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Ikkyu: Crow With No Mouth
Copper Canyon Press 2013; US$ 12.99New edition of best-selling Asian title presents the poems of a renowned Zen master. more...
In Such Hard Times
Copper Canyon Press 2012; US$ 12.99The world's first substantial selection of English translations of this great T'ang Dynasty poet. more...
Awesome Nightfall
Wisdom Publications 2012; US$ 15.95Awesome Nightfall captures the power of Saigyo's poetry and this previously overlooked poet's keen insight into the social and political world of medieval Japan. It also offers a fascinating look into the world of Japanese Buddhism prior to the wholesale influence of Zen. LaFleur's much-heralded translation and commentary make this book ideal both... more...
Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea
Wisdom Publications 2012; US$ 16.95Revered by many as the very embodiment of altruism, the late Khunu Rinpoche devoted his life to the development of bodhicitta ?the aspiration to achieve enlightenment for the sake of all living beings. Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea is a collection of Khunu Rinpoche's inspirational verse?presented here in both English and the original Tibetan.... more...
Pure Lizard
Carcanet 2012; US$ 14.51Born in India, her mother tongue Gujurati, educated in America and now living in Germany, Sujata Bhatt in her writing bridges continents, languages and identities. In Pure Lizard she further explores the dislocations and transformations first encountered in her acclaimed first collection Brunizem (1988). A being with 'pure lizard' skin appears as... more...
Mapping the Nation
Anthem Press 2012; US$ 130.00Focusing specifically on the poetic construction of India, Mapping the Nation offers a broad selection of poetry written by Indians in English during the period 18701920. more...
Daughters of Emptiness
Wisdom Publications 2012; US$ 16.95Beata Grant renders a great service by recovering and translating the enchanting verse ? by turns assertive, observant, devout ? of forty-eight nuns from sixteen centuries of imperial China. This selection of poems, along with brief biographical accounts that accompany them, affords readers a glimpse into the extraordinary diversity and sometimes... more...
City at the End of Time ????
Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2012; US$ 50.00Written by Leung Ping-kwan in the 1980s and 1990s, this volume of poetry evokes the complexity of Hong Kong city life in the critical moments preceding the 1997 handover. The poet muses upon the problems of cultural identity and the passing of time, and explores the relationship between poetry and other genres and media within a cross-cultural and... more...
How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 24.99Designed to work with the acclaimed course text How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology, the How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook introduces classical Chinese to advanced beginners and learners at higher levels, teaching them how to appreciate Chinese poetry in its original form. Also a remarkable stand-alone resource, the volume illuminates... more...
Gender, Sex, and the City
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 95.00Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by afemale speaker and a focus on women's lives,and shows how it becamea catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal. more...









