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All of Tranströmer's poems, half a century of short, luminous pieces about nature, music, dreams and the border between waking and sleep.
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Arcadia Borealis
Selected poems by Karlfeldt, many sung by Fridolin, a learned peasant of his native Dalarna, about the farms, festivals and seasons of rural Sweden.
The Wild Iris
A book-length sequence of poems spoken by the flowers of a garden, by the gardener, and by the god they all address.
The Carrying
Poems about the body that refuses pregnancy, the small domestic world of horses and fig trees, and what the heart carries forward anyway.
Cuttlefish Bones
Montale's first book of poems, of the harsh, sunlit Ligurian coast he grew up on and the search for a way out of a closed world.
Stray Birds
Several hundred short poems and aphorisms, many only a line or two, on nature, love, God and the passing world.
Complete Poems
Quasimodo's poems from the hermetic lyrics of his Sicilian youth to the poems of war and Liberation that made his name.
My Sister, Life
The poems Pasternak wrote in the summer of 1917, between the two revolutions, of love, rain, gardens and trains.
A Longing for the Light
Selected poems from across Aleixandre's life, from the surrealist love poems of Destruction or Love to the late poems of memory and knowledge.
The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz 1957–1987
Thirty years of Paz's poems, from Sunstone onward, in Spanish and English.
Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996
Thirty years of Heaney's poems, from Death of a Naturalist to The Spirit Level, with his Nobel lecture.
Devotions
Mary Oliver's own selection from a lifetime of poems about the natural world, attention, wonder and the discipline of noticing.
Collected Poems in English
The poems Brodsky translated himself or wrote in English during his years of exile in America.