Virginia WoolfSet on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a...

RumiEdited and Translated by Reynold A NicholsonMawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi's great poem, the Mathnawi is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism. The Mathnawi was...

VirgilThe Aeneid: A New Prose TranslationVirgil took as his hero Aeneas, legendary survivor of the fall of Troy and father of the Roman race, and in telling a story of...

Edward Snow For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, "Rilke's best contemporary translator" (Brian Phillips, The New Republic ), to bring into English...

Rumi Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) is considered by most to be the greatest of the Sufi mystical poets and one of the most highly regarded saints from any tradition. January 1,...

John KeatsA collection of poems by John Keats, which includes Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Hyperion.English and Spanish Edition

Chosen by Kit WrightThis enjoyable anthology has been especially compiled by the poet Kit Wright. There are exciting poems about highwaymen, spine chilling poems of spectres and ghouls, delightful uplifting...

Author: Sharon Creech "I guess it doeslook like a poemwhen you see ittyped uplike that."Jack hates poetry. Only girls write it and every time he tries to, his brain feels...

Saigyo Translated by Burton Wwatson Poems of a Mountain Home contains translations of two hundred of Saigyo's poems. His poems are almost all written in the thirty-one syllable tanka form,...

An Anthology of Weather Poems chose by Fiona WatersWith drawings and etching by VeroniPublisher ‏ : ‎ Fontana Lions (January 1, 1982)

Chava NissimovTruly an artistic experience, the short, concise poems in this collection are composed of the memory fragments of a girl who grew up in the shadow of war and...

Elizabeth Acevedo Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land,...