Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Asian - General

tastes of iron and Titan's spire.

Green blood is sweet and bitter

honey mingled with metal and salt.

But cool and limpid is the blood of my love,

sapphire-blue, as fragrant as violets beneath the silver Moon-

I bit your lip and tasted stars.

Together, celticscribe and willowdown have penned a collection of verse melding the everyday with the otherworldly. A Spell Too Far invites readers to glimpse the wisps of dreams and to peer into the haunts of nightmares. Whether told from the eyes of a child or that of the ancients, the poems bound here...

"Wei Ying-Wu was undoubtedly one of the great T'ang poets, yet his work is much less well known in the West than that of Li Po, Tu Fu, and Po Chu-i. Now Red Pine (the lovely pen name that the American poet and Chinese scholar Bill Porter assumes for his translation work) celebrates Wei's life and achievement in a big new anthology, "In Such Hard Times."..Reading him is like listening to Mozart, there's something healing about the calm profundity with which he spins pain and disaster.""Los Angeles Times"

Translator] Red Pine s out-of-the-mainstream work is uncanny and clearheaded....

The Life of Harishchandra, Raghavanka's thirteenth-century masterpiece, is the first poetic rendering of one of ancient India's most enduring legends. When his commitment to truth is tested by a powerful sage, King Harishchandra suffers utter deprivation--the loss of his wife and son, his citizens and power, and, dearest of all, his caste status--but refuses to yield. The tale has influenced poets and readers through the ages. Mahatma Gandhi traced his own commitment to truth to the impact of a Harishchandra play seen in childhood.

A poet from northern Karnataka trained in the...

In a culture where poetry is considered the highest form of human language, Gendun Chopel is revered as Tibet s greatest modern poet. Born in 1903 as British troops were preparing to invade his homeland, Gendun Chopel was identified at any early age as the incarnation of a famous lama and became a Buddhist monk, excelling in the debating courtyards of the great monasteries of Tibet. At the age of thirty-one, he gave up his monk s vows and set off for India, where he would wander, often alone and impoverished, for over a decade. Returning to Tibet, he was arrested by the government of the...