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The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore 9780804835763
RRP: $13.71$10.57Awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1913, Rabindranath Tagore (1861- 1941) is considered the most important poet of modern-day India. He was also a distinguished author, educator, social reformer, and philosopher. Today, Tagore along with Mahatma... -
Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English poetry from Sri Lanka and its diasporas by Vidyan Ravinthiran
RRP: $25.71$17.50Sri 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 Golden Thread by Amali Gunasekera
RRP: $18.85$12.69Blending the sacred and the everyday, Amali Gunasekera's second collection The Golden Thread is a search for grace through the deep process of transmuting emotional trauma into peace. She takes up Muriel Rukeyser's famous line: 'What would happen if... -
Sky Above, Great Wind by Kazuaki Tanahashi
RRP: $29.14$19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590309827Author Kazuaki TanahashiFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Memorial Feast for Koekoetoey Khan: A Kirghiz Epic Poem in the Manas Tradition by Saghimbay Orozbaq uulu
RRP: $22.28$15.59This great Central Asian epic, passed down through generations and now brought to life in a new translation, carries the reader into a world of nomads, warriors and horselords'I am a steel-fanged lion, a dragon ready to pounce, a mighty poplar with... -
Risalo by Shah Abdul Latif
RRP: $51.37$40.46The greatest classic of Sindhi literature presented here in an authoritative and vivid modern English translation.Shah Abdul Latif's Risalo is acknowledged across Pakistan and the wider diaspora as the greatest classic of Sindhi literature. In this... -
Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You by Meena Kandasamy
RRP: $18.85$12.56All disciplinea deception to hide the wildness, all symmetry an excuse for keeping count. Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You cements Meena Kandasamy as one of the most exciting, radical thinkers at work today. These poems chronicle wanting, art-making,... -
The Defiant Muse: Vietnamese Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present by Nguyen thi Minh Ha
$65.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558615502Author Nguyen Thi Minh HaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The... -
Out of Bounds by Jackie Kay
RRP: $34.31$22.90From 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... -
Migritude by Shailja Patel 9781885030054
RRP: $24.00$15.88The 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... -
The Mountain Poems Of Meng Hao-jan by Hao-Jan Meng
RRP: $22.28$14.89Apologies 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 -
How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology by Zong-qi Cai 9780231139410
RRP: $65.18$52.21In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci,... -
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth 9780811201803
RRP: $22.28$17.67The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries-Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)-his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions. They are... -
Ideograms in China by Henri Michaux 9780811214902
RRP: $13.71$11.01Allen Ginsberg called Michaux a genius, and Jorge Luis Borges said that his work is without equal in the literature of our time. Henri Michaux (1899-1984) wrote Ideograms in China as an introduction to Leon Chang's La calligraphie chinoise (1971), a work... -
Haiku Japanese Art and Poetry by Michiko Warkentyne 9780764956102
$30.10Apologies 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 -
COLD MOUNTAIN Transcendental Poetry by Wandering Poet 9780692510797
RRP: $27.44$23.52Apologies 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... -
Sufi Lyrics by Bullhe Shah
RRP: $51.37$40.46A modern translation of verses by Bullhe Shah, the iconic eighteenth-century Sufi poet, treasured by readers worldwide to this day.The poetry of Bullhe Shah (d. 1758) is considered one of the glories of premodern Panjabi literature. Born in Uch, Panjab,... -
Weather Wheel by Mimi Khalvati 9781847772589
RRP: $17.07$11.96In these new poems, each of them written in couplets and contained within the space of sixteen lines, Mimi Khalvati takes the weather, the seasons and the passage of night and day as the ground on which she draws her emblems of human life and love. An... -
The Heart of God: Poems of Life, Prayers of Love by Rabindranath Tagore
RRP: $20.57$13.72"Tagore's life reminds me to take a step back. The time he allowed himself to learn and dream was a commitment of years and decades."-Rupi KaurRabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is thought of as the most important poet of modern-day India. This literary... -
Moving a Stone: Bilingual in Chinese and English by Yam Gong
$23.36Yam 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... -
Selected Poems of Du Fu by Du Fu 9780231128292
RRP: $37.74$29.14Du 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... -
Again I Hear These Waters by Multiple Authors 9781911284925
RRP: $18.85$13.10The 'Miyah' community of the Northeast Indian state of Assam is formed from the descendants of migrant Bengali-Muslims living in the chars (low-lying islands prone to floods and erosion). Very rarely do we see translations of literature from India's... -
Pillar of Books by Bo Young Moon
RRP: $20.57$13.72This debut collection in English from Korean poet Moon Bo Young insists that you, as a reader, put down your expectations of what should be important or serious. While these poems are about god, death, love, and literature, they are also just as much... -
Postcards from god by Imtiaz Dharker
RRP: $20.58$13.72An 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... -
Ghazals: Translations of Classic Urdu Poetry by Mir Taqi Mir
RRP: $29.07$23.23The 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... -
The World's Lightest Motorcycle by Won Yi
RRP: $18.85$12.66A 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... -
Grotesque Weather and Good People by Solah Lim
RRP: $20.57$16.64A debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by an award-winning South Korean poet and novelist.By turns humorous and dark, these poems explore the simultaneous intimacy and alienation of everyday life in urban Seoul. Writing in a simple... -
Bang-E-Dara ( Urdu Edition ) by Muhammad Iqbal 9781720709916
RRP: $25.71$25.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781720709916Author Muhammad IqbalFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
For All My Walking: Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santoka by Taneda Santoka 9780231125178
RRP: $37.74$29.14In April 1926, the Japanese poet Taneda Santoka (1882-1940) set off on the first of many walking trips, journeys in which he tramped thousands of miles through the Japanese countryside. These journeys were part of his religious training as a Buddhist... -
Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! by Daljit Nagra 9780571264919
RRP: $17.14$11.49Look We Have Coming to Dover!, the remarkable debut by Daljit Nagra, marked the arrival of a thrilling new voice in poetry and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection along the way. In this, his second volume, his writing shows every bit the... -
Strong In the Rain by Kenji Miyazawa
RRP: $20.58$13.72Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is now widely viewed as Japan's greatest poet of the 20th century. Little known in his lifetime, he died at 37 from tuberculosis, but has since become a much loved children's author whose magical tales have been translated into... -
Yi Sang: Selected Works by Choi Mee Don
RRP: $37.72$28.65Winner of the Big Other Award in TranslationWinner of MLA's 17th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary WorkFormally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang's works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of... -
The Interior Landscape by A. K. Ramanujan 9781590176788
RRP: $29.14$19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176788Author A.K. RamanujanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 121gDimensions(mm)... -
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho by Haruo Shirane 9780804730990
RRP: $51.44$45.27Basho (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... -
Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon
RRP: $22.28$17.60*Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award* The title section of Kim Hyesoon's powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which... -
Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology by David Hinton
RRP: $32.57$29.06With this groundbreaking collection, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry. The Chinese poetic tradition is the... -
Dreaming the Mountain: Poems by Tuệ Sỹ by Tuệ Sỹ
RRP: $22.28$14.80The 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 Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems By Ono No Komachi And Izumi Shikibu by Jane Hishfield
RRP: $22.28$19.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679729587Author Ono no KomachiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Selected Poems by Rabindranath Tagore 9780198069645
RRP: $29.14$25.23This volume is part of 'The Oxford Tagore Translations' series, a prestigious project undertaken by Oxford University Press in collaboration with Visva-Bharati to publish English translations of a wide range of Tagore's writings including his poetry,... -
Complete Poems by Li Ch'Ing-Chao 9780811207454
RRP: $20.57$16.43The Complete Poems of Li Ch'ing-chao (1084-c. 1151) brings together for the first time in English translation all the surviving verse of China's greatest woman poet. Written during the final years of the Sung Dynasty, with its political intrigues and...