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Queer Roman Verse

Centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, as new global empires sought to enshrine the art and literature of their ancient predecessor, some inconvenient truths were lost in translation. Queer love an…

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Li Qingzhao,
The Magpie at Night

Li Qingzhao is justly celebrated for her place in Chinese literary history. She was a poet with a wry, unsentimental style and a rich sense of melody. Her ci - lyrics that were originally set to music - a…

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Dante Alighieri,
The Divine Comedy

When Michael Palma's translation of the Inferno appeared in 2002, it defied the conventional wisdom of literary commentators who had long argued that Dante's intricate terza rima form simply could not be …

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Hanshan,
Cold Mountain Zen

The Tang Dynasty poet Hanshan ("cold mountain") and his friend Shide ("foundling") are among the most iconic figures in the history of Zen Buddhism. Variously described as Buddhists, m…

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How to Love in Sanskrit

For centuries, Sanskrit-often called the sacred language of the gods in India-has seemed forbidding to English-language readers. But Sanskrit writers were preoccupied with the same subjects that animate l…

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Dante Alighieri,
Paradiso

The epic conclusion of Mary Jo Bang's celebrated translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy

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Henry Alford
Chapters on the Poets of Ancient Greece

Reprint of the original, first published in 1841. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Algarabía

A Puerto Rican trans epic that blends poetic play and speculative fiction, by a Lambda Literary Award winnerUna epopeya puertorriqueña trans que mezcla poesía y narrativa especulativa, por un ganador del …

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Leah O'Hearn
Akrasia and the Catullan Lover

Exploring how the Roman poet Catullus portrays erotic desire as a problem of self-control, Leah O'Hearn argues that Catullus presents himself as a lover plagued by akrasia (the failure to act on better ju…

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Emily Hauser
How Women Became Poets

How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one---aoidos , or "singer-man." The most fam…

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Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry

Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry is a personal guide to global poetry in translation by 25th US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze. Focusing on an accessible selection of key works, Sze takes readers through…

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Dante Alighieri,
The Inferno

"Halfway tree. The journey of our life found me / there at midnight in a ramshackle state." So begins Lorna Goodison 's astonishing new translation of The Inferno by Dante, a poet she once descr…

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Pacuvius,
Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume VII

Dilapidated dramas. The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with Marcus Pacuvius (ca. 220-130), deemed by Cicero to be Rome's greatest tragic poet, together with the fragm…

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Euripides,
Grief Lessons

Now in paperback.Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by i…

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Maria Kanellou
Erotic Greek Epigram

Despite its small size, epigram attracted some of the best poetic talents of antiquity, exerting a strong influence on Latin literature and continuing to inspire poetic creativity until our days.

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Al-An&,
The Book of Rain

Named a Best Book of 2025 by Books Without BordersA vivid translation of Abū Zayd alAnṣārī's early Arabic weather lexicon, Book of Rain reveals a richly detailed linguistic landscape devoted to the many f…

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The Ten Thousand Leaves

"The first and greatest anthology of classical Japanese poetry, the Man'yoshu is considered, along with Tale of Genji, to be one of the two most important works in classical Japanese literature"…

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Samuel Birch
History of Ancient Pottery

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Samuel Birch
History of Ancient Pottery

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Study of Sorrow

In Study of Sorrow, Shangyang Fang breathes contemporary life into the poems of twenty-nine Song Dynasty Ci poets.For many years, Song Dynasty Ci poetry has seemed eclipsed by the incandescence of Tang Po…

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