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The Slaying of Meghanada : A Ramayana from Colonial Bengal
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Hardcover - $129.95
"The poem is rising into splendid popularity. Some say it is better than Milton-but that is all bosh-nothing can be better than Milton; many say it licks Kalidasa; I have no objection to that. I don't think it impossible to equal Virgil, Kalidasa, an ...
The Rebel's Silhouette : Selected Poems
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Paperback - $27.95
Born in India and considered the leading poet on the South Asian subcontinent, Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) was a two-time Nobel nominee and winner of the 1962 Lenin Peace Prize. His evening readings in Hindi/Urdu-speaking regions drew thousands of li ...
The Mahabharata, Volume 7 : Book 11
James L. Fitzgerald
Hardcover - $168.95
What is found in this epic may be elsewhere;
What is not in this epic is nowhere else.
--from "The Mahabharata
The second longest poem in world literature, "The Mahabharata is an epic tale, replete with legends, romances, theology, and met ...
A New Hand
Jack Galmitz
Paperback - $21.95
Jack Galmitz's new collection of haiku has an appropriate title, A New Hand. All the works in it show the author's delightful wonder at sensing the world with a new hand called haiku. His spiritual urge sometimes calls for terms of transcendence, wor ...
Rise, Ye Sea Slugs!
Robin D. Gill
Paperback - $47.95
Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! is a book of many faces.
First, it is a book of translated haiku and contains over 900 of these short Japanese poems in the original (smoothly inserted in the main body),with phonetic and literal renditions, as well as the auth ...
Sea of Dreams : The Selected Writings of Gu Cheng
Cheng Gu
Paperback - $29.95
Gu Cheng (1956-1993) is one of China's most celebrated contemporary poets. His early death ended a literary career that was influenced by the Cultural Revolution and that reawakened the lyricism of Chinese poets during the 1980s. Offering a unique bl ...
Call Me by My True Names : The Collected Poems
Thich Nhat Hanh
Paperback - $27.95
This definitive collection includes more than 100 poems composed over the last forty years. Thich Nhat Hanh's clarity shines forth in "Call Me by My True Names," transforming the pain and difficulty of war and exile into a celebration of awareness an ...
The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan
Meng Hao-Jan
Paperback - $24.95
Meng Hao-jan (689-"740 C.E.) is generally considered to be one of China's most important poets, but there has never been an edition of his work in English. Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism was coming to maturity and becoming widely practiced among the intelligen ...