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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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957071155Author Selected International PoetsFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Lost Tower PublicationsPublisher Lost Tower PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602352346Author Jeongrye ChoiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738746613Author Earl TrotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Peach Blossom PressPublisher Peach Blossom PressWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781881717911Author Andy DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Innerworld PublicationsPublisher Innerworld PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788170287919Author Kuldip SalilFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Rajpal & SonsPublisher Rajpal & Sons

Song Lin's poems explore his sojourns in several countries, the natural world outside him, and his own inner landscape. His early imprisonment during the 1989 Tienanmen Square protests gave rise to the title poem, as well as a profound sense of yearning...

In this stunningly inventive collection-a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in poetry-Ali excavates the devastation wrought upon his childhood home, Kashmir, and reveals a more personal devastation: his mother's death and the journey with her...

Ya Shi, an "outsider" poet, who teaches math and lives 1,000 miles from the Beijing literary scene, is celebrated among lovers of Chinese poetry from the conservative to the avant-garde. This bilingual (Chinese/English) collection draws together jagged...

The seventeenth-century Hindi classic treasured for its subtle and beautiful portrayal of divine and erotic love's pleasures and sorrows.In his Satsai, or Seven Hundred Poems, the seventeenth-century poet Biharilal draws on a rich vernacular tradition,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591532Author Arthur SzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 170g

The End of the Dark Era is the first book of Mongolian poetry to be published in the United States, and one of the few avant-garde collections to have come from the vast steppes of Mongolia. Poet Tseveendorjin Oidov, who is also one of Mongolia's most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784907359379Author Minoru YoshiokaFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Isobar PressPublisher Isobar PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 203mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692510797Author Wandering PoetFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Wandering PoetPublisher Wandering PoetWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

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. Yang Lian...

First English-language collection from a leading poet in South Korea.Kim Haengsook is one South Korea's most eminent contemporary poets, but a complete collection of her poems has never appeared in English before now. This selection draws on her work...

Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two young working-class men who dreamt of changing their country for the better. Becoming John Curtin and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957756820Author Mir Taqi MirFormat PaperbackPage Count 744Imprint Ghazal Sara Dot OrgPublisher Ghazal Sara Dot OrgWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904556497Author Mutsuo TakahashiFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785437922Author Abu'l-Ala Al-MaarriFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088085790Author Sabine Ruh HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784907359157Author Masaya SaitoFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Isobar PressPublisher Isobar PressWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

Bhaskar Chakrabarti's poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta. His trenchant poetic voice was one of the most significant to emerge in the 1960s and '70s perhaps the most prolific period of modern Bengali poetry. Spanning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857428882Author Salim BarakatFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Seagull BooksPublisher Seagull BooksWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578642796Author HydrusFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint HydrusPublisher HydrusWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 5mm

This vibrant collection presents 145 brief Bengali lyric poems dedicated to the Hindu goddesses Kali and Uma. These poems - many of which are presented here for the first time in English translation - were written from the early eighteenth century up to...

Stray Birds (1916) is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore. Translated into English by Tagore after he received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, Stray Birds is a powerful collection of short poems by a master of Indian literature. "Stray birds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914150319Author Anne MoriceFormat PaperbackImprint Dean Street PressPublisher Dean Street Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781743058930Author Tim ReevesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Wakefield PressPublisher Wakefield PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999740221Author Alan ParkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Dead Budgie PublishingPublisher Dead Budgie PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914079924Author Kertu SillasteFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm * 5mm

Tom Pearson grows up in an impoverished, north-eastern English city. A socialist by virtue of his upbringing and an unabashed supporter of the Russian communist party. While at University, studying physics, he is seduced by a female lecturer and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781465334909Author J Lamah WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 494g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913971212Author John TownsendFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Book HousePublisher Salariya Book Company Ltd

Avery is a little curious child who simply loves history and...can travel in it! Every title is an adventure in history bringing together fiction and non-fiction: follow the "fictional" story of Avery and his friends and learn history with the...

Co-published with the Gardner Institute At last there is a handbook that everyone in higher education can use to help increase transfer student success. This comprehensive resource has been brought together to meet the need for a truly holistic approach...

The topics chosen for this book are inspired by the studies of Alan J. Bishop, so there are six universal activities that characterize mathematics: Counting, Locating, Measuring, Designing, Playing & Explaining. The ability developed in this activity...