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The greatest classic of Sindhi literature presented here in an authoritative and vivid modern English translation.Shah Abdul Latif's Risalo is acknowledged across Pakistan and the wider diaspora as the greatest classic of Sindhi literature. In this...

Ko Un has long been a living legend in Korea, both as a poet and as a person. Allen Ginsberg once wrote, 'Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscenti, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.' When a writer has...

In these self-mocking poems - populated with youths and elders, cellphones and televisions - Jiang Tao presents and dissects a discontent with the state of the world. The complex use of metaphor highlights his profound wit and poetic mastery, building...

This ground-breaking handbook explores the nature of spirituality and its relevance to the mental health and well-being of people coming into contact with health, social care, education and allied support services. Incorporating the perspectives and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999984687Author Tim EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Pendlebury Press LimitedPublisher Pendlebury Press LimitedWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm)...

The Rivered Earth contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working with a composer.Entitled 'Songs in Time of War', 'Shared Ground', 'The Traveller' and 'Seven...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874515640Author WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint University Press of New EnglandPublisher University Press of New England

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626549319Author Otagaki RengetsuFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Seasons of Sacred Lust is Kazuko Shiraishi's challenge to the conventions of Japanese erotic poetry. Born in Vancouver, Canada, Shiraishi was taken to Japan by her family just prior to World War II, and her first poetry (written at age seventeen,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377346Author Lakdhas WikkramasinhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

This debut collection in English from Korean poet Moon Bo Young insists that you, as a reader, put down your expectations of what should be important or serious. While these poems are about god, death, love, and literature, they are also just as much...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784907359386Author Taylor MignonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Isobar PressPublisher Isobar PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 203mm * 8mm

The Tang dynasty (618 - 907 AD), is celebrated as the greatest moment in Chinese poetry, a time when poetry was highly rated, and some of China's most famous poets were writing. Du Fu (712-770 AD) is widely regarded as the greatest of these. He himself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784907359416Author Rin IshigakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Isobar PressPublisher Isobar PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615956800Author Jeannine Hall GaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Two Sylvias PressPublisher Two Sylvias PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

Classical Sanskrit literature boasts an exquisite canon of poetry devoted to erotic love. In Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit, noted translator and scholar R. Parthasarathy curates a selection in a new verse translation that introduces readers to Sanskrit...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385093767Author Harold Gould HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

"Only when a man becomes all naked do you know the shades of his life as an existential being," writes Tatsuhiko Ishii in his sensuous, exhilarating new collection of poetry Bathhouse and Other Tanka. For many decades now, Ishii has turned the classical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557284884Author Muohammad Afaifai MaotarFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint University of Arkansas PressPublisher University of Arkansas...

Henrietta Anne Stuart, youngest child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born in June 1644 in the besieged city of Exeter at the very height of the English Civil War. The hostilities had separated her parents and her mother was on the run from...

This book examines one of the most fundamental issues in twelfth-century English politics: justice. It demonstrates that during the foundational period for the common law, the question of judgement and judicial ethics was a topic of heated debate - a...

The poems of Yang Wan-Li (1127-1206), esteemed as one of the masters of Southern Sung poetry, reflect the magnificent landscape paintings of Sung China. His work is full of humanity and a zest for living, expressed in direct, unadorned language.Ads in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807004Author Sam HamillFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987634023Author Chelsea HuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Chelsea HuiPublisher Chelsea HuiWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939832184Author Frank WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Plum White PressPublisher Plum White PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957240121Author Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Warbler ClassicsPublisher Warbler ClassicsWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Poems by Nguyen Phan Que Mai Translated from the Vietnamese by Bruce Weigl and Nguyen Phan Que Mai Nguyen Phan Que Mai is among the most exciting writers to emerge from post-war Vietnam. Bruce Weigl, driven by his personal experiences as a soldier...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771005138Author Joy KogawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922181749Author Jeffrey AnglesFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Vagabond PressPublisher Vagabond PressWeight(grams) 140g

Yi Lei published her poem "A Single Woman's Bedroom" in 1987, when cohabitation before marriage was a punishable crime in China. She was met with major critical acclaim-and with outrage-for her frank embrace of women's erotic desire and her unabashed...

"Outside of her remarkable poems, we know next to nothing about Yu Xuanji," David Young writes. "She was born in 844 and died in 868, at the age of twenty-four, condemned to death for the murder of her maid...We owe the survival of her forty-nine poems...

The Complete Poems of Li Ch'ing-chao (1084-c. 1151) brings together for the first time in English translation all the surviving verse of China's greatest woman poet. Written during the final years of the Sung Dynasty, with its political intrigues and...

A debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by an award-winning South Korean poet and novelist.By turns humorous and dark, these poems explore the simultaneous intimacy and alienation of everyday life in urban Seoul. Writing in a simple...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922181374Author Jake LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Vagabond PressPublisher Vagabond Press

The prominent contributors to this edited volume were asked to discuss neglected classic works in both Western and non-Western philosophy, and to make a case for their contemporary importance in an accessible and inviting way. The result - a successor to...

"Where I Live" combines Arundhathi Subramaniam's first two Indian collections of poetry, "On Cleaning Bookshelves" and "Where I Live", with a selection of new work. Her poems explore various ambivalences - around human intimacy with its bottlenecks and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915760043Author Cat ChongFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Broken Sleep BooksPublisher Broken Sleep BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

"The road to Shu is hard, but harder still is to convey the spirit with which these poems were first written over a thousand years ago. And yet the translators have given us translations that feel alive, as if they were more like a dance between poet and...

A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito-part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy. Written between April 2012 and November 2013, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits adopts a non-linear...