10 Top poetry books like Barbarları Beklerken by Constantinos P. Cavafy

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Barbarları Beklerken

By: Constantinos P. Cavafy

4.19

Format: 151 pages, None

Wiersz jest wyzwaniem rzuconym czasowi, smierci, zapomnieniu, poeta zas to ktos obdarzony talentem …

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Cover of Sol absolu et autres textes by Lorand Gaspar

1. Sol absolu et autres textes

By: Lorand Gaspar

3.35

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Avec un essai d'autobiographie inedit. Edition revue par l'auteur pour Sol absolu et Le Quatrieme E… read more

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2. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Clayton Eshleman , Aimé Césaire , Annette Smith , Annette Smith

4.10

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle."

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

"Écoutez le monde blanc horriblement las de son effort immense ses articulations rebelles craquer sous les étoiles dures ses raideurs d'acier bleu transperçant la chair mystique écoute ses victoires p…"

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

"And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of desp…"

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

". . . car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre d…"

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

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3. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

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4. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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5. The New York Trilogy

By: Paul Auster , Art Spiegelman

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of … read more

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6. El color del tiempo

By: Clarisse Nicoidski

4.17

Format: None pages,

El color del tiempo reune por primera vez la obra poetica completa de Clarisse Nicoidski, una de la… read more

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  • poetry
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7. 69

By: Ryū Murakami

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ryu Murakami, along with Haruki Murakami (no relation), is one of the best-selling writers in Japan… read more

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8. In the Café of Lost Youth

By: Patrick Modiano , Euan Cameron

3.53

Format: 153 pages, Hardcover

The elegant, haunting story of the forgotten people and places of Paris from the reigning Nobel Lau… read more

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  • classics
"Quand on aime vraiment quelqu'un, il faut accepter sa part de mystère... et c'est pour ça qu'on l'aime..."

-Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth

"Il existait à Paris des zones intermédiaires, des no man's land où l'on était à la lisière de tout, en transit, ou même en suspens."

-Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth

"Người ta không già đi. Với những năm tháng trôi qua, nhiều người và nhiều thứ rốt cuộc trở nên hài hước và nực cười đến mức bạn ném vào họ và vào chúng một cái nhìn trẻ con."

-Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth

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9. The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

By: Charles Bukowski , Robert Crumb

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Buk… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
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10. The Aleph and Other Stories

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more

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  • classics

11. Distant Star

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Staris Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pil… read more

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12. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

13. Selected Poems

By: Linda Gray Sexton , Anne Sexton

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

This selection, which is drawn from Anne Sexton's ten published volumes of poems as well as from re… read more

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14. Amulet

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is … read more

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15. Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mark Doty , A. Poulin Jr.

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Rilke is one of the most widely read poets of the 20th century. In his poetry, Rilke addresses the … read more

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16. Tent Posts

By: Henri Michaux , None

3.95

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

As if they were dictated at the "front line," so to speak, Tent Postsis a book of theoretical urgen… read more

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17. The Blind Owl

By: Sadegh Hedayat , D.P. Costello

3.97

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale o… read more

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  • classics
"افكار پوچ! از هر حقيقتی بيشتر مرا شكنجه ميكند"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهایی است که روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد ومیتراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهايی هست که مثل خوره روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد و می تراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"از دور ریختن عقایدی که به من تلقین شده بود، آرامش مخصوصی در خودم حس می‌کردم."

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

18. Le nu perdu et autres poèmes, 1964-1975

By: René Char

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

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19. The Birth of Tragedy

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more

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  • classics
"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

20. The Axion Esti (The Pitt Poetry Series)

By: None

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

The Axion Esti [is] the work on which Elytis's reputation rests, and which almost certainly won him… read more

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21. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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22. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

By: Lea Ypi

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more

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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

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23. Winter Recipes from the Collective

By: Louise Glück

3.99

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"Obviously my mind is not what it was, she said. Most of my facts have disappeared, but certain underlying principles have been in consequence exposed with surprising clarity."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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24. Grey Bees

By: Andrey Kurkov

4.07

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

49-year-old safety inspector-turned-beekeeper Sergey Sergeich, wants little more than to help his b… read more

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25. Isus si Iuda

By: Amos Oz

3.63

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Acest eseu, prima opera postuma a lui Amos Oz, avand ca punct de pornire o prelegere sustinuta in 2… read more

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26. Je suis un volcan criblé de météores: Poésies 1947-1997

By: Etel Adnan

4.67

Format: 368 pages, Pocket Book

None read more

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27. Three Secret Poems

By: George Seferis

4.59

Format: 90 pages, Hardcover

Édition bilingue. Nouvelle édition en 1987 read more

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  • poetry
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28. Barbarları Beklerken

By: Constantinos P. Cavafy

4.19

Format: 151 pages, None

Wiersz jest wyzwaniem rzuconym czasowi, smierci, zapomnieniu, poeta zas to ktos obdarzony talentem … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
Cover of Nuit obscure - Cantique spirituel by Juan de la Croix

29. Nuit obscure - Cantique spirituel

By: Juan de la Croix

3.27

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On trouvera dans ce recueil les plus beaux poèmes de Jean de la Croix : les deux versions du Cantiq… read more

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  • poetry
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30. Ecuador: Journal de voyage

By: Henri Michaux

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"Arrivée à la ferme de Guadalupe Lundi (21 ? février). Au pied du volcan Tunguragua. J'arrivai pour… read more

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10 Best classics books like Barbarları Beklerken by Constantinos P. Cavafy

Transform Your Habits

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Clayton Eshleman , Aimé Césaire , Annette Smith , Annette Smith

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Transform Your Habits

In the Café of Lost Youth

Patrick Modiano , Euan Cameron

3.53

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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

Lea Ypi

4.28

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Solvej Balle

3.71

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Iida Turpeinen

4.38

Transform Your Habits

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Sara Al Husaini

4.03

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