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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101908341Author Aziz Isa ElkunFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615345628Author Tamae K PrindleFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Syllabic PressPublisher Syllabic PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983770862Author Kamran Mir HazarFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Hazaristan PressPublisher Hazaristan PressWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

In 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,...

'I have so carefully mapped the corners of my mindThat I am forever waking in a lost country...'SUMMER REQUIEM traces the immutable shifting of the seasons, the relentless rhythms of a great world that both 'gifts and harms'. Luminous, resonant and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398485044Author Nidhi BhatFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Shinkichi Takahashi is one of the truly great figures in world poetry. In the classic Zen tradition of economy, disciplined attention, and subtlety, Takahashi lucidly captures that which is contemporary in its problems and experiences, yet classic in its...

The Shadow of My Ancestral Tree speaks of many young women's experiences, particularly the children of immigrant parents. It is a collection of poetry about life, which explores themes such as trauma, grief, heartbreak, politics, family, hope, feminism...

The '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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143464907Author Arundhathi SubramaniamFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint Penguin Ebury PressPublisher Penguin Random House India

Surdas has been regarded as the epitome of artistry in Old Hindi religious poetry from the end of the sixteenth century, when he lived, to the present day. His fame rests upon his remarkable refashioning of the widely known narrative of the cowherd deity...

A modern translation of verses by Bullhe Shah, the iconic eighteenth-century Sufi poet, treasured by readers worldwide to this day.Bullhe Shah's work is among the glories of Panjabi literature, and the iconic eighteenth-century poet is widely regarded as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788170286929Author Kuldip SalilFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Rajpal & SonsPublisher Rajpal & SonsDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376462Author Vivek NarayananFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint 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 9789362617224Author Aishwarya IyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint UnknownPublisher UnknownDimensions(mm) 127mm * 203mm * 6mm

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

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 Ramayana is one of the great epics of the ancient world, with versions spanning the cultures, religions and languages of Asia. Its story of Rama's quest to recover his wife Sita from her abduction by Raavana, the Lord of the Underworld, has enchanted...

Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight. Every new student of haiku quickly learns that Basho was the greatest of the Old Japanese...

The seventeenth-century Hindi classic treasured for its subtle and beautiful portrayal of divine and erotic love's pleasures and sorrows.The seven hundred poems of the Hindi poet Biharilal's Satsai weave amorous narratives of the god Krishna and the...

Apologies 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 *...

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...

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 9780824810122Author Matsuo BashoFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i PressWeight(grams)...

In 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...

Xue Tao (A.D. 768-831) was well known as a poet in an age when all men of learning were poets--and almost all women were illiterate. As an entertainer and official government hostess, she met, and impressed, many of the most talented and powerful figures...

An iconic figure in the emergence of feminist poetry in South Korea and now internationally renowned, Kim Hyesoon pushes the poetic envelope into the farthest reaches of the lyric universe. In her new collection, Kim depicts the memory of war trauma and...

Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Thong's new and absorbingly readable translation (on pages facing the Vietnamese text) is...

In 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...

Look 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...

Blending 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...

A.K. Ramanujan (1929-1993) was, arguably, modern India's finest English-language poet. This volume of his "Collected Poems" includes poems out of the three books he published during his lifetime, and a fourth collection never published before. It is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513299976Author Dhan Gopal MukerjiFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513299952Author Dhan Gopal MukerjiFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

This book chronicles the rise and subsequent fortunes of goddess worship (Saktism) in the region of Bengal from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. The primary documents are the lyrics directed to the goddess, beginning with those of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789360456207Author Kala KrishnanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint ContextPublisher Westland Publications Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624121524Author Ilyeon KimFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Seoul SelectionPublisher Seoul Selection

The South Korean poet and playwright explores loneliness, alienation, and flashes of togetherness, creating a world that his translator calls "overcast, yet playful."Yoo writes poems that invite readers to reflect upon daily sorrows, while also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789360451448Author Priya Sarukkai ChabriaFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint ContextPublisher Westland Publications Limited

Winner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (USA)2024 Poetry Book Society Translation ChoiceKim Hyesoon here shapeshifts into birds as she explores trauma, grief and parting. Kim mixes folklore and mythology with contemporary...