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Paperback. Often overshadowed by the magnificence of his achievements as a visual artist is Michelangelo's devotion to poetry. Here is a collection of his poetic works translated to capture all the pathos, complexity, and ardor of both his language and his poetic temperament. Translator(s): Nims, John Frederick. Num Pages: 198 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 226 x 11. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226080307
ISBN
9780226080307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.41

Paperback. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 80 pages, viii, 70 p. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 7. Weight in Grams: 141.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226096155
ISBN
9780226096155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.23

Paperback. The evening beyond each chain-lit match seemed to crouch in the shapes of houses, then rose to play havoc in a veil of dogwoods. Based on a logic that considers the atomic symbol an improvised phoneme, this book is keenly attuned to the qualities of voice and concerned with how these improvisations fall on the listening ear. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 8. Weight in Grams: 113.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226096193
ISBN
9780226096193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.36

Paperback. Both intensely personal and deeply rooted in recognizable events of a personal, familial, or national significance, "The Afterlife of Objects" is a kind of dreamed autobiography. Dan Chiasson divulges the enigmas of the mind through a beautifully constructed poetic voice. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 146.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226103785
ISBN
9780226103785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.14

Paperback. Whether speaking in the voice of a weaver trying to quell a violent crowd or in his own voice as a mill employee, Michael Chitwood seeks to bring together many social and historical threads to show the pattern of a people and a place that has received little treatment in American poetry. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226103983
ISBN
9780226103983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.09

Paperback. Features poems which suggest that we discover what we love by fighting, by bringing our angry, hungry, imperfect selves into the battle. 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
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226109282
ISBN
9780226109282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.17

Paperback. Where are we going? What are we doing here? you don't ask, you don't notice the blur of stations we're racing past, the others out there watching in the dim light, baffled, who for a moment thought the train was theirs. This book offers a collection of poetry. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 217 x 8. Weight in Grams: 134.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226110639
ISBN
9780226110639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.36

Paperback. Offers a collection of formal poems and measured free verse unified by its investigation of our poetic, mythic, and scientific fascination with birds of prey: hawks, eagles, owls, vultures, and falcons. Drawing on his own experience working at a raptor rehabilitation center, the author shows these killing birds to be mirrors for humanity. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 113.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Original
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226240398
ISBN
9780226240398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.36

Paperback. A collection of poems that focus on feelings of intimacy and familiarity. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 6. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226244709
ISBN
9780226244709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.41

Paperback. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 74 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 7. Weight in Grams: 141.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
74
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226244792
ISBN
9780226244792
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.23

Paperback. Brings together the poems/translations of American poet, David Ferry. The text includes his books "Strangers" and "Dwelling Places", selections from "On the Way to the Island" and selections from his translations of the Babylonian epic "Gilgamesh", the "Odes of Horace" and Virgil's "Eclogues". Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226244877
ISBN
9780226244877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.14

Paperback. The adventures and challenges of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's nephew and a knight at the Round Table, including his duel with the mysterious Green Knight, are among the oldest and best known of Arthurian stories. Besides the tale of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", this title includes an introduction to the works of the Gawain poet. Illustrator(s): Kredel, Fritz. Translator(s): Gardner, John. Num Pages: 218 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226283289
ISBN
9780226283289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.41

Paperback. This book of poetry explores common themes such as love, loss, and family with an uncommon sensibility. It is filled with metaphors, unconventional and unpredictable juxtapositions, turns and angles of perception and free verse rhythms. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 64 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 6. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226284118
ISBN
9780226284118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.14

Paperback. A meditation on the body as a source of joy, anxiety, and regeneration, this collection extends the capacity of the lyric to articulate human feeling while considering the complications of love, both human and divine, and the distinctions between them. It is more deeply an attempt to focus on the process of human creativity in general. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 140.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226293301
ISBN
9780226293301
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.36

Paperback. A collection of Fulke Greville's short poems that includes the whole of his lyric sequence, "Caelica", along with choruses from some of his verse dramas. Editor(s): Gunn, Thom. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226308463
ISBN
9780226308463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.17

Paperback. Human, hunger, happiness, hope, heart, and Halliday all start with h, as does ham. Accident? Maybe! But seldom have the flour of the humanistic and the egg yolk of honesty mixed more swellingly with the yeast of desire and the salt of self-doubt - not to mention the olive paste of ambition. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 104 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226313863
ISBN
9780226313863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.32

Paperback. Though known as the author of Notre Dame de Paris and Les Miserables, Victor Hugo was primarily a poet - one of the most important and prolific in French history, Illustrated with Hugo's own paintings and graphic work, this lucid, award-winning translation of a generous selection of Hugo's poetry pays homage to a towering figure of. Translator(s): Blackmore, E. H.; Blackmore, A. M. Num Pages: 664 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 228 x 35. Weight in Grams: 858.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
First Paperback Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226359816
ISBN
9780226359816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. A book about belief - not belief in the unknowable but belief in what seems bewilderingly plain. Pondering the bodies we inhabit, the words we speak, these poems aims to discover infinitude in the most familiar places. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 156 x 6. Weight in Grams: 134.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226492681
ISBN
9780226492681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.41

Paperback. Features poems that are haunted by the afterlife of Thom Gunn (1929-2004), one of the most beloved gay literary icons of the twentieth century. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 76 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 156 x 6. Weight in Grams: 127.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
76
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226503448
ISBN
9780226503448
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.54

Paperback. Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) is, by all accounts, a phenomenon in early modernity: a woman who wrote and published in many genres, whose fame shone brightly within and outside her native Venice, and whose voice is original and reflective of her time and culture. This book tells the story of the conquest of Byzantium in the Fourth Crusade. Editor(s): Stampino, Maria Galli. Translator(s): Stampino, Maria Galli. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 735.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226505480
ISBN
9780226505480
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.39

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
€ 34.69

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
€ 20.36

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
€ 20.36

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
€ 25.14

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