Machado

    by Antonio Machado ...
    Translated by Robert Bly ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry in Translation
    Antonio Machado, a school teacher and philosopher and one of Spain's foremost poets of the twentieth century, writes of the mountains, the skies, the farms and the sentiments of his homeland clearly and without narcissism: "Just as before, I'm interested/in water held in;/ but now water in the living/rock of my chest." "Machado has vowed not to soar too much; he wants to 'go down to the hells' or ... Read more

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  • Extracting the Stone of Madness

    Poems 1962 - 1972

    by Alejandra Pizarnik ...
    Translated by Yvette Siegert ...
    The first full-length collection in English by one of Latin America’s most significant twentieth-century poets.Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolaño, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962–1972 comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published verse. Obsessed with themes of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Complete Poetry

    A Bilingual Edition

    by César Vallejo ...
    This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman, includes the groundbreaking collections The Black Heralds (1918), Trilce (1922), ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD