Albanian contemporary poetry by Elton Ilirjani. A young Albanian poet, winner of national literary prizes in Albania. ...

Pant. Quatre petites lettres. Timides. Discretes. Recroquevillees. Un A et un N pelotonnes dans les bras d'un P et d'un T. Coquille vide/ videe/ sous vide ? Surtout aVide. Coquille creuse qui a faim et qu'une fin devore. Sa faim/ fin, c'est l'ecriture. Carnassiere, mortelle, cette faim/ fin est une suite. Tel est le sens des deux premiers pan(t)s de ce recueil. La fin comme suite, comme fuite : A" la fuite/ ou l'enfer/ la fin/ ou l'envers A", ...

A four-volume collection of spiritual poetry by Frithjof Schuon, who wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express the experience of the sacred through the medium of poetry.
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This book is about a major figure of the 20th century. Included is an English translation of a play originally written in German.
While not well known outside of Germany before World War II, Baeck became famous after the war because of his faith, service to others and endurance while a prisoner in the "model" concentration camp Theresienstadt. Rabbi Leo Baeck, the compassionate survivor of Nazi atrocities will not remain unknown for readers ...

Joan Margarit is one of Spain's major modern writers. Born in 1938, he worked as an architect and first published his work in Spanish, but for the past three decades has become known for his mastery of the Catalan language. The melancholy and candour of his poetry show his affinity with Thomas Hardy, whose work he has translated. In poems evoking the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, the harshness of life in Barcelona under Franco, and grief ...

Poetry written by an Italian American for the enjoyment of all. The poems' theme is Italian American in nature. Also written by George Guida: "The Peasant and the Pen: Men, Enterprise and the Recovery of Culture in Italian American Narrative."
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This is a reissue of Italian poet Paolo Ruffilli's long poem La gioia e il lutto, in a dual-language edition, Italian and English, with a translation by Irish poet and Augustinian priest Pdraig J. Daly. The poem uses a form traditional in both Irish and Italian poetry, where it goes back to Jacapone da Todi and beyond, in which various people comment on the agony and death of Christ, in order to shed light on the suffering and dying of a young ...

-- "Spring's Awakening" challenged too many taboos to be performable when first written. Otherwise a production in 1891 would have been a shot heard round the world, as the early productions of A Dolls House had been. Ibsen had dramatized the subjection of women. Just as radically (or more so), Wedekind dramatized the subjection of children.
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Pesqus weaves philosophical reflection in and out of an encounter with the body of the mountain he views from his window, the body of language, and the human body that bridges the two.
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1910. Rostand was a French dramatist whose plays represent the final flowering of the 19th-century romantic tradition. His greatest work, Cyrano de Bergerac was a dazzling popular success and remains a worldwide favorite to this day. One of Rostand's earlier works, The Romancers has been adapted as the highly successful musical comedy The Fantasticks, the longest running musical in theater history. His last play, Chantecler, is a fantasy that ...