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"Iron Moon is a monumental achievement. It redraws the boundaries of working-class poetry for the new millennium by incorporating at its center issues like migration, globalization, and rank-and-file resistance. We hear in these poems what Zheng...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780834805705Author John StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Weatherhill IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm)...

The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty-from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth's loose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789629966591Author David HawkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Cultivating the Empty Field is a modern translation of the core of Chinese Ch'an master Hongzhi's Extensive Record.First to articulate the meditation method known to contemporary Zen practitioners as shikantaza ("just sitting") Chinese Zen master Hongzhi...

Priceless Wisdom from a Modern Tao Te Ching Odyssey"...this book will completely absorb your attention from the beginning..." -Emanuele Pettener, PhD, assistant professor of Italian and writer in residence at Florida Atlantic University#1 New Release in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590566Author Tao ChienFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806892Author Matsuo BashoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957756066Author Muhammad IqbalFormat HardbackPage Count 454Imprint Ghazal Sara Dot OrgPublisher Ghazal Sara Dot OrgWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809428Author Saigyo SaigyoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

The first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in EnglishIn 1923, Shuzo Takiguchi's first year at Tokyo's Keio University was cut short by the Great Kanto Earthquake, which nearly destroyed the Japanese capital. When he returned...

Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is now widely viewed as Japan's greatest poet of the 20th century. Little known in his lifetime, he died at 37 from tuberculosis, but has since become a much loved children's author whose magical tales have been translated into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861714896Author Francisca ChoFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

This commentary on the Chinese masterpiece, The Classic of Tea, offers a fascinating perspective on this ancient pastime and art.The Classic of Tea, the first known monograph on tea in the world, was written in the 8th century by Lu Yu who devoted his...

The threat of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's surprise invasion of Russia in June 1941, succeeding prompted Churchill to decide to send vital military supplies to Britain's new ally. The early sailings to Northern Russia via the Arctic Ocean between...

In this rich collection of Sanskrit verse, the late Daniel Ingalls provides English readers with a wide variety of poetry from the vast anthology of an eleventh-century Buddhist scholar.Although the style of poetry presented here originated in royal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170915Author Osip MandelstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

"The Songs of the South" is an anthology first compiled in the second century A.D. Its poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under seventeen titles and contain all that we know of Chinese poetry's ancient...

Arun Kolatkar (1931-2004) was one of India's greatest modern poets. He wrote prolifically, in both Marathi and English, publishing in magazines and anthologies from 1955, but did not bring out a book of poems until he was 44. "Jejuri" (1976) won him the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844018680Author M. PonnambalamFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781829660Author Nakahara ChuyaFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789360458751Author Vinod Kumar ShuklaFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint WestlandPublisher Westland Publications Limited

As direct descendants of the great courtier-poets Fujiwara no Shunzei (1114-1204) and his son Teika (1162-1244), the heirs of the noble Reizei house can claim an unbroken literary lineage that spans over eight hundred years. During all that time, their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594267Author Yosa BusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Copper Canyon PressPublisher Copper Canyon PressWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387669079Author Sir Rabindranath TagoreFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint General Press IndiaPublisher General Press IndiaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399973663Author Paul CharltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Softwood BooksPublisher Softwood BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619024434Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595523Author Cold Mountain (Han Shan)Format HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsJoint winner of Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022 (India).Book InformationISBN 9781913738389Author Sudeep SenFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Pippa Rann Books &...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615345628Author Tamae K PrindleFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Syllabic PressPublisher Syllabic PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983770862Author Kamran Mir HazarFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Hazaristan PressPublisher Hazaristan PressWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944676547Author Machiko KobayashiFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint AHA BooksPublisher AHA BooksWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398485044Author Nidhi BhatFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Shinkichi Takahashi is one of the truly great figures in world poetry. In the classic Zen tradition of economy, disciplined attention, and subtlety, Takahashi lucidly captures that which is contemporary in its problems and experiences, yet classic in its...

The Shadow of My Ancestral Tree speaks of many young women's experiences, particularly the children of immigrant parents. It is a collection of poetry about life, which explores themes such as trauma, grief, heartbreak, politics, family, hope, feminism...

A poet-priest of the late Edo period, Ryokan (1758-1831) was the most important Japanese poet of his age. This volume contains not only the largest English translation yet made of his principal poems, but also an introduction that sets the poetry in its...

The 'Miyah' community of the Northeast Indian state of Assam is formed from the descendants of migrant Bengali-Muslims living in the chars (low-lying islands prone to floods and erosion). Very rarely do we see translations of literature from India's...

With this groundbreaking collection, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry. The Chinese poetic tradition is the...