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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...

The Tang dynasty (618 - 907 AD), is celebrated as the greatest moment in Chinese poetry, a time when poetry was highly rated, and some of China's most famous poets were writing. Du Fu (712-770 AD) is widely regarded as the greatest of these. He himself...

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)...

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 9780385093767Author Harold Gould HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557284884Author Muohammad Afaifai MaotarFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint University of Arkansas PressPublisher University of Arkansas...

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...

Sasha Dugdale's poems explore the mysterious solitudes of individual lives with tender, unsparing lucidity. The book opens with a sequence written at the Pushkin family estate. The great Russian poet, setting out to St Petersburg, turns back when a hare...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922181374Author Jake LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Vagabond PressPublisher Vagabond Press

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915760043Author Cat ChongFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Broken Sleep BooksPublisher Broken Sleep BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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 9781947879171Author Christina SngFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Raw Dog Screaming PressPublisher Raw Dog Screaming PressWeight(grams)...

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 9789390215638Author Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387164109Author Keki N DaruwallaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Speaking Tiger Publishing Private LimitedPublisher Speaking Tiger Publishing...

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

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788182534766Author Sanober KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Cyberwit.netPublisher Cyberwit.net

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989091220Author Stephen BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Millichap Books LLCPublisher Millichap Books LLCWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

In Boiled Owls, Azad Ashim Sharma delves into the kaleidoscopic terrain of cocaine addiction to explore the strain it puts on his speaker's interior, as well as family and those in close proximity. With frenetic language finely calibrated, sitting...

A debut English-language collection of hopeful and carefully attentive poems by one of South Korea's most lauded young poets.This collection offers a selection of poems from Sin Yong Mok's earlier collections, intended to serve as an illustration of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604595338Author Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint A & D PublishingPublisher A & D PublishingWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...