ANVIL PRESS POETRY

(P/B) A GUIDE TO THE CANTOS OF EZRA POUND
In this essential guide to one of the most difficult yet rewarding poems of the twentieth century, William Cookson (who began corresponding with Pound as a schoolboy in 1957) draws on a deep and intimate knowledge of Pound’s life and work. This edition incorporates much new information and has been substantially revised and expanded. William Cookson gives lucid critical overviews to the various sections of the poem, clarifying its purpose and structure and explaining the views on literature, history and economics that inform Pound’s poetry...
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(P/B) POEMS
"He is an exquisite poet, a deliverer of nations ... a father of light", said Ezra Pound in 1918 of Jules Laforgue. Among the most innovative of poets in the French language, Laforgue was an important influence on the young T.S. Eliot. Part symbolist and part impressionist, his associative method, speech-rhythms and boldly heterogenous diction make him not only one of the most individual of French poets but also among the most entertaining. Notable also for his early protests for the liberation of women, Laforgue died in Paris in 1887 aged...
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(P/B) A SEASON IN GRANADA
A Season in Granada brings together poems, essays and excerpts from letters by the great twentieth-century poet Federico Garcia Lorca, including two sequences of poems and an essay previously unpublished in English. The writings form a dazzling, elegiac celebration of the city of Granada, where Lorca grew up, where he studied, and to which he returned frequently in his life and in his imagination. And where he would die. In Christopher Maurer's words, the twenty poems in the two Suites, 'Poem of the Fair' and 'Summer Hours', draw on 'the s...
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(P/B) THE SELECTED POEMS OF PO CHU-I
Po Chu-i lived from AD 772-846, rising from humble beginnings to high government office. Although some of his most famous poems are those of social and moral protest, many of his finest are private and meditative; he was a recluse at heart and spent many years in relative solitude. He is regarded by many Chinese as their greatest poet, but his poems have been known in the West only through scattered versions by Arthur Waley and others. David Hinton brings scholarship and a poet's instinct to the task of translation, as well as great experi...
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(P/B) WOMEN/MEN
Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) wrote three secret collections of verse, of which Femmes and Hombres remained almost unobtainable even in France until the 1970s. These strangely unrespectable poems celebrate the pleasures of sex, with women and men respectively, in loving detail - reversing the old view of Verlaine as a limp impressionist. Alistair Elliot's metrical translations brilliantly echo the vigour, good humour and skill of the originals, which accompany them in this bilingual edition. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) POEMS AND FRAGMENTS
Michael Hamburger was engaged in translating the poetry of Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) for over half a century. This lifelong preoccupation culminates in this fourth bilingual edition, incorporating revisions, new translations and other supplementary material. It is the classic English edition of Hoelderlin’s poetry for our age. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) CHARMS
Paul Valery's most celebrated collection Charmes was first published in 1922. It contains several of his most famous poems, including 'Ebauche d'un serpent' and 'Le cimetiere marin' - in Yvor Winters' view 'the two greatest short poems ever written.' The collection as a whole has achieved classic status as the finest work by the finest modern French poet. Here it is helpfully introduced and discussed by Peter Dale who has also appended some early poems, and one much later piece, of related interest. Peter Dale has been working on his tran...
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(P/B) THE SELECTED POEMS OF LI PO
Li Po (AD 701-762) and Tu Fu are traditionally celebrated as the two greatest poets in the Chinese canon. David Hinton’s translation of Li Po’s poetry is no less an achievement than his critically acclaimed The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, also published by Anvil. Li Po’s work is suffused with Taoism and Zen Buddhism, and the pure lyricism of his poems has awed readers in China and Japan for over a thousand years. Called ‘the Banished Immortal’, Li Po was seen as an exiled spirit moving through this world with an unearthly ease and freedom fro...
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(P/B) APOLLINAIRE: SELECTED POEMS
Apollinaire's poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First World War. The most dynamic modernist French poet and the champion of the Cubist painters, he is remembered as much for his more traditional lyric poems as for the typographical experiments of his calligrammes. Subtle and complex, yet often direct, his poetry is still fresh and memorable. (From the publisher) MAY In May lovely May on a boat on the Rhine There were ladies looking from high on the mountain You are so very pretty but the boat ...
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(P/B) CONTINUUM
Continuum follows the path taken in Take My Word for It, with poems written in her original English. As in her translated Romanian poems, Nina Cassian is a born lyric story-teller. Many of her poems take the form of short fables or even parables, fashioned with a unique blend of fantasy, seriousness and humour. The section titles - Remember, Creatures from Inner Space, Travelling, Homages, Love's Boomerang, Finale - give an idea of the book's range and her capacity for striking turns of phrase, but do not suggest the expressive power which...
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(P/B) SELLING MANHATTAN
The poems in Carol Ann Duffy's highly praised second collection range from the dramatic monologues for which she is noted to love poems, which she writes, Robert Nye remarked, 'as if she were the first to do so'. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) STANDING FEMALE NUDE
This outstanding first collection introduced Carol Ann Duffy’s impressive gifts and the broad range of her interests and style. The poems are fresh, skilful, passionate....
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(P/B) TAKE MY WORD FOR IT
Take My Word for It is Nina Cassian's first collection of poems in English. Since being forced in 1985 to abandon her native Romania, where she had published more than 50 books, she has settled in New York. The American poet and critic Stanley Kunitz acclaims her as 'a world-class poet, high-spirited, fierce, intelligent, uncompromising, and wonderfully nervy.' These qualities are evident in her new poems, whose tone is playful and optimistic, sharp, witty, funny and wise. COUPLES One always loves more than the other, they say. The one wh...
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THE PERFECT ORDER
EINSTEIN Where are you going in that cloud of hair? Your pure mind reached and held the perfect note to counterpoint your animal desire, leaving those terri?ed of dark in doubt. You saw as one, in?nity and nought and chaos ('shady garden of the void') blossomed forth resplendent in your thought with wilderness and city uni?ed. Beyond thisness and elseness, here and there, radiant and magni?cent you rowed into the universe's heart of dark where no rain ever falls, or sleet or snow, and time itself lies open everywhere, a wide and waveless o...
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(P/B) THE FOURTH DIMENSION
In Greece, more than most places, past and present, living and dead, have always coexisted: against the backdrop of that spare, harsh, beautiful limestone landscape, ideas and heroes have battled through the centuries. Homer and Makriyannis tell the same story. Those who fought for freedom against a Persian invasion share voices and profiles with the anti-Nazi guerrillas of World War II - not to mention their common habit of internecine stasis, civil war. Feuds and vendettas, the endless remembrance of ancient wrongs, run unbroken from the...
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THE POEMS IN PROSE

(P/B) FROM RUSSIAN WITH LOVE
For many years Daniel Weissbort was associated with the late Russian emigre poet Joseph Brodsky. From Russian with Love offers an account of their relations, in which the author is both translator and confidant to the great poet. In addition to being a fascinating biographical (and autobigraphical) study, Weissbort's detailed discussions of the problems of translating Brodsky's poems constitute a telling contribution to translation studies, and an essay on the nature of language itself. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) SEFERIS: COMPLETE POEMS
MYTHISTOREMA GYMNOPAIDIA BOOKS OF EXERCISES POEMS GIVEN MR STRATIS THALASSINOS MR STRATIS THALASSINOS DESCRIBES A MAN NOTES FOR A WEEK SKETCHES FOR A SUMMER LOGBOOK I LOGBOOK II "THRUSH" LOGBOOK III THREE SECRET POEMS FROM BOOK OF EXERCISES II APPENDIX: RHYMED POEMS TURNING POINT SHELLS, CLOUDS EROTIKOS LOGOS THE CISTERN FROM BOOK OF EXERCISES PANTOUM OTHER RHYMED POEMS FROM LOGBOOK II FROM LOGBOOK III BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE NOTES BIOGRAPHICAL DATA INDEX OF TITLES...
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THE TRUTH OF POETRY

THE DIVINE COMEDY