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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...

A series of meditative long poems that ritualize perception as a way of maintaining kinship with the non-human world.In Material Witness, the poet as human subject keeps vigil over the material world as the quotidian unfolds. The line between observer...

An acclaimed "poet's poet" with deadpan wit and a gift for lyric innovation reveals an entirely new side of Korean contemporary poetry.This debut English-language collection by Shin Hae-uk offers up poems that rebel against the thin boundaries between...

The title of this debut collection, Nothing Follows, is reappropriated from a government document establishing the beginning of a refugee family's time in the United States. At every coordinate of their lives, the refugee family provides affidavits,...

An illustrated work of lyric poetry and prose on drinking green tea as a meditation.An Homage to Green Tea is an illustrated collection of poetry and prose on the beneficence of green tea, and ways to experience that beneficence. It collects two works of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356999961Author Kynpham Sing NongkynrihFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint HarperCollins Publishers IndiaPublisher HarperCollins Publishers India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877792069Author Scott ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Buddha Rose PublicationsPublisher Buddha Rose PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771316286Author Marc PerezFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Brick BooksPublisher Brick BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 145mm * 10mm

The sijo is the most popular and most Korean of all traditional Korean poetic forms, originating with the old songs of the Hyangka of the Sylla Empire (668-936) and the prose songs of the Koryo Dynasty (918-1392). Sometimes likened to haiku for its...

Recite in the Name of the Red Rose introduces Western readers to constructions of the sacred in twentieth-century Iranian poetry. Sifting through the lives and writings of modern and classical poets, Fatemeh Keshavarz provides a systematic examination of...

The subject of Toeti Heraty's poetry ranges from human encounters in an age of conceit to the confessions of an ever-restless soul. Many of Heraty's poems give voice to the emotional struggles and disappointments of women. They show a clear feminist...

A collection of poems that demystify drug addiction, alcoholism, depression, and anxiety whilst thinking through their relation to capitalism and its resistance, the family, and a writer's compulsion to write.Boiled Owls refers to an old colloquialism:...

Described by Bob Holman as "Li Po in drag, the voice of New America," Koon Woon exploded onto the poetry scene in the late 1990s. Largely self-taught, and struggling with both mental illness and homelessness, Seattle-based Woon wrote about the back...

I go out of the darkness Onto a road of darkness Lit only by the far off Moon on the edge of the mountains. -Izumi Shikobu Over the years, thousands of readers have discovered the beauty of classic Japanese poetry through the superb English versions by...

Hasan Sijzi is considered the originator of the Indo-Persian ghazal, a poetic form that endures to this day-from the legacy of Hasan's poetic descendent, Hafez, to contemporary Anglophone poets such as John Hollander, Maxine Kumin, Agha Shahid Ali, and W...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557284877Author Muhammad Afifi MatarFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint University of Arkansas PressPublisher University of Arkansas PressWeight(grams)...

"In Rohan Chhetri's Lost, Hurt, or in Transit Beautiful,? inherited literary forms- the ode, the lyric, and pristine tercets- are juxtaposed with gorgeously fractured and stylistically daring hybrid pieces. The end result is a work in which poetic...

The composition of Chinese poetry (kanshi) in the Japanese court dates to the mid-seventh century. During the Heian age (794-1185), kanshi emerged as one of two preeminent poetic genres employed by aristocrats, scholar-officials, and priests; over the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783643914743Author Paul van der VeldeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Lit VerlagPublisher Lit Verlag

Bilingual in format, this work is a collection of poems by a Vietnamese writer of the post-1975 generation. The poems are rooted in a culture that honours place and respect to landscapes of the past, present and future with contemporary juxtapositions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566566568Author DallapiccolaFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 340g

Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2013, The World of Words is a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. The poem of Naked Picnic by Un Sio San (Macau) is finest contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880684696Author ThinhFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Curbstone Press,U.S.Publisher Curbstone Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 333g

Yi Song-bok has been hailed as one of the most important contemporary South Korean poets. His first collection of poems, When Does a Rolling Stone Awaken, published in 1980, is a trenchant critique of the state of mind of Koreans and of the social and...

Ko ko thett's poems - described by John Ashbery as "brilliantly off-kilter" - bring oddball lists, linguistic inventiveness, and sardonic humor to the brutal contradictions of life and history in and outside of his native Burma. In some poems he muses on...

This volume is a translation of Choi Seung-ja's 1991 anthology titled Portrait of a Suburbanite. Published in the series of "100 Prominent Korean Poets" by Mirae Press, the poems in this volume were selected from four of Choi's previous works titled,...

The Heian court of the late ninth and early tenth centuries represents one of the most innovative and influential periods in the history of Japanese poetry. It witnessed the creation of entirely new forms of verse in poetry matches, screen poems, and...

Kim Seung-Hee's poetry is usually described in Korea as "feminist," "subversive," and "surrealist." Most important is the way her poetic voices differ radically from any other Korean poet's, male or female. Her work has sometimes found a readier...

Edwin Thumboo, one of Singapore's pioneering literary voices, brings his incisive awareness of socio-cultural history to this volume of poetry. With a humanist's eye, narratives spanning the domestic, the politic and the mythic form intertextual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374017Author Arvind Krishna MehrotraFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913891145Author Nabina DasFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Balestier PressPublisher Balestier PressWeight(grams) 236g

The 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...

Wang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often spoken of, with his contemporaries Li Po and Tu Fu, as one of the three greatest poets in China's 3,000-year poetic tradition. Of the three, Wang was the consummate master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came...

Ko Un has long been a living legend in Korea, both as a poet and as a person. Allen Ginsberg once wrote, 'Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscenti, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.' When a writer has...

The Rivered Earth contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working with a composer.Entitled 'Songs in Time of War', 'Shared Ground', 'The Traveller' and 'Seven...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874515640Author WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint University Press of New EnglandPublisher University Press of New England

Seasons of Sacred Lust is Kazuko Shiraishi's challenge to the conventions of Japanese erotic poetry. Born in Vancouver, Canada, Shiraishi was taken to Japan by her family just prior to World War II, and her first poetry (written at age seventeen,...

This 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...