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Paperback. Ema Saiko (1787-1861) was a remarkably evocative poet, one of the few known woman writers of kanshi poems--verse written in classical Chinese but read as Japanese. Writing in this form, Saiko distinguished herself during the Tokugawa period, when composition in Chinese was largely a men's province. Translator(s): Sato, Hiroaki. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 216 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 202 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231110655
ISBN
9780231110655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.47

Paperback. The renowned Hatfield edition of Bronte's poetry is a body of work that continues to resonate today. It includes Emily's verse from Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, as well as 200 works collected from various manuscript sources after her death in 1848. Editor(s): Hatfield, C. W. Num Pages: 262 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231103473
ISBN
9780231103473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.61

Hardback. Including the classics of the genre as well as rare period pieces by African Americans and women, and northern and southern patriotic verse and songs, The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry paints the background of the conflict and its literature, with each poem introduced by a compelling vignette. Editor(s): Frome, Keith. Num Pages: 543 pages, 53 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DC; DSBF; DSC; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 210 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1362.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
543
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231100021
ISBN
9780231100021
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.61

Paperback. The first anthology of Sung dynasty tz'u poems available in English, Beyond Spring provides a representative body of translations, 150 in all. Keeping true to the original music, Landau's faithful translations capture the phrasing and rhythms crucial to Tz'u. Translator(s): Landau, Julie. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 274 pages, glossary. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231096799
ISBN
9780231096799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.61

Paperback. Editor(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 385 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231056830
ISBN
9780231056830
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.61

Paperback. Andrea Zanzotto is widely considered Italy's most influential living poet. This book includes the very best poems from fourteen of his major books of verse and a selection of thirteen essays that helps illuminate themes in his poetry as well as elucidate key theoretical underpinnings of his thought. Editor(s): Barron, Patrick. Translator(s): Feldman, Ruth; Harrison, Thomas J.; Swann, Brian; Welle, John P.; Wilkins, Elizabeth A. Num Pages: 482 pages, 12 halftones, 41 line drawings. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 26. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
482
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226978857
ISBN
9780226978857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.74

Hardback. Andrea Zanzotto is widely considered Italy's most influential living poet. This book includes the very best poems from fourteen of his major books of verse and a selection of thirteen essays that helps illuminate themes in his poetry as well as elucidate key theoretical underpinnings of his thought. Editor(s): Barron, Patrick. Translator(s): Barron, Patrick; Feldman, Ruth; Harrison, Thomas J.; Swann, Brian; Welle, John P.; Wilkins, Elizabeth A. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12 halftines, 41 line drawings. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 37. Weight in Grams: 834.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226978840
ISBN
9780226978840
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.29
€ 46.02

Paperback. The notion of the disposable camera permeates the entire book, where the author considers the instabilities in even our deepest attachments. Here gulfs expand, for instance, between twins, between the musician and his instrument, between the recluse and his inconsolable solitude. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226924113
ISBN
9780226924113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226899497
ISBN
9780226899497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.66

Paperback. From nursery rhymes to riddles to prose poems, this collection intertwines the literary and the personal, the elevated and the slang, and the sacred and the profane. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 72 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 6. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226885766
ISBN
9780226885766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.00

Hardcover. Regarded as one of Europe's most important poets of the late nineteenth century, Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902) provided the modern poetic foundations for the reemergence of Catalan literature after three centuries of the language's suppression by Spain's absolutist monarchs. This book presents the translation of Verdaguer's works into English. Editor(s): Puppo, Ronald. Translator(s): Puppo, Ronald. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Bilingual edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226853000
ISBN
9780226853000
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.53

Paperback. The first Jewish woman to leave her mark as a writer and intellectual, Sarra Copia Sulam (1600-41) was doubly tainted in the eyes of early modern society by her religion and her gender. This book features a collection of Sulam's writings including letters, sonnets, and a manifesto. Editor(s): Harran, Don. Num Pages: 512 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: DCF; DN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 826.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226779898
ISBN
9780226779898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 40.97

Paperback. Gaspara Stampa (1523-1554) is one of the finest female poets ever to write in Italian. This title translation of Stampa into English collects all of her passionate and lyrical verse. Editor(s): Tower, Troy; Tylus, Jane. Translator(s): Tylus, Jane. Num Pages: 490 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
490
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226770727
ISBN
9780226770727
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.13

Paperback. From Tuscaloosa west to Mississippi then north to Memphis through country as unmusical as I was unloved by the decorous ardor of the South and the voice of one whose griefs were Cherokee, absentee, left in the Chevy and secret. She didn't love my love like Shiva's everywhere and blue and many-handed, some with knives and some with billet-doux. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1ST
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226764351
ISBN
9780226764351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.25

Paperback. In "The Chain", Sleigh explores the nature of memory and its ability to recast events in contradictory ways as it links individual lives to history. The book takes the form of a series of elegies, portraits and love poems. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 104 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 9. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226762418
ISBN
9780226762418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.00

Paperback. Revealing a world troubled by difference while struggling toward commonality, from the mythic past to the abrasive intimacies of the present, this collection of poems charts the ways social and sexual identities are formed, threatened, altered and preserved. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 104 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 10. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226750316
ISBN
9780226750316
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.00

Paperback. A sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy-speaker called Romey, set alongside a river in the South Carolina lowcountry. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226719443
ISBN
9780226719443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.50

Hardcover. From the Baltimore Catechism to the great noir films of the last century to today's Elvis impersonators and Paris Hilton, this book tracks the snares, abrasions, and hijinks of personal identities in our society of the spectacle, a place where who we say we are, and who we think we are, fade in and out of consciousness. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226673394
ISBN
9780226673394
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.77

Paperback. A collection that carries the poet's themes of family and friends, responsibility to the natural world of evolved diversity, the transience of life, the fragility of happiness, and the consolations offered by art and music. Num Pages: 160 pages, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226644196
ISBN
9780226644196
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.84

Paperback. This volume brings together James McMichael's poetry and includes works that have previously remained unpublished. James McMichael is the recipient of a Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship and a Whiting Foundation Writer's Award. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226561059
ISBN
9780226561059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. The poems in this collection are the product of a clash of cultures: Southern, religious and gay. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226527987
ISBN
9780226527987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.00

Paperback. Includes poems that sift layers of natural and human history across several continents, observing paintings, archaeological digs, cityscapes, seascapes, landscapes. Employing an impressive array of traditional meters and various kinds of free verse, this title celebrates communities both invented and real. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226526140
ISBN
9780226526140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.25

Paperback. Now, from the sweet fragrance of roses, bitterness stings our nostrils. The bay's withdrawn from us, the beach is littered with broken things - splintered oars, bits of old clay pipe from a long ago shipwreck, fragments of china plates. Enchanting, those days my townspeople scavenged rare cargo, furnishing their long winters with random wares. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 79 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
79
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226514413
ISBN
9780226514413
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.25

Paperback. Chiara Matraini was a member of the great flowering of poetic imitators and innovators in the Italian literary heritage begun by Petrarch. She excelled in a number of literary genres - poetry, religious meditation, discourse, and dialogue. This book is a collection of her erotic love poetry and poems on spiritual salvation. Editor(s): Maclachlan, Elaine. Translator(s): Maclachlan, Elaine. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 232 pages, 5 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226510859
ISBN
9780226510859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 34.48

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