IMITATIONS PA

Not quite translations--yet something much more, much richer, than mere tributes to their original versions--the poems in Imitations reflect Lowell's conceptual, historical, literary, and aesthetic engagements with a diverse range of voices from the Western canon. Moving chronologically from Homer to Pasternak--and including such master poets en route as Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Rilke, and Montale--the fascinating and hugely informed pieces in this book are themselves meant to be read as "a whole," according to Lowell's telling Introduction, "a single volume, a small anthology of European poetry."

• The Heights of Macchu Picchu
• Memoirs of a Polar Bear
• The World's Greatest Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
• The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
• The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry
• Why Translation Matters (Why X Matters Series)
• Leaping Poetry: An Idea with Poems and Translations (Pitt Poetry Series)
• Nox
• Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada
• Ventrakl