Category - Poetry
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Vita Nuova: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text
PaperbackOriginal price $13.00 - Original price $13.00Original price $13.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A sparkling translation that gives new life in English to Dante’s Vita Nuova, his transcendent love poems and influential statement on the art an...
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The Celtic Twilight
HardcoverOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /The Celtic Twilight (1893) is a collection of stories written and edited by W.B. Yeats. Compiled at the height of the Celtic Twilight, a movement...
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The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda: Japan's Most Beloved Modern Haiku Poet: Includes a Translation of Santoka's "Diary of the One-Grass Hut"
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The fascinating and quirky biography of a disheveled poet, skillfully interwoven with his original works.Zen monk Santoka Taneda (1882-1940) is o...
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The Celtic Twilight
PaperbackOriginal price $6.99 - Original price $6.99Original price $6.99$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /The Celtic Twilight (1893) is a collection of stories written and edited by W.B. Yeats. Compiled at the height of the Celtic Twilight, a movement...
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Writing Haiku: A Beginner's Guide to Composing Japanese Poetry - Includes Tanka, Renga, Haiga, Senryu and Haibun
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A world of dewAnd within every dewdropA world of struggle The iconic three-line haiku form is increasingly popular today as people embrace its si...
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Stumbling Blocks and Other Unfinished Work
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Stumbling Blocks expands and contextualizes the unpublished works of the late African American writer Delores Phillips. Born in Cartersville, Georg...
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /The classic Christmas tale, with beautiful new illustrations This gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old for over half a century and...
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Little Labors
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /In paperback at last: Rivka Galchen’s beloved baby bible—slyly hilarious, surprising, and absolutely essential reading for anyone who has ever ha...
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Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A masterful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature—part travelogue, part haiku collection, part account of spiritua...
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
PaperbackOriginal price $9.95 - Original price $9.95Original price $9.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The classic Christmas tale, with beautiful new illustrations This gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old for over half a century and...
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Rupert Brooke of Rugby
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /When Rupert Brooke died of blood poisoning on his way to fight the Turkish forces at Gallipoli in 1915, his friends in England were quick to turn h...
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The Sarashina nikki
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Sugawara no Takasue no Musume (1008-59), a lady-in-waiting to Princess Sukeko, is a typical exponent of Heian court culture-her sharp awareness of ...
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The Izumi Shikibu nikki
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Izumi Shikibu (978- ), author, femme fatale, and prominent member of the Heian court, was first and foremost a poet--the greatest of her time, perh...
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Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac Gaarriye: Biography and Poems
PaperbackOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac "Gaarriye" (1951-2012) was a well-known Somali speaking contemporary poet. Originally from Hargeysa, Somaliland he was among ...
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A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Haiku: Major Works by Japan's Best-Loved Poets - From Basho and Issa to Ryokan and Santoka, with Works by Six Women Poe
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An old pond;a frog jumps in: the sound of water -- Basho This comprehensive introduction to Japan's best-loved haiku poets is the perfect book for...
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Yone Noguchi: The Stream of Fate Volume One The Western Sea
HardcoverOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /Yone Noguchi: The Stream of Fate is the first full-length biography of the pioneering international Japanese poet Yone Noguchi (1875-1947). Volume ...
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The Glamour Poet vs. Francis Bacon, Rent and Eyelinered Pussycat Dolls
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The first book of Jeremy Reed's uncompromising, explicitly autobiographical expose of his life as a leading London poet from the 1980s to the prese...
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Nizar Qabbani: Women in My Poetry and in My Life: Translated into English with an Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $30.25 - Original price $30.25Original price $30.25$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In Nizar Qabbani's own words: "This book in which I have collected some of my dialogues with the press... and excerpts from TV interviews concernin...
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Maisha ni kugharimia: French edition
PaperbackOriginal price $9.00 - Original price $9.00Original price $9.00$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Autobiographie en kiswahili d'un magistrat et po te tanzanien Le texte en kiswahili de ce livre correspond au manuscrit de l'autobiographie de Math...
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Nizar Qabbani: My Story with Poetry - "An Autobiography"
PaperbackOriginal price $40.25 - Original price $40.25Original price $40.25$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /As the title of this book indicates, this is Nizar's journey in life as a student, a son, a man, a lover, a revolutionary, a rebel, a diplomat, a p...
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We are Michael Field
HardcoverOriginal price $30.99 - Original price $30.99Original price $30.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In this profile, Emma Donoghue tells the story of two eccentric Victorian spinsters: Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862...
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Wild Blessings: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, spirituality, and mortality, poet Lucille Clifton has published thirteen volumes...
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On Czeslaw Milosz: Visions from the Other Europe
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Czeslaw Milosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed wri...
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Chasing the Modern: The Twentieth-Century Life of Poet Xu Zhimo
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /At the height of his literary prowess, Xu Zhimo was the most famous living poet in all of China. With his round spectacles and aristocratic profile...
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