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  • Zlochov, My Home

    Poems by Moyshe-Leyb Halpern

    by Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, Richard J. Fein ...
    Translated by Richard J. Fein ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    Translations of selected poems by the Yiddish writer, covering the full scope of his oeuvre.Described by Ruth Wisse as one of "the most original and distinctive voices in Yiddish poetry," Moyshe-Leybe Halpern (1886–1932) was born in Zlochov, in present-day western Ukraine. When he was twelve, his father sent him to Vienna to study sign painting, and during his ten years there he studied German ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering XXIV

    Edited by Petter E. Bjørstad, Susanne C. Brenner, Lawrence Halpern, Hyea Hyun Kim, Ralf Kornhuber, Talal Rahman, Olof B. Widlund ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    These are the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering, which was held in Svalbard, Norway in February 2017.Domain decomposition methods are iterative methods for solving the often very large systems of equations that arise when engineering problems are discretized, frequently using finite elements or other modern techniques. These ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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    by Jenny Erpenbeck ...
    Translated by Susan Bernofsky ...
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  • There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die

    Selected Poems

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Russell ...
    Series series FSG Poetry
    By the acclaimed author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, a startling and darkly funny volume of selected poetry, the first to be translated into English.*It was a meaningless daylike what you callloveIt was a ThursdayIn parentheses. The brackets around itHave already fadedLife tastes of ashAnd is bearable.*From one of Denmark’s most celebrated twentieth-century writers, the author of the acclaimed Cop.. ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • A Bouquet

    Of Czech Folktales

    by Karel Jaromír Erben, Translated by Marcela Sulak ...
    Erben compiled and wrote A Bouquet based on his studies of Slavic folklore. First published in 1853, it is dotted with murder and mayhem : graves opening and the dead walking the earth, the animate becoming the inanimate and vice versa, ogres and monsters of lake and wood, human transformations reminiscent of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Written as ballads, Marcela Sulak's new translation perfectly ... Read more

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  • The World Doesn't End

    A Poetry Collection

    by Charles Simic ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry“One of the truly imaginative writers of our time.” —Los Angles Times Book ReviewYou never know what Charles Simic is up to until you reach the end of the line or the bottom of the paragraph. Waiting for you might be a kiss. Or a bludgeon. A smile at the absurdities of society, or a wistful, grim memory of World War II.He puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy ... Read more

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  • Dancing in Odessa

    Poems

    by Ilya Kaminsky ...
    Winner of the prestigious Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, selected by poet and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient Eleanor Wilner who says, "I'm so happy to have a manuscript that I believe in so powerfully, poetry with such a deep music. I love it." One might spend a lifetime reading books by emerging poets without finding the real thing, the writer who (to paraphrase Emily Dickinson) can take the top ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The Alphabet of Grace

    by Frederick Buechner ...

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  • How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

    Edited by Ilan Stavans, Josh Lambert ...
    Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how has Yiddish, a language without a country, influenced Hollywood? These and other questions are explored in this stunning and rich anthology of the interplay of Yiddish and American culture, edited by ... Read more

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  • Pro Eto - That's What

    by Vladimir Mayakovsky ...
    Translated by George Hyde, Larissa Gureyeva ...
    Series series Arc Translations
    Vladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post-revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man as to other poets. His fascination with sound and form, linguistic metamorphosis and variation made him a sort of 'poet's poet', the doyen, if not the envy, of his contemporaries, (Pasternak among them). His poetry is strangely akin to modern rock poetry in its ... Read more

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