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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556593307Author Qingping WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 510g

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

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390215638Author Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

A 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615956800Author Jeannine Hall GaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Two Sylvias PressPublisher Two Sylvias PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385093767Author Harold Gould HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Basho (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...

The 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 poems of Yang Wan-Li (1127-1206), esteemed as one of the masters of Southern Sung poetry, reflect the magnificent landscape paintings of Sung China. His work is full of humanity and a zest for living, expressed in direct, unadorned language.Ads in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957240121Author Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Warbler ClassicsPublisher Warbler ClassicsWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

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...

The 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,...

A 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...

In a culture where poetry is considered the highest form of human language, Gendun Chopel is revered as Tibet's greatest modern poet. Born in 1903 as British troops were preparing to invade his homeland, he was identified at any early age as the...

"Where I Live" combines Arundhathi Subramaniam's first two Indian collections of poetry, "On Cleaning Bookshelves" and "Where I Live", with a selection of new work. Her poems explore various ambivalences - around human intimacy with its bottlenecks and...

'Bruce King maps uncharted territory,...provides ideas toward a poetics of Indian poetry in English, analyses poets in dialectical sets, summarizes poetic obsessions...King surveys, judges, informs, and provokes.' -- Peter Nazareth, World Literature...

"The road to Shu is hard, but harder still is to convey the spirit with which these poems were first written over a thousand years ago. And yet the translators have given us translations that feel alive, as if they were more like a dance between poet and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807063873Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 140mm * 8mm

In Beautiful and Useless, Kim Min Jeong exposes the often funny and contradictory rifts that appear in the language of everyday circumstance. She uses slang, puns, cultural referents, and 'naughty, unwomanly" language in order to challenge readers to...

Bhaskar Chakrabarti's poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta. His trenchant poetic voice was one of the most significant to emerge in the 1960s and '70s perhaps the most prolific period of modern Bengali poetry. Spanning...

Classical Sanskrit literature boasts an exquisite canon of poetry devoted to erotic love. In Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit, noted translator and scholar R. Parthasarathy curates a selection in a new verse translation that introduces readers to Sanskrit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861714896Author Francisca ChoFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645356397Author Alvin PangFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Recent Work PressPublisher Recent Work PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

These are poems of wonder and precarious elation, about learning to embrace the seemingly disparate landscapes of hermitage and court, the seemingly diverse addresses of mystery and clarity, disruption and stillness - all the roadblocks and rewards on...

These are poems of wonder and precarious elation, about learning to embrace the seemingly disparate landscapes of hermitage and court, the seemingly diverse addresses of mystery and clarity, disruption and stillness - all the roadblocks and rewards on...

Yam 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789395400428Author Razi AbuzarFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint EphbooksPublisher EphbooksWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

Apologies 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...

The poems of Arundhathi Subramaniam's Love Without a Story celebrate an expanding kinship: of passion and friendship, mythic quest and modern-day longing, in a world animated by dialogue and dissent, delirium and silence. Circling themes of intimacy and...

The seventeenth-century Hindi classic treasured for its subtle and beautiful portrayal of divine and erotic love's pleasures and sorrows.In his Satsai, or Seven Hundred Poems, the seventeenth-century poet Biharilal draws on a rich vernacular tradition,...

The 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...

in the mirror there is always this moment this moment leads to the door of rebirth the door opens to the sea the rose of time -Bei Dao The Rose of Time: New & Selected Poems presents a glowing selection of poetry by contemporary China's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420942965Author Li PoFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Poems by Nguyen Phan Que Mai Translated from the Vietnamese by Bruce Weigl and Nguyen Phan Que Mai Nguyen Phan Que Mai is among the most exciting writers to emerge from post-war Vietnam. Bruce Weigl, driven by his personal experiences as a soldier...

A canonical great poem, or mahakavya, of the Sanskrit canon, depicting a well-known episode from the Mahabharata.Magha's The Killing of Shishupala, written in the seventh century, is a celebrated example of the Sanskrit genre known as mahakavya, or great...