ANVIL PRESS POETRY

(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
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(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
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THE TRUTH OF POETRY
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(P/B) DITHYRAMBS OF DIONYSUS
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PALLADAS: POEMS
Tony Harrison’s selection of poems by the fourth-century Alexandrian epigrammatist compellingly recreates the bitter wit which he describes as ‘the authentic snarl of a man trapped physically in poverty and persecution, and metaphysically in a deep sense of the futile’. As he writes in his preface, ‘Palladas... is generally regarded as the last poet of Paganism, and it is in this role that I have sought to present a consistent dramatic personality... His are the last hopeless blasts of the old Hellenistic world, giving way reluctantly, but...
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SAPPHO THROUGH ENGLISH POETRY (085646273X)
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