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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738746606Author Earl TrotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Peach Blossom PressPublisher Peach Blossom PressWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and yet there has been remarkably little serious scholarship in English on his achievement. This book is intended to address that virtual void by establishing the ground...

A successor to Korean feminist poets like Kim Hyesoon, Yi Won frequently writes about the perilousness of maintaining one's human identity in a high-tech, digital environment. In this debut book in English, her poems range from avant-garde prose poems to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922169402Author Sonja ArntzenFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Quirin PressPublisher Quirin PressWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

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

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is widely acknowledged as the greatest of all the Japanese haiku poets. In the original Japanese, the two defining features of the haiku form are its 5-7-5 sound unit format (the syllable being the corresponding unit in English)...

The Three Cornered World is the novelistic expression of the contrast between the Western ethical view of reality and the Eastern ethical view by one of Japan's most beloved authors. Natsume Soseki tells of an artist who retreats to a country resort and...

in the mirror there is always this moment this moment leads to the door of rebirth the door opens to the sea the rose of time -Bei Dao The Rose of Time: New & Selected Poems presents a glowing selection of poetry by contemporary China's...

The North American debut of Tue Sy-poet, monk, scholar, dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnam-and a new bilingual edition to the Seedbank series.In addition to being a preeminent scholar of world philosophy and a Zen master,...

The finest ghazals of Mir Taqi Mir, the most accomplished of Urdu poets.The prolific Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810), widely regarded as the most accomplished poet in Urdu, composed his ghazals-a poetic form of rhyming couplets-in a distinctive Indian style...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809985Author R. H. BlythFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376486Author Wang YinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint 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 9780645356397Author Alvin PangFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Recent Work PressPublisher Recent Work PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

These are poems of wonder and precarious elation, about learning to embrace the seemingly disparate landscapes of hermitage and court, the seemingly diverse addresses of mystery and clarity, disruption and stillness - all the roadblocks and rewards on...

In a culture where poetry is considered the highest form of human language, Gendun Chopel is revered as Tibet's greatest modern poet. Born in 1903 as British troops were preparing to invade his homeland, he was identified at any early age as the...

Yam Gong is a leading Hong Kong poet who has worked as a laborer since adolescence and produced many of his poems during his work breaks. An outsider poet, he explores the synthesis of everyday life and philosophical inquiry. Using shifting tonal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947879171Author Christina SngFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Raw Dog Screaming PressPublisher Raw Dog Screaming PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789395400428Author Razi AbuzarFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint EphbooksPublisher EphbooksWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

Kobayashi ISSA (1763-1828) followed Yosa BUSON, who followed Matsuo BASHO: the three greatest Japanese haiku poets. This book is the third in the series of 3 handsome presentation hardcovers from the Buddhist Society, which share a key common feature:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390215638Author Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737982968Author Stephen J GoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Outcast PressPublisher Outcast PressWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The poems of Arundhathi Subramaniam's Love Without a Story celebrate an expanding kinship: of passion and friendship, mythic quest and modern-day longing, in a world animated by dialogue and dissent, delirium and silence. Circling themes of intimacy and...

"Bloom and change your way of living," Xi Chuan exhorts us. "Bloom / unleash a deep underground spring with your rhizome." In his wildly roving new collection, Bloom & Other Poems, Xi Chuan, like a modern-day master of the fu-rhapsody, delves into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387164109Author Keki N DaruwallaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Speaking Tiger Publishing Private LimitedPublisher Speaking Tiger Publishing...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492722294Author Musume Sugawara No TakasueFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Toyo PressPublisher Toyo PressWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420942965Author Li PoFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788182534766Author Sanober KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Cyberwit.netPublisher Cyberwit.net

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989091220Author Stephen BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Millichap Books LLCPublisher Millichap Books LLCWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

In Boiled Owls, Azad Ashim Sharma delves into the kaleidoscopic terrain of cocaine addiction to explore the strain it puts on his speaker's interior, as well as family and those in close proximity. With frenetic language finely calibrated, sitting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916062207Author Geoffrey M WilkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Geoffrey M. WilkinsonPublisher Geoffrey M. WilkinsonWeight(grams)...

A debut English-language collection of hopeful and carefully attentive poems by one of South Korea's most lauded young poets.This collection offers a selection of poems from Sin Yong Mok's earlier collections, intended to serve as an illustration of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604595338Author Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint A & D PublishingPublisher A & D PublishingWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953736178Author Christina SngFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Interstellar Flight PressPublisher Interstellar Flight PressWeight(grams)...

Yosa BUSON (1716-1784) followed immediately after Matsuo BASHO and before Kobayashi ISSA: the three greatest Japanese haiku poets. This book is the second in the series of 3 handsome presentation hardcovers from the Buddhist Society, which share a key...

This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on the Oxford Academic platform. It is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence. Around the...

Crevasse, Hong Kong-based writer Nicholas Wong's newest collection of poetry, which won the 2016 Lamda Literary Award, starts with an epigraph from Maurice Merleau-Ponty that notes the impossibility of observing one's own physical body and, therefore,...

'The Courtesans Reply' is a long poem sequence in the voices of Indian courtesans - women famed for their skills in music, dancing, storytelling and the art of love. Playing on historical findings, and drawing inspiration from the monologue plays of the...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251942Author Yau NoiFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 161g