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Luca ci racconta i vuoti e gli abissi, le cadute, ma sa raccontare anche, con profonda sensibilità, le difficoltà che ogni essere umano ha nel rapportarsi con l’esistenza e le persone. È proprio il pericolo di non sapersi ascoltati o compresi a dare vita ad una raccolta breve ma intensa in cui...

... tu come Enea in lacrime diresse la prora verso il mare aperto sogni l'immortalità della vita per approdare sulle sponde dell'infinito Sintesi dell'evoluzione dell'uomo e dell'ansia vitale del genere umano di afferrare l'infinito e dominarlo. Quasi l'avventura della conoscenza per superare la...

Ci sono momenti e persone che lasciano tracce indelebili nell'animo e rimangono vivi nel ricordo, con un impeto pari e a volte maggiore di quello vissuto. L'atmosfera presente in questa silloge ha l'intento di dare l'intensità alla parola e ai sentimenti d'amore.

Yannis Ritsos is a poet whose writing life is entwined with the contemporary history of his homeland. Nowhere is this more apparent than in this volume, which presents a series of three diaries in poetry that Ritsos wrote between 1948 and 1950, during and just after the Greek Civil War, while a political...

Upon its original publication in 1857 Charles Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du Mal” or “The Flowers of Evil” was embroiled in controversy. Within a month of its publication the French authorities brought an action against the author and the book’s publisher claiming that the work was an insult...

A reissue of Rimbaud’s highly influential work, with a new preface by Patti Smith and the original 1945 New Directions cover design by Alvin lustig. New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bi- lingual edition of Rimbaud’s A Season In Hell & The Drunken...

Poet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) was one of the French belle époque's most compelling literary figures. During his lifetime, Roussel's work was vociferously championed by the surrealists, but never achieved the widespread acclaim for which he yearned....

The great Pierre Reverdy, comrade to Picasso and Braque, peer and contemporary of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, is among the most mysteriously satisfying of twentieth-century poets, his poems an uncanny mixture of the simple and the sublime. Reverdy’s poetry has exerted a special...

Poems Under Saturn is the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest of nineteenth-century writers. This new translation, by respected contemporary poet...

A collection of fifteen poets representative of their times and their stature in French poetry. Translated by Leon Schwartz, a professor of French at California State University. Schwartz remained as faithful as he could to particular schemes of rime and meter, as well as the sound play, imagery,...

Hédi Kaddour’s poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic—of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, or human cruelty. With Treason, the award-winning poet and translator Marilyn Hacker presents an English-speaking audience with the first selected...

A collection of French poems translated into English.Un collection de poèmes français traduits en anglais.

Film-maker, novelist, artist, playwright, entrepreneur, Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) regarded himself above all as a poet. No matter how diverse or prolific his creativity, he saw poetry as central to his vision of all the arts. And it was as a poet that he began his career, publishing Le Cap de Bonne-Espérance...

Dream Teller includes a selection of poems related to the sea, Forbus' ever-present muse, but also poems charged with love and sensuality, introspection, essence and non-essence... Together they compose a loyal song that will guide the reader through the thick fog of dreams, where bizarre and at times...