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The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent, and is a major text of Hinduism. Its discussion of human goals (artha or 'purpose', kama or 'pleasure', dharma...

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Born in India and considered the leading poet on the South Asian subcontinent, Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) was a two-time Nobel nominee and winner of the 1962 Lenin Peace Prize. His evening readings in Hindi/Urdu-speaking regions drew thousands of...

WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST POETRY COLLECTION 2024'Chang has liberated the Ekphrastic form to new lyric heights and depths. Inventive, meditative, audacious, strange and soulful. A marvel of a collection that engages the eye and mind as much as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420926309Author Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 205mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419670138Author Dr Edward C ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm)...

Liberal democracy is often defended because it secures freedom, order, and prosperity. Without slighting these solid achievements, Liberal Virtues responds to those who worry that the theory and practice of free self-government neglect the importance of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143420798Author Paul E. LosenkyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt LtdDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm...

A collection of meditations on poetry, art and life, taken from the creative writing lectures of one of South Korea's most prominent living poets'Kick against words like you would kick back on a swing. You've got to feel as if the soles of your feet are...

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)...

"Sincerely is passionate. Honest. Charming. F. S. Yousaf has beautifully encapsulated in a book what it feels like to fall in love."-Madisen Kuhn, author of Almost HomeFans of top-selling Sincerely are saying "unexpected perfection", "not your basic...

In But I Don't Feel Empowered, poet and artist Suri Chan harnesses the power of beautiful language and whimsical illustrations to speak on both the lighthearted and heartbreaking experiences that bind us.But I Don't Feel Empowered is Suri Chan's debut...

Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement,...

Schizophrene traces the intersections of migration and mental illness as they unfold in post-Partition diasporic communities. Bhanu Kapil brings forward the question of a healing narrative and explores trauma and place through a somatic, poetic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952692260Author Thich Nhat HanhFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax Press

An explosive, devastating debut poetry book from the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity - and the violence of identity. For Le, a Vietnamese refugee in the West, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582437101Author Robert AitkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

This selection of poetry and prose by Ghalib provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the preeminent Urdu poet of the nineteenth century. Ghalib's poems, especially his ghazals, remain beloved throughout South Asia for their arresting...

In this, her first poetry collection since the award-winning Countries of the Body, Tishani Doshi returns to the body as a central theme, but extends beyond the corporeal to challenge the more metaphysical borders of space and time. These new poems are...

*Longlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize 2021**Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2021: A 'tour-de-force'**An Irish Times and Poetry School Book of the Year 2020*'A day will come when you won't missthe country na nagluwal sa 'yo.'-...

'An essential book for anyone invested, not only in Vietnamese literature, but the historic power of the national epic . . . and its perennial place in our species' efforts toward self-knowledge. Tim Allen's new translation offers clean fluidity while...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974261898Author Robin D GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Paraverse PressPublisher Paraverse PressWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm...

WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARDPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONFleche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when they competed locally and internationally for...

An anguished god surveys a world stricken by fundamentalism in these powerful poems by a writer whose cultural experience spans three countries: Pakistan, the country of her birth, and Britain and India, her countries of adoption. Her main themes are...

Jeet Thayil's definitive selection covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. It is the first anthology to represent not just the major poets of the past half-century - the canonical writers who have dominated Indian poetry and publishing since the...

Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of Chinese philosophers. Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the fourth and third centuries B.C., is the chief authentic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590641Author Su Tung-P'oFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590301081Author John StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Ten witty and enchanting animal fables in verse which, like a modern Aesop's Fables, can be enjoyed by young and old alike'Because it was very hot in my house one day and I could not concentrate on my work, I decided to write a summer story involving...

Indonesia, South Africa, Estonia, Lithuania, Shetland, Nicaragua: many worlds meet in these poems as nature dyes Sujata Bhatt's many languages with its own hues. The real merges with the surreal, certainties are undone in an open-ended quest. A Chinese...

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...

An anguished god surveys a world stricken by fundamentalism in these powerful poems by a writer whose cultural experience spans three countries: Pakistan, the country of her birth, and Britain and India, her countries of adoption. Her main themes are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611801538Author Sam HamillFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

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Sri Lanka has thrilled the foreign imagination as a land of infinite possibility. Portuguese, Dutch and British colonisers envisioned an island of gems and pearls, a stopping-point on the Silk Road; tourists today are sold a vision of golden beaches and...

The U.S. debut of internationally acclaimed poet and performance artist Shailja Patel, Migritude is a tour-de-force hybrid text that confounds categories and conventions. Part poetic memoir, part political history, Migritude weaves together family...

Powerfully inventive poems of love in contemporary life by Chong Hyon-jong, one of the most respected poets writing in Korea. The novelty of his poetic language with its narrative lyricism and provacative philosophy makes it impossible to classify...

Du Fu (712-777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms, showing a richness of language ranging from elegant...

From Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, Out of Bounds is a newly charted map of Britain as viewed by its black and Asian poets. It takes the reader on a riveting, sensory journey through Scotland, England and Wales, showing the whole country from a fresh...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764956102Author Michiko WarkentyneFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications Inc,US