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Poetry

Hardback. With the discovery in 1896 of a papyrus containing Bacchylides' work, 1,382 lines were reassembled and the poems of Bacchylides finally began to take shape for the modern reader. This book argues that, although Bacchylides is often considered a "lesser Pindar," he is a poet who warrants consideration. Translator(s): Slavitt, David. Num Pages: 104 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812234473
ISBN
9780812234473
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.58

paperback. Num Pages: 279 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
279
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780813108070
ISBN
9780813108070
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.29

Paperback. Num Pages: 261 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813108353
ISBN
9780813108353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.54

Paperback. Series: Kentucky Voices. Num Pages: 98 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
98
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813165721
ISBN
9780813165721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.38

Hardback. Described as Tasso's most ambitious project, this epic poem, part history, part fiction, is based on the events of the First Crusade, and was composed upon his release from a seven year confinement in Ferrara. This translation into English also contains the original Italian text. Translator(s): Passaro, Maria Pastore. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 24. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823216338
ISBN
9780823216338
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.29

Hardback. The poems in this volume draw from a legacy larger than the limits of personal history, body and brand. They reflect a world that contains AIDS and cancer, and Caravaggio and van der Werff. Nature, interpersonal relationships, and the cultures of the world are all fair game. Num Pages: 79 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 14. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
79
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823221516
ISBN
9780823221516
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.95

paperback. The poems in this volume draw from a legacy larger than the limits of personal history, body and brand. They reflect a world that contains AIDS and cancer, and Caravaggio and van der Werff. Nature, interpersonal relationships, and the cultures of the world are all fair game. Num Pages: 79 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 8. Weight in Grams: 137.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
79
Condition
New
Edition
2nd Edition
SKU
V9780823221523
ISBN
9780823221523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.64

Paperback. Julie Sheehan's Thaw is the second winner of the annual Poets Out Loud Prize for a book of poetry published each year by Fordham University Press in coordination with Fordham's Poets Out Loud program. Series: Poets Out Loud. Num Pages: 66 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 117.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
66
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823221691
ISBN
9780823221691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.45

Paperback. Includes poems that convey a metaphysical meaning as well as a bodily intimacy. Series: Poets Out Loud. Num Pages: 82 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 6. Weight in Grams: 139.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
82
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823225477
ISBN
9780823225477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.79

Hardback. Presents a collection of ninety-two poems spanning several decades. This work contains poems that reflect interests in philosophy, the history of religions, and, in particular, the mystical dimensions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 239.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823228201
ISBN
9780823228201
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.65

Hardback. A collection of poems that celebrates and laments that "we are but decaying." Series: Poets Out Loud. Num Pages: 84 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 213 x 13. Weight in Grams: 369.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823228560
ISBN
9780823228560
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.63

Paperback. A collection of poems that celebrates and laments that "we are but decaying." Series: Poets Out Loud. Num Pages: 84 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 204 x 6. Weight in Grams: 182.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823228577
ISBN
9780823228577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.08

Hardback. Presents a series of prose poems that draw their inspiration from the great Sufi poet of mediaeval Andalusia, Ibn Arabi, whose fervent love poetry both scandalized and transformed Islamic culture, and from Dante, who learned from Ibn Arabi a poetry of sensual love as initiation into spiritual experience. Translator(s): Mandell, Charlotte. Num Pages: 116 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBT; BGA; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
116
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231140
ISBN
9780823231140
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.84

Hardback. Presents a truly international selection of works by more than seventy Italian-language poets who are writing in countries from Australia to Venezuela Editor(s): Bonaffini, Luigi. Num Pages: 1115 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 4531 x 6466 x 61. Weight in Grams: 2473.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
1115
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823232536
ISBN
9780823232536
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 165.35

paperback. Poetry. This text explores themes of familiarity and strangeness, asking the reader to consider the differences between them and where they overlap. Sampling from all forms of communication, the author implores us to greet the unknown and to listen in turn. Series: Poets Out Loud. Num Pages: 94 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 13. Weight in Grams: 137.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
94
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823242306
ISBN
9780823242306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.64

Paperback. In Fannie + Freddie/The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography, Amy Sara Carroll 'undocuments' the quotidian's shades of gray/grey, the contingencies of post-Fordist relationality in the pre-Occupy window of time between September 11, 2001 and the 2008 Great Recession. Series: Poets Out Loud. Num Pages: 104 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 182.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823250912
ISBN
9780823250912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.97

Hardback. This book is a genre history that traces the second life, in the nineteenth century, of a poetic form that had enjoyed its original heyday three hundred years earlier. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838636305
ISBN
9780838636305
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.52

Hardback. Identifying sacramentalism as the key to the poetry and spirituality of Gerard Manley Hopkins, this study suggests that Hopkins most dominantly emphasized the sacramental Mystical Body of the Church and that his poems aspire to see past the outscape of nature and humanity to revelations of spiritual inscape. Num Pages: 221 pages. BIC Classification: AC; DCF; DSBF; DSC; HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838751381
ISBN
9780838751381
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.41

Paperback. Tells through poetry, eyewitness accounts, and a moving historical narrative the tangled web of Lithuanian Jewish history. This title reports on the events during the summer of 1941 when the Jews of Keidan, a Lithuanian shtetl [village], were systematically massacred by local towns people. Translator(s): Wolpe, David. Num Pages: 101 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
101
Condition
New
SKU
V9780845348901
ISBN
9780845348901
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.89

Paperback. For 30 years Anvil championed the idea of poetry as a free space for the imagination and spirit. In the process the press has gained recognition as one of the liveliest publishers of British and international poetry. This book celebrates that endeavour with the author's selection of the most memorable poetry he has encountered since 1968. Editor(s): Jay, Peter. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 329.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856463013
ISBN
9780856463013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.32

Paperback. Addresses subjects wrested from a stark, natural world of 'fire and ash' desert tints, and its diverse, vital heritage, with a rare sensitivity to the life of things. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 134 x 7. Weight in Grams: 101.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856463174
ISBN
9780856463174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.48

Paperback. Presents a selection of Justo Jorge Padron's (one of the representative poets of the Spanish Generation of the 1970s) works. This book offers a wide selection from Padron's thirteen Spanish volumes since 1989 including his last English collection, "On the Cutting Edge". Translator(s): Bourne, Louis. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856463464
ISBN
9780856463464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.32

Paperback. Includes poems which celebrate active life, vigorous sexuality, and the subtle steps of the tango. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 207.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856463648
ISBN
9780856463648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.23

paperback. A collection of poems where triolets, quatrains and villanelles are interspersed with finely modulated free verse, with echoes of the modern masters and their obsessive focus on uncomfortable truths. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 6. Weight in Grams: 104.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780856463655
ISBN
9780856463655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.21

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