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Mirabai
Beacon Press 2004; US$ 12.00Mirabai is a literary and spiritual figure of legendary proportions. Born a princess in the region of Rajasthan in 1498, Mira (as she is more commonly known) eschewed the marriage her royal family had arranged for her, celebrating instead her right to independence and intense devotion to Krishna in both her life and poetry. In this collection, Robert... more...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
Penguin Books Ltd 2009; Not AvailablePoetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clichés of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic collection of verse therefore contains poetry from... more...
Miyazawa Kenji
University of California Press 2007; US$ 24.95The poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) was an early twentieth-century Japanese modernist who today is known worldwide for his poetry and stories as well as his devotion to Buddhism. Miyazawa Kenji: Selections collects a wide range of his poetry and provides an excellent introduction to his life and work. Miyazawa was a teacher of agriculture by profession... more...
Gitanjali
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableDescribed by Rabindranath Tagore as ?revelations of my true self?, the poems and songs of Gitanjali established the writer?s literary talent worldwide. They include eloquent sonnets such as the famous ?Where the mind is without fear?, intense explorations of love, faith and nature (?Light, oh where is the light??) and tender evocations of childhood... more...
In the Bazaar of Love
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableAmir Khusrau?poet, courtier, mystic, musician?straddled the worlds of politics and religion and helped forge a distinctive synthesis of Muslim and Hindu cultures. His poetry in Persian appealed equally to the Delhi sultans and to his Sufi sheikh, Nizamuddin Auliya. It was appreciated not only in India, where his Hindavi poetry has survived through... more...
The Rapids of a Great River
Penguin Books Ltd 2009; Not AvailableThe Rapids of a Great River begins with selections from the earliest known Tamil poetry dating from the second century CE. The writings of the Sangam period laid the foundation for the Tamil poetic tradition, and they continue to underlie and inform the works of Tamil poets even today. The first part of this anthology traverses the Sangam and bhakti... more...
Selected Poems
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableAcclaimed by Forster and Pound, for Yeast the poet whose poetry ?stirred my blood as nothing has for years? Tagore was and remains India?s greatest writer this century. Prolific and innovatory as poet, novelist, dramatist, musician and painter, he was also a leading figure in the Nationalist movement, an intimate of Gandhi, a vastly influential educationalist... more...
Leaving Yuba City
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 13.95Like Divakaruni's much-loved and bestselling short story collection Arranged Marriage, this collection of poetry deals with India and the Indian experience in America, from the adventures of going to a convent school in India run by Irish nuns (Growing up in Darjeeling) to the history of the earliest Indian immigrants in the U.S. (Yuba City Poems).... more...
Handwriting
Random House 2011; US$ 13.35The poems in Handwriting are memories of Sri Lanka: the rituals and traditions, history and geography, the smells and tastes and colours of his first home. Here are sunless forests, cattle-bells, stilt-walkers 'with the movement of prehistoric birds'; a Buddha buried 'so roots/like fingers of a blind monk/spread for two hundred years over his face';... more...
Kyoto-Dwelling: Poems
Tuttle Publishing 1989; US$ 9.99Edith Shiffert , called by Poetry Nippon 'one of Kyoto's living national-and international-treasures,' here writes brief poems in the form of traditional Japanese haiku for each month of the year. Taken as a whole, the poems describe an American woman's twenty five-year sojourn in Kyoto. Although living amid continuous change, the poet has chosen... more...









