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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807240Author Ursula K. Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Washington State Book Award (Poetry) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781556594557Author Red PineFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher...

This is a book of newly-translated Rumi poems, by the pre-eminent Rumi poet Coleman Barks, to celebrate Rumi's 800th birthday in 2007, the Year of Rumi. The book will have 90 new poems, 82 of them never-before published in any form. Rumi's poetry, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172575Author A. C. GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

In a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching, David Hinton strips this ancient Chinese masterwork of the usual apparatus and discovers a deeply poetic and philosophical text. Teasing out an elegant vision of the cosmos as...

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This book ranges from the melancholy to the cheerful, and to poems full of nostalgia: they essentially deal with concrete, rather than abstract, conceptions. Poets included are Ch'u Yuan, writing in 300 BC, Mei Sheng and Fu I, and Po Chu-I who wrote in...

Wang Wei, one of Chinese literature's greatest poets, divided his time between the court and his country estate, where he drew inspiration from the mountains and solitude. His poetry affirms his belief in a whole natural order, and his delicately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807424Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385721981Author Tony BarnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)...

Cultivating the Empty Field is a modern translation of the core of Chinese Ch'an master Hongzhi's Extensive Record.First to articulate the meditation method known to contemporary Zen practitioners as shikantaza ("just sitting") Chinese Zen master Hongzhi...

Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804263Author Kazuaki TanahashiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Auden, Day, Lewis, Spender, MacNeice and the other key poets of the Thirties were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism, by the class-struggle and a passionate belief in poets as people whose actions are as publically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804379Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711602Author Du FuFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

China has a strong and ancient tradition of erotic poetry by both men and women, and this unique collection includes poems from three thousand years ago to the present day, ranging from the highly literary to the sexually explicit - many of them...

Silver Medal Winner for Poetry at the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards.A powerful new anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia has found its expression in the words of the world's greatest poets.No, Love Is Not Dead is a timely...

The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty-from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth's loose...

Claimed by some to have been compiled by Confucius in the 5th century BCE, the Book of Songs is an ancient anthology of Chinese poetry. Collecting poems over a number of centuries, the anthology - sometimes known as the Classic of Poetry (or Shi-jing) -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596452Author Red PineFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint 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 9789629966591Author David HawkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his exploration of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619024434Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

This is a book of poems by four veteran Chinese revolutionaries. Chen Duxiu led China's early cultural awakening before founding the Communist Party in 1921. Mao led the Party to power in 1949. Zheng Chaolin, Chen Duxiu's disciple and, like him, a...

The Uyghur people of Central Asia have a long and distinguished tradition of poetry - indeed, their first oral epic was circulating as early as the 2nd century BCE. In the medieval period Sufi poetry flourished, embracing Persian forms such as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900891694Author Zhimo XuFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint The Oleander PressPublisher The Oleander Press

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family--the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes--all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all...

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

Tu Fu (712-770 C.E.) has for a millennium been widely considered the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition, and Hinton's original translation played a key role in developing that reputation in America. Most of Tu Fu's best poems were written in the last...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645471127Author Rebecca NieFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China's most acclaimed poets-now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai WeiweiOne of the most influential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596728Author Tao YuanmingFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Priceless Wisdom from a Modern Tao Te Ching Odyssey"...this book will completely absorb your attention from the beginning..." -Emanuele Pettener, PhD, assistant professor of Italian and writer in residence at Florida Atlantic University#1 New Release in...

A Treatise on Stars extends Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's intensely phenomenological poetics to the fiery bodies in a "field of heaven...outside spacetime." Long, lyrical lines map a geography of interconnected, interdimensional intelligence that exists in all...

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...

The three arts of poetry, calligraphy and painting are regarded in China as the Triple Excellence, and they are brought together here in a beautifully presented anthology of forty Chinese love poems ranging from the earliest known works in the famous...

Su Dong-po is recognized as one of the main Chinese poets of the Sung Dynasty and this bilingual collection contains work never previously translated.Book InformationISBN 9781945680274Author Su Dong-PoFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint White Pine...

"Wear poetry as both perfume and armor." In Turning to Wallpaper, lush, elegant language contrasts with the disturbing and at times gruesome imagery to create a collection that knows exactly how to haunt the reader. Wong's words and artistry are vibrant...

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. This anthology opens up new religious and poetic...