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“pablo palacio”

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  • Man Brought to Gallows

    by Pablo Palacio ...
    Translated by Paula Catalina Fajardo Riofrío ...
    This story goes from here to its start, at the first morning of May; follows through these same pages, and when it arrives here again, again it starts there... Such was his enlightened hallucination.The problem of art is a problem of translations. Decomposition and sorting of forms, sounds and thoughts. Things and ideas are getting old. You only have the power to cover them with saliva.It is clear ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Cup of Rage

    Translated by Stefan Tobler ...
    by Raduan Nassar ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize'A savagely short novel of immeasurable ambition and violent beauty. This is the language of genius.' Juan Pablos Villalobos'How often, honestly, does the unveiling in translation of a 'forgotten genius' live up to the hype? Well here's one that does: Raduan Nassar' Times Literary Supplement'Yes, bastard, you're the one I love'A pair of lover... ... Read more

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  • There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Russell ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    A new selection of poetry from the generation-defining author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, translated for the first time into EnglishWhile Tove Ditlevsen is now famous around the world as an extraordinary prose writer, in Denmark she has also long been celebrated as a poet. She published her first collection in her early twenties, and continued writing and publishing poetry until the end of her life ... Read more

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  • Love Poems

    by Jaime Sabines ...
    Translated by Colin Carberry ...
    Series Book 7 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    the first english edition of Sabines' love poems to appear in englishwill appeal to a general poetry readership as well as academics, Spanish studies programsone of the most celebrated Mexican & Spanish-language poets of the 20th century ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry

    by William Carlos Williams ...
    This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of his life. The first section, Pictures from Brueghel, contains previously uncollected short poems, while the second and third parts are the complete texts of The Desert Music (1954) and Journey to Love (1955), originally published by Random House.This collection makes available work of one of our ... Read more

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  • Some Trees

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    by John Ashbery ...
    John Ashbery's first published book of poems, handpicked from the slush pile by none other than W. H. AudenAshbery's Some Trees narrowly beat out a manuscript by fellow New York poet Frank O'Hara to win the renowned Yale Series of Younger Poets prize in 1955—after the book had been rejected in an early screening round. Competition judge W. H. Auden was perhaps the first to note, in his original ... Read more

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  • Imaginations

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    by William Carlos Williams ...
    Imaginations makes accessible to the broad reading public live early books by William Carlos Williams, which, except for Kora in Hell, have long been hard to find in their original and complete forms.Written between 1920 and 1932, all five were first published in small editions, three of them in France. These are pivotal and seminal works, books in which a great writer was charting the course he ... Read more

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  • The Double Dream of Spring

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    by John Ashbery ...
    One of Ashbery's most important masterworks: Widely studied, critically admired, and essential to understanding one of the modern era's most revolutionary poetsThe Double Dream of Spring, originally published in 1970, followed the critical success of John Ashbery's National Book Award–nominated collection Rivers and Mountains and introduced the signature voice—reflective, acute, and attuned to ... Read more

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    Selected Poems

    by Adélia Prado ...
    Translated by Ellen Watson ...
    Poetry that eloquently concentrates on the spiritual and physical lives of women.This is the first book published in English by of the work of Brazilian poet Adélia Prado. Incorporating poems published over the past fifteen years, The Alphabet in the Park is a book of passion and intelligence, wit and instinct. These are poems about human concerns, especially those of women, about living in one's ... Read more

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  • Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue

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    by Tony Kushner ...
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  • Only Sing

    152 Uncollected Dream Songs

    by John Berryman ...
    The never-before-published poems of one of the greatest American poets, John Berryman.John Berryman’s Dream Songs are arguably the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly sketched adventures of a uniquely American antihero named Henry. Henry falls in and out of love, and is in and out of the ... Read more

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