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The Haiku Handbook is the first book to give readers everything they need to begin appreciating, writing, or teaching haiku. In this groundbreaking and now-classic volume, the authors present haiku poets writing in English, Spanish, French, German, and...

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

Originally published in Chinese in 1999, Salsa has been Hsia Yu's most successful collection of poetry, selling thousands of copies in Taiwan and Hong Kong alone. Zephyr Press's 2001 edition Fusion Kitsch included a generous selection of material from...

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 Beautiful and Useless, Kim Min Jeong exposes the often funny and contradictory rifts that appear in the language of everyday circumstance. She uses slang, puns, cultural referents, and 'naughty, unwomanly" language in order to challenge readers to...

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

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,...

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...

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...

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 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 *...

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 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 9781556595622Author Liu Tsung-yuanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint 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.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)...