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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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953736178Author Christina SngFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Interstellar Flight PressPublisher Interstellar Flight PressWeight(grams)...

Crevasse, Hong Kong-based writer Nicholas Wong's newest collection of poetry, which won the 2016 Lamda Literary Award, starts with an epigraph from Maurice Merleau-Ponty that notes the impossibility of observing one's own physical body and, therefore,...

Ryokan (1758-1831) was a poet, master calligrapher, Zen hermit, and is one of the most beloved poets of Japan. Instead of becoming the head of a Zen temple, he preferred the simple and independent life of a hermit. Ryokan's poetry is simple, direct, and...

'The Courtesans Reply' is a long poem sequence in the voices of Indian courtesans - women famed for their skills in music, dancing, storytelling and the art of love. Playing on historical findings, and drawing inspiration from the monologue plays of the...

Before and since his enforced exile, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets in China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many languages. "Lee...

"John Stratton Hawley miraculously manages to braid the charged erotic and divine qualities of Krishna, the many-named god, while introducing us-with subtle occasional rhyme-to a vividly particularized world of prayers and crocodile earrings, spiritual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957071155Author Selected International PoetsFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Lost Tower PublicationsPublisher Lost Tower PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602352346Author Jeongrye ChoiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781881717911Author Andy DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Innerworld PublicationsPublisher Innerworld PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788170287919Author Kuldip SalilFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Rajpal & SonsPublisher Rajpal & Sons

In this stunningly inventive collection-a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in poetry-Ali excavates the devastation wrought upon his childhood home, Kashmir, and reveals a more personal devastation: his mother's death and the journey with her...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556591532Author Arthur SzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 170g

This 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,...

The End of the Dark Era is the first book of Mongolian poetry to be published in the United States, and one of the few avant-garde collections to have come from the vast steppes of Mongolia. Poet Tseveendorjin Oidov, who is also one of Mongolia's most...

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...

Apologies 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...

Before and since his enforced exile, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets in China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many languages. Yang Lian...

First English-language collection from a leading poet in South Korea.Kim Haengsook is one South Korea's most eminent contemporary poets, but a complete collection of her poems has never appeared in English before now. This selection draws on her work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957756820Author Mir Taqi MirFormat PaperbackPage Count 744Imprint Ghazal Sara Dot OrgPublisher Ghazal Sara Dot OrgWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904556497Author Mutsuo TakahashiFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785437922Author Abu'l-Ala Al-MaarriFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088085790Author Sabine Ruh HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857428882Author Salim BarakatFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Seagull BooksPublisher Seagull BooksWeight(grams) 159g

This vibrant collection presents 145 brief Bengali lyric poems dedicated to the Hindu goddesses Kali and Uma. These poems - many of which are presented here for the first time in English translation - were written from the early eighteenth century up to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684839349Author R. TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)Weight(grams) 169g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377346Author Lakdhas WikkramasinhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Stray Birds (1916) is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore. Translated into English by Tagore after he received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, Stray Birds is a powerful collection of short poems by a master of Indian literature. "Stray birds...

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 "A Moth Laid Its Eggs in My Armpit, and Then It Died " by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Small Press) 1997 and Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry) 1997 and Firecracker Alternative Book Award (Poetry) 1997 and Firecracker...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781422376911Author Archer TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

Where memory meets hope: a powerful collection from one of Vietnam's most important contemporary voices.In this stunning collection, international bestselling author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai turns her poetic lens to the lasting impacts of war, the strength of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913738129Author Sukrita PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Pippa Rann Books & MediaPublisher Salt Desert Media Group Ltd. (SDMG)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008939554Author Nhuan LeFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788170289043Author Kuldip SalilFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Rajpal & SonsPublisher Rajpal & Sons