{"title":"Readers and Literature (Pay by Card in Arizona)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese books are sold here but Arizona's program will not pay for them. You can still buy them by card in the same order as your program-billed books.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"waiting-for-godot-en-attendant-godot-paperback","title":"Waiting for Godot\/En Attendant Godot - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSamuel Beckett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSamuel Beckett\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eS. E. 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Daniel Polikoff gives us Rilke in word and spirit in these splendid Sonnets.\"--LISEL MUELLER, National Book Award for Poetry (1981) for The Need to Hold Still; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1997) for Alive Together: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Daniel Polikoff is the first to achieve the unimaginable: an English translation which brings the form and content of these Sonnets together into an organic confluence. These new translations lift our understanding of Rilke's spiritual and aesthetic inspiration up to a whole different level, one accessible for the first time to the English reader. As a professor of German literature who has taught these sonnets for over thirty years, I can only thank Daniel Polikoff for this phenomenal accomplishment. 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He studied English literature at Yonsei University (B.A., 1967), the University of California at Davis (M.A., 1973) and Texas Tech University (Ph.D., 1980), and taught at Yonsei University (1981-2008). He also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Toronto (1987), the University of Washington (1994-1995), and Troy University (2002-2003). He is now Professor Emeritus at Yonsei University. His publication includes The Wind and the Waves: Four Modern Korean Poets (1989), The Moonlit Pond: Korean Classical Poems in Chinese (1998), The Brush and the Sword: Kasa, Korean Classical Poems in Prose (2009), Blue Stallion: Poems of Yu Chi-whan (2011) and Beowulf and Four Related Old English Poems: A Verse Translation with Explanatory Notes (2010). 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Surreal, fable-like prose poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarosa di Giorgio was born in Salto, Uruguay, in 1932. Descended from Italian immigrants of Tuscan origin, she and her sister Nidia were raised as Catholics in the countryside. She published her first book, \u003ci\u003ePoemas\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1953. In the 1950s and 60s she worked in the theater and participated as an actress in almost thirty productions. Later, drawing on her background in theater, she gave dramatic recitals of her poems. In 1978, after the death of her father, the family relocated to Montevideo, where she lived until she died of cancer in 2004. She never married or had children. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike Walt Whitman, di Giorgio expanded the same work throughout her career: \u003ci\u003eLos Papeles Salvajes\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Wild Papers\u003c\/i\u003e, 2008), her collected poetry, which unites fourteen books. Since her poems inhabit the same imaginative world, they can be read as one long meditation, which di Giorgio described as a forest in which she planted more trees. In 2008, Adriana Hidalgo, an editorial house in Buenos Aires, published the collection in one single volume. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003edi Giorgio also composed three books of erotic tales--\u003ci\u003eMisales\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), \u003ci\u003eCamino de las pedrerías\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), \u003ci\u003eRosa mística\u003c\/i\u003e (2003)--and a novel, \u003ci\u003eReina Amelia\u003c\/i\u003e (1999). Her final book, \u003ci\u003eLa flor de lis\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), which combines prose poems with longer narratives, completed shortly before her death, synthesizes her life's work. 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