The Poem Itself

Edited and with an Introduction by Stanley Burnshaw
Associate Editors: Dudley Fitts, Henri Peyre, John Frederick Nims

Available again for a new generation, this classic work contains over 150 of the greatest modern French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian poems presented in the original languages and brilliantly illuminated by English commentaries.

1995, 384 pages
$29.95 paper (s), 1-55728-328-1

Sappho to Valéry
Poems in Translation

Revised and Enlarged Edition
John Frederick Nims

"Nims is graced with a meticulous ear for poetic sound effects as they work to give a poem the uncanniness of a true voice. He knows, therefore, how much in a poem refuses to cross the language border. The wonder remains how much he is yet able to smuggle across."

—John Ciardi

1990, 435 pages
$27.50, 1-55728-141-6