Poetry genre books (319)
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Ukraine62.
De lippen van de aarde by Pablo Neruda NL
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
Neruda ziet poëzie niet als een dampende najade. Hij zet haar als wasvrouw aan het werk, laat haar brood verkopen in de bakkerijen, spinnen met de eenvoudige weefsters en ijzer beslaan in de metaalwerkplaats. Hij brengt haar naar de ondergrondse mijnen en moet lachen als ze tevoorschijn komt met haar voorhoofd vol vlekken steenkool. Zijn poëzie spreekt de taal van mensen, de taal van iedereen. In uiterst korte verzen weet Neruda vervoering en rust met elkaar te combineren. Maar zelfs achter zijn schijnbaar eenvoudige poëzie schuilen diepere betekenissen als politiek, oorlog, geheime liefde en ... continue
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De Profundis and Other Prison Writings by Oscar Wilde EN
IrelandDescription:
De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Tóibín. At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most recent stage success, An Ideal Husband. But by May of the same year, Wilde was in Reading prison sentenced to hard labour. 'De Profundis' is an epistolic account of Oscar Wilde's spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his new, shocking conviction that 'the supreme vice is shallowness'. This edition also includes further letters to his wife, hi... continue
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Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky EN
Description:
Finalist for the National Book Award • Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award • Winner of the National Jewish Book Award • Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award • Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize • Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence? Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Pety... continue
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Dearly : New Poems by Margaret Atwood EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
In Dearly, Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived. While many are familiar with Margaret Atwood's fiction--including her groundbreaking and bestselling novels The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, Oryx and Crake, among others--she has, from the beginn... continue
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Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles EN
ScotlandDescription:
Deep Wheel Orcadia is, effortlessly, a first: a science-fiction verse novel written in the Orcadian dialect, it's also the first full-length book in the Orkney language in over 50 years Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind. Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science fiction verse novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventur... continue
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Der Prophet. Der Narr. Der Wanderer by Khalīl Ǧibrān DE
LebanonDescription:
Die Parabeln und Gleichnisse des libanesischen Dichterphilosophen Khalil Gibran erzählen in betörend schlichter Sprache von der menschlichen Suche nach Wahrheit und Aufrichtigkeit, berichten von Liebe und Freundschaft und geben einsichtsvolle Antworten auf die existentiellen Fragen des Lebens. Dieser Band versammelt Gibrans berühmteste Werke Der Prophet, Der Narr und Der Wanderer in neuer Übersetzung.
Indonesia
Romania70.
Die K-Gedichte by Robert Gernhardt DE
EstoniaDescription:
2 Gedichtzyklen, in denen R. Gernhardt zuerst seine Krebserkrankung begleitet und verarbeitet (K wie Krankheit, K wie Krebs), dann den Irak-Krieg auf seine Art kommentiert. / Roland Schwarz