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  • Apollo in the Grass

    Selected Poems

    by Aleksandr Kushner ...
    Translated by Carol Ueland, Robert Carnevale ...
    The more softly the word is pronouncedThe more ardent, the more miraculous.The less it dreams of becoming a songThat much nearer it draws to music.-from "Apollo in the Grass"For the Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky, the poems of Aleksandr Kushner were essential: "Kushner is one of the best Russian lyric poets of the twentieth century, and his name is destined to rank with those close to the heart of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Learning for Careers

    The Pathways to Prosperity Network

    by Nancy Hoffman, Robert B. Schwartz ...
    Series series Work and Learning Series
    Learning for Careers provides a comprehensive account of the Pathways to Prosperity Network, a national initiative focused on helping more young people successfully complete high school, attain a first postsecondary credential with value in the labor market, and get started on a career without foreclosing the opportunity for further education. It takes as its starting point the influential 2011 ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Eugene Onegin

    A Novel in Verse

    by Alexander Pushkin ...
    Translated by Stanley Mitchell ...
    Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it contains a large cast of characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • View With A Grain Of Sand

    Selected Poems

    by Wislawa Szymborska ...
    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATUREA remarkable, graceful collection from one of Europe’s most prominent and celebrated poets.In these 100 poems, Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischievous. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, she documents life's improbability as well ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • In Memory of Memory

    by Maria Stepanova ...
    Translated by Sasha Dugdale ...
    An exploration of life at the margins of history from one of Russia’s most exciting contemporary writersShortlisted for the 2021 International Booker PrizeWinner of the MLA Lois Roth Translation AwardWith the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Collected Poems

    1956–1998

    by Zbigniew Herbert ...
    "Herbert's work in twentieth-century letters . . . rivals that of W. H. Auden or Elizabeth Bishop in its originality, imaginative breadth and humane vigilance." — The Washington PostA New York Times Notable Book of the YearThis outstanding new translation brings a uniformity of voice to Zbigniew Herbert's entire poetic output, from his first book of poems, String of Light, in 1956, to his final ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

    Edited by Robert Chandler, Robert Chandler, Irina Mashinski, Irina Mashinski, Boris Dralyuk, Boris Dralyuk ...
    An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski.In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporaries ushering in the 'Golden Age' of Russian literature. Prose briefly gained the high ground in the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Selected Poems, 1968–1996

    by Joseph Brodsky ...
    A career-spanning collection of poetry from the Russian American author and winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize for Literature.Joseph Brodsky spent his life advocating for the place of the poet in society. As Derek Walcott said of him, "Joseph was somebody who lived poetry . . . He saw being a poet as being a sacred calling." The poems in this volume span Brodsky's career, which was marked by his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How to Start Writing (and When to Stop)

    Advice for Writers

    by Wislawa Szymborska ...
    Translated by Clare Cavanagh ...
    At once kind and hilarious, this compilation of the Nobel Prize-winning poet’s advice to writers is illustrated with her own marvelous collagesIn this witty “how-to” guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: “I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories,” she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she gave ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • City of Lions

    Portrait of a City in Two Acts: Lviv, Then and Now

    by Jozef Wittlin, Philippe Sands ...
    Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    The Ukrainian city Lviv's many names (Lviv, Lvov, Lwow, Lemberg, Leopolis) bear witness to its conflicted past - it has, at one time or another, belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland, Russia and Germany, and has brought forth numerous famous artists and intellectuals. My Lwow, Jozef Wittlin's short 1946 treatise on the city he left in 1922, is a wistful and lyrical study of an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Wild Peculiar Joy

    The Selected Poems

    by Irving Layton ...
    A Wild Peculiar Joy is Irving Layton’s poetic testament. Hailed as the great lyric poet, Irving Layton has come to be known as one of Canada’s most powerful, groundbreaking voices, an important and influential writer whose distinguished career spanned almost forty-five years. By turns passionate and grave, joyous and apocalyptic, his beautifully crafted poems are illuminated by a strong social and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Believe in People

    The Essential Karel Capek

    by Karel Capek ...
    Translated by Šárka Tobrmanová-Kühnová ...
    Playful and provocative, irreverent and inspiring, Capek is perhaps the best-loved Czech writer of all time. Novelist and playwright, famed for inventing the word 'robot' in his play RUR, Capek was a vital part of the burgeoning artistic scene of Czechoslovakia of the 1920s and 30s. But it is in his journalism - his brief, sparky and delightful columns - that Capek can be found at his most ... Read more

    $15.59 USD