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This beautiful collection of love poems gathers together thousands of years of timeless verse from around the world. From Shakespeare to Rossetti, traditional English classics sit alongside the works of Eastern writers such as Ibn 'Arabi and Rumi, as...

Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again...

Darwish (1942-2008), recipient of France s Knight of Arts and Belles Lettres medal, the Lotus Prize, and the Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom, is widely considered Palestine s most eminent poet. State of Siege was written while the poet...

A Map of Absence presents the finest poetry and prose by Palestinian writers over the last seventy years. Featuring writers in the diaspora and those living under occupation, these striking entries pay testament to one of the most pivotal events in...

A reissue of this popular title with a fresh new paperback format, this collection of beautiful Persian love poetry is richly illustrated with images from the British Museum' s world-famous collection. Love is everywhere in Persian poetry and can be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916809970Author Edward SaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

Enjoy the unmatched beauty of the King James Version combined with the readability of Thomas Nelson's exclusive KJV Comfort Print (R) typeface, all in a Bible that includes over 73,000 cross references and the Apocrypha.In this edition, the literary...

Rumi: Unseen Poems - the second volume of Rumi in the Everyman Pocket Poet series - is a treasury of poems which have never been translated before, researched and translated by Rumi biographer Brad Gooch and the Iranian writer Maryam Mortaz.The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375335Author RumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976395010Author Mahmoud DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 197Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134930Author Garous AbdolmalekianFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The NKJV Single-Column Reference Bible presents the text of the beautiful and trustworthy New King James Version in a single, easy-to-read column. With full-color maps and a robust cross-reference system, this is a Bible designed for study--and it's the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596698Author Philip MetresFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949039191Author M Shahid AlamFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Orison BooksPublisher Orison BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 150mm * 8mm

The modern Urdu poets presented in this book offer a fascinating range of forms and styles as well as a complex commentary on the experience-personal, religious, cultural, political-of the issues and dilemmas of the twentieth century.Book InformationISBN...

Midnight and Other Poems is the first full-length poetry collection to be published in the UK by this remarkable Palestinian writer, previously known to English-language readers for his highly-acclaimed autobiography I Saw Ramallah (Bloomsbury, 2004)...

In the years since her tragic death in a car accident at age thirty-two in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad has become a poet as iconic and influential as Lorca or Akhmatova, celebrated as a pioneer of modernist Iranian literature and as a leading figure of...

What is political poetry and linguistic activism? What does it mean to bear witness through writing? When language proves insufficient, how do we find and articulate a pathway forward? Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. interrogates, subverts, and...

Finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in TranslationTranslated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789526541709Author Petri RautanenFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint P.T. RautanenPublisher P.T. RautanenWeight(grams) 372g

My verse resembles the bread of Egypt - night passes over it, and you cannot eat it any more. Devour it the moment it is fresh, before the dust settles upon it. Its place is the warm climate of the heart; in this world it dies of cold. Like a fish it...

The ecstatic love poems of Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi mystic born more than eight centuries ago, are beloved by millions of readers in America as well as around the world. Rumi has been compared to Shakespeare for his outpouring of creativity and St...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061138843Author Robert BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

'A brilliant and beautiful book which wrestles with the scope and ache of lineage, the origin and myth and making of ourselves' - Rachel Long, author of My Darling from the Lions 'Unlike almost anything I've read - so alive it seems to squirm to the...

Knife Sharpener - Selected Poems is a posthumous commemoration and celebration of Sargon Boulus, in a collection of poems, written between 1991 and 2007 that he translated himself, together with an essay, "Poetry and Memory", written a few months before...

Crafted to be an easy-to-carry large print Bible with cross references allowing this Bible to be an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642970463Author HafizFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692934555Author Waseem NabulsiFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Za'atar Publishing HousePublisher Za'atar Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...

'The greatest living poet of the Arab world' GuardianCloud, mirror, stone, thunder, eyelid, desert, sea. Through a dead or dying land, Mihyar walks: a figure of heroic individualism and dissent, part-Orpheus, part-Zarathustra. Where he goes, the austere...

Exciting to those unfamiliar with Rumi's verse as well as to the veteran scholar, this volume, following on from Love Is My Savior, offers more of the little-known Arabic poems of Mawlana Rumi. These poems take the reader on a journey of spiritual...

Ferdowsi's classic poem Shahnameh is part myth, part history-beginning with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation and its tumultuous history, it contains magical birds and superhuman heroes and centuries-long battles. Written over 1,000 years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645766622Author S HukrFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Fajr NoorPublisher Fajr NoorWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 12mm

From the Introduction by Mohammed Sawaie:The Palestinian poets included in The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems represent different age groups and backgrounds, yet they all express a strong sense of "Palestinian-ness". They include Israeli citizens,...

Khaja Shamsuddin Mohammad Hafez (1327-1390 C.E.) was born in Shiraz, a city in Southwest Iran where he lived his entire life. The elegance, beauty, and delicacy of his poetry have made him the most beloved poet of the Persian-speaking world. Hafez...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949641073Author Iman MersalFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Two Lines PressPublisher Two Lines PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 150mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734966107Author Hakim Abul-Ghassem FerdowsiFormat PaperbackPage Count 622Imprint Girouette BooksPublisher Girouette BooksWeight(grams) 898gDimensions(mm)...

A groundbreaking collection of poetry, personal narratives, and art from refugee youth around the world. Foreword by actor and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Ben Stiller.Beginning in 2018, Ahmed M. Badr-an Iraqi-American poet and former refugee-traveled to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535186Author Eliza GriswoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Jalaloddin Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi, or 'Spiritual Couplets', composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poetry in the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism. For centuries before his love poetry became a literary phenomenon in the West, Rumi's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595141Author Ghassan ZaqtanFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.