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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838099015Author Ian L. ClayFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Hawksmoor PublishingPublisher Hawksmoor Publishing

A modern translation of verses by Bullhe Shah, the iconic eighteenth-century Sufi poet, treasured by readers worldwide to this day.Bullhe Shah's work is among the glories of Panjabi literature, and the iconic eighteenth-century poet is widely regarded as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972869232Author Hao-jan MengFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 164g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788170286929Author Kuldip SalilFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Rajpal & SonsPublisher Rajpal & SonsDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376462Author Vivek NarayananFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362617224Author Aishwarya IyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint UnknownPublisher UnknownDimensions(mm) 127mm * 203mm * 6mm

For centuries poetry has been a form of knowledge and a way of knowing for non centred people. In this collection Muneera recenters her voice and the voices of other people that are often times relegated to the sidelines or misrepresented in mainstream...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781778042218Author Earl TrotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Peach Blossom PressPublisher Peach Blossom PressWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556592799Author Wei Ying-wuFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 581g

This is the first English translation of selected poems by one of the most important and unusual modern poets of South Korea. In contrast to the strident political protests found in the poetry of many of his contemporaries, Pak Chaesam's work is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936671625Author Su DongpoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Pinyon PublishingPublisher Pinyon PublishingWeight(grams) 426g

The Ramayana is one of the great epics of the ancient world, with versions spanning the cultures, religions and languages of Asia. Its story of Rama's quest to recover his wife Sita from her abduction by Raavana, the Lord of the Underworld, has enchanted...

The seventeenth-century Hindi classic treasured for its subtle and beautiful portrayal of divine and erotic love's pleasures and sorrows.The seven hundred poems of the Hindi poet Biharilal's Satsai weave amorous narratives of the god Krishna and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679729587Author Ono no KomachiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

This important and much-disputed essay edited by Ezra Pound from the manuscript of Ernest Fenollosa (and published in Instigations, London, 1920) has since gone through several editions, despite the ridicule of such sinologists as Professor George...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372242Author A.C. GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177754Author Hiroaki SatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 185gDimensions(mm)...

Before and since his enforced exile from 1989, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets from China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many...

Give, Eat, and Live is a selection of poems translated from the 12th century Tamil poet Avvaiyar, arguably one of the most important female poets in Tamil's two-thousand-and-five-hundred years of literary history, and certainly one of the best known, of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824810122Author Matsuo BashoFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i PressWeight(grams)...

In April 1926, the Japanese poet Taneda Santoka (1882-1940) set off on the first of many walking trips, journeys in which he tramped thousands of miles through the Japanese countryside. These journeys were part of his religious training as a Buddhist...

In 1944-45, Capt. G.H. Davies served with the hard-fighting 53rd Welsh Division. He was an artillery officer in command of a battery of 25-pdr field guns and saw action from Normandy to the final surrender of Nazi Germany. Capt. Davies was present at the...

Xue Tao (A.D. 768-831) was well known as a poet in an age when all men of learning were poets--and almost all women were illiterate. As an entertainer and official government hostess, she met, and impressed, many of the most talented and powerful figures...

Late in life, Meng Chiao (A.D. 751--814) developed an experimental poetry of virtuosic beauty, a poetry that anticipated landmark developments in the modern Western tradition by a millennium. With the T'ang Dynasty crumbling, Meng's later work employed...

Winner 2023-2024 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature, Donald Keene Center of Japanese CultureCompiled in the early tenth century, the Kokinshu is an anthology of some eleven hundred poems that aimed to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783955334932Author Kd WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Ylva Verlag E.Kfr.Publisher Ylva Verlag E.Kfr.Weight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

*Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award* The title section of Kim Hyesoon's powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which...

A teenage king in 223 BC, Antiochus III inherited an empire in shambles, ravaged by civil strife and eroded by territorial secessions. He proved himself a true heir of Alexander: he defeated rebel armies and embarked on a campaign of conquest and...

Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Thong's new and absorbingly readable translation (on pages facing the Vietnamese text) is...

Blending the sacred and the everyday, Amali Gunasekera's second collection The Golden Thread is a search for grace through the deep process of transmuting emotional trauma into peace. She takes up Muriel Rukeyser's famous line: 'What would happen if...

"In the name of / Man, member, / and the holy fluid, / Amen," begins Mutsuo Takahashi's epic one-thousand-line erotic fantasy poem, "Ode," the centerpiece of his groundbreaking collection of queer poetry, Poems of a Penisist. Takahashi's work,...

Compulsory voting is widely used in the democratic world, and it is well established that it increases electoral participation. Beyond Turnout: How Compulsory Voting Shapes Citizens and Political Parties assesses the effects of compulsory voting beyond...

This volume consists of fourteen original essays that showcase the latest thinking about John Milton's emergence as a popular and canonical author. Contributors consider how Milton positioned himself in relation to the book trade, contemporaneous...

This book examines facets of North Indian Muslim identity c. 1850-1950. It focuses specifically on the role of literature and poetry as the medium through which certain Muslim 'voices' articulated, negotiated, configured and expressed their...

The Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Moskito was a fast twin-engined German night fighter aircraft. The German Ta 154 night fighter which supposed to be an answer to the British Mosquito.ReviewsAnother good addition to the TopDrawings series; I am a fan of this new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190211219Author Associate Professor of English Sonja LaunspachFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams)...

In a 1989 interview, Han Dong declared that he wrote poetry for nobody, not even himself. He likens the poet to a roofer: "I write poetry for the constitution of poetry, just as a roofer gives no thought to who lives in the house whose roof he is...

Vaan Nguyen has been described as "a veritable juggler of Hebrew," a poet whose work radically remixes world classics and pop culture, the personal and the political, past and present. Born in 1982 in Israel to refugees of the Vietnam War, Nguyen's debut...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374017Author Arvind Krishna MehrotraFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries-Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)-his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions. They are...