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Almost Paradise-New and Selected Poems and Translations
ISBN: 9781590301845 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sam Hamill is that rare figure whose life is continually in dialogue with the rich and diverse tradition of poetry, whether that dialogue takes the form of translating the work of a poet long dead, writing a poem in celebration of the work of a contemporary poet, or musing on what it means to be a poet himself. A true poet's poet and also the founding editor of Copper Canyon Press, one of the most influential publishers of poetry today Hamill has been part of America's poetry scene for decades and has won numerous prizes and awards for his work. This collection presents the best of Hamill's...
Sam Hamill is that rare figure whose life is continually in dialogue with the rich and diverse tradition of poetry, whether that dialogue takes the fo...
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Six Vietnamese Poets
ISBN: 9781880684764 / Wietnamski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Six Vietnamese Poets brings together for the first time the works of six writers, three women and three men, who came of age during the American War in Vietnam. In their verse, contemporary readers discover the richness and diversity of Vietnamese life and literature from a bold range poetic styles from free verse to romantic lyric to traditional classic Vietnamese forms. This bilingual edition features poets from North and South, men and women, combat soldiers and poet-soldiers writing of life in Vietnam through the turbulent final four decades of the twentieth century.
Speaking... Six Vietnamese Poets brings together for the first time the works of six writers, three women and three men, who came of age during the America...
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Take a Deep Breath
ISBN: 9781933993072 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In today's fast-paced world, this text can help readers learn to slow down and take stock, relax, find focus on the present moment, and find poetry and depth in their lives.
In today's fast-paced world, this text can help readers learn to slow down and take stock, relax, find focus on the present moment, and find poetry an...
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Poemas
ISBN: 9788496428768 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jose Rizal fue el padre de la independencia de Filipinas. Su obra poetica tiene un marcado interes en el mejoramiento humano y en la reflexion politica. Confinado en Fuerte Santiago, en Manila, Rizal escribio al termino de su vida el poema Mi ultimo adios. Se trata de un texto que sobrecoge por su entereza y la sensacion que transmite el autor de que un destino intimo y transcendental por igual lo rige en la hora de la muerte."
Jose Rizal fue el padre de la independencia de Filipinas. Su obra poetica tiene un marcado interes en el mejoramiento humano y en la reflexion politic...
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A Merry Senhor in the Malay World (2 Vols): Four Texts of the Syair Sinyor Kosta
ISBN: 9789067182164 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Around a century ago a Malay poem which tells of a foreigner, always indicated as Sinyor, in Southeast Asia who elopes with Lela Mayang, the wife of a wealthy Chinaman. The latter sets out in pursuit of the couple and engages in a naval battle with the Sinyor in an attempt to get his wife back. The Syair Sinyor Kosta, as the poem is known, presents us with fascinating pictures and glimpses of Malay society, in this case a nineteenth-century society in transition. It reflects changing literary tastes, a pluriform society and the beginning modernization of Malay culture. In its...
Around a century ago a Malay poem which tells of a foreigner, always indicated as Sinyor, in Southeast Asia who elopes with Lela Mayang, the wife of a...
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Octopussy, Dry Kidney & Blue Spots - Dirty Themes from 18-19c Japanese Poems
ISBN: 9780974261850 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 17-syllabet Japanese poems about human foibles, sans season (i.e., not haiku), were introduced a half-century ago by RH Blyth in two books, "Edo Satirical Verse Anthologies" and "Japanese Life and Character in Senryu." Blyth regretted having to introduce not the best senryu, but only the best that were clean enough to pass the censors. In this anthology, compiled, translated and essayed by Robin D. Gill, like Blyth, a renowned translator of thousands of haiku, we find 1,300 of the senryu (and zappai) that would once have been dangerous to publish. The book is not just an anthology of dirty...
17-syllabet Japanese poems about human foibles, sans season (i.e., not haiku), were introduced a half-century ago by RH Blyth in two books, "Edo Satir...
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The Woman Without a Hole - & Other Risky Themes from Old Japanese Poems
ISBN: 9780974261881 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 17-syllabet Japanese poems about human foibles, sans season (i.e., not haiku), were introduced a half-century ago by RH Blyth in two books, "Edo Satirical Verse Anthologies" and "Japanese Life and Character in Senryu." Blyth regretted having to introduce not the best senryu, but only the best that were clean enough to pass the censors. In this anthology, compiled, translated and essayed by Robin D. Gill, like Blyth, a renowned translator of thousands of haiku, we find 1,300 of the senryu (and zappai) that would once have been dangerous to publish. The book is not just an anthology of dirty...
17-syllabet Japanese poems about human foibles, sans season (i.e., not haiku), were introduced a half-century ago by RH Blyth in two books, "Edo Satir...
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Sweetness of Salt
ISBN: 9781891386909 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The affirmative resurgence of the self through Indian English poetry is best exemplified here.-- A.J. Thomas, assistant editor of "Indian Literature."
The affirmative resurgence of the self through Indian English poetry is best exemplified here.-- A.J. Thomas, assistant editor of "Indian Literature."
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Sugata Saurabha: An Epic Poem from Nepal on the Life of the Buddha
ISBN: 9780674027121 / Angielski / Twarda / 847 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This poem belongs of the little-known Newari (Nepal Bhasha) language and literature, specifically to its even less known Buddhist version. It is one of the very rare cases that works in Newari language appear outside Nepal. In nineteen long cantos, the "Sugata Saurabha" tells of the life of the Buddha, following the traditional accounts, but situates it in the strongly local context of Newar and Nepali Buddhism. It emulates the classical (Kavya) style of the long-standing Indian tradition, and has been inspired by the 2,000-year-old Sanskrit poem, the "Buddhacarita." Consequently, the... This poem belongs of the little-known Newari (Nepal Bhasha) language and literature, specifically to its even less known Buddhist version. It is o... |
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Six Poetry Formats and the Transforming Image: A Monograph on Free Verse
ISBN: 9789715425285 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Philippine Folk Literature: The Riddles constitutes Volume V of the author's eight-volume Philippine Folk Literature series. This work is intended to be a national collection of Philippine riddles--a putting together of available collections of riddles from all over the country, from Batanes to Jolo. The riddles are listed, according to solution, under nineteen subject categories and one Miscellaneous category. Within each group, the riddles are arranged alphabetically, according to answer, or solution, in English translation. For each entry, the riddle in English translation is given first....
Philippine Folk Literature: The Riddles constitutes Volume V of the author's eight-volume Philippine Folk Literature series. This work is intended to ...
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Grow Long, Blessed Night: Love Poems from Classical India
ISBN: 9780195127348 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like red earth and streaming rain,
our loving hearts merged all by themselves. Captured in these centuries-old verses are the intoxication of new love, the romance of courtship, and the longing of separated lovers. Here are the voices of older women advising their younger friends, the words of messengers conveying secrets between lovers, and the musings of lovers to themselves. Culled from large anthologies that date from as early as the first century CE to as late as the eighth, Martha Ann Selby's masterful translations allow the poems to stand on their own in English while... Like red earth and streaming rain,
our loving hearts merged all by themselves. Captured in these centuries-old verses are the intoxicatio... |
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Transcending the Illusion of Temporal Limitations
ISBN: 9780595466436 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a world that's left unseen.And the wavelenghths in between.
A spectrum, ROY G. BIV. But what else could there be? One million thousand colors... Are visible to me. Can you see them? Do you look? Or are you too blind to perceive? It's time you started listening, And starting to believe. Look upon the legend. A flower is a signal. The sun is just a battery, And we are the original. Through a world that's left unseen.And the wavelenghths in between.
A spectrum, ROY G. BIV. But what else could there be? One million thousan... |
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The Ramazan Libation
ISBN: 9781900072106 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Thy Will: A Spiritual Journey
ISBN: 9780595484287 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much inspired by human sensitivity, Poet's inner-self bemoans the distress of destitute, downtrodden, crippled and the poorest of poor on the Earth. He derives supreme joy in giving them succor and selfless service. He believes "nothing so important to man as man." With this mindset, he laid his hands on English poetry composition from his boyhood days. The poet deeply feels and believes, if human soul is rekindled even by a dim ray of divine flame, the noble human qualities are easy to surface. Through his poems, pregnant with sublime ideas, he has chosen to touch the hearts of his readers....
Much inspired by human sensitivity, Poet's inner-self bemoans the distress of destitute, downtrodden, crippled and the poorest of poor on the Earth. H...
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42,20 |
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Parnaso Filipino: Antologia de Poetas del Archipielago Magallanico
ISBN: 9788498168914 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 596 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved
ISBN: 9781585426935 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Landmark translations of the Sufi poet/mystic Rumi from the acclaimed interpreter of the Tao Te Ching.
Jonathan Star has assembled selections of Rumi's verse in a treasury that spans the poet's life and includes his most celebrated and poignant work. It is an enchanting volume of classic Eastern thought that creates an exhilarating experience for all readers. Landmark translations of the Sufi poet/mystic Rumi from the acclaimed interpreter of the Tao Te Ching.
Jonathan Star has assembled ... |
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Cherry Blossom Suite: American Haiku
ISBN: 9781434384003 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Advance Praise for "Cherry Blossom Suite, American Haiku" Cherry Blossom Suite, a collection of American haiku, has been described as "breathtaking," "a dance of the senses" and "impressive." A professor of Japanese literature and hermeneutics wrote, "I think you have caught Kyoto and the other Japanese cities t the very moment when the flower blooms and scatters." The collection has been praised by a composer for its kaleidoscopic imagery and quality of thought, deserving to be treasured and celebrated. The three-line form poems both borrow, and depart from, a traditional and honored form of...
Advance Praise for "Cherry Blossom Suite, American Haiku" Cherry Blossom Suite, a collection of American haiku, has been described as "breathtaking," ...
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Voices in Revolution: Poetry and the Auditory Imagination in Modern China
ISBN: 9780824833657 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China's century of revolutionary change has been heard as much as seen, and nowhere is this more evident than in an auditory history of the modern Chinese poem. From Lu Xun's seminal writings on literature to a recitation renaissance in urban centers today, poetics meets politics in the sounding voice of poetry. Supported throughout by vivid narration and accessible analysis, Voices in Revolution offers a literary history of modern China that makes the case for the importance of the auditory dimension of poetry in national, revolutionary, and postsocialist culture. Crespi brings the... China's century of revolutionary change has been heard as much as seen, and nowhere is this more evident than in an auditory history of the modern ... |
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191,02 |
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The Bower of Nil: A Narrative Poem
ISBN: 9780967042145 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifteen years in the making, overturning the nihilism of Nietzsche, moving beyond Postmodernism, Peter Marsh, an academic philosopher, weighs modern life in a conversation with his friend, David Emerson, a businessman. Brought together after long separation by the brutal murder of Mary, Peter's wife, a time of devastating loss and crisis, their friendship inspires a dark night of the soul, during which Peter's meditations range over several hundred years of philosophy, politics, religion, social change, the dilemmas of existence, evoking a vision of the complexities of the 21st Century, the...
Fifteen years in the making, overturning the nihilism of Nietzsche, moving beyond Postmodernism, Peter Marsh, an academic philosopher, weighs modern l...
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Brocade River Poems: Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan
ISBN: 9780691014340 / Angielski / Miękka / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Xue Tao (A.D. 768-831) was well known as a poet in an age when all men of learning were poets--and almost all women were illiterate. As an entertainer and official government hostess, she met, and impressed, many of the most talented and powerful figures of her day. As a maker of beautiful paper and a Taoist churchwoman, she maintained a life of independence and aesthetic sensibility. As a writer, she crrated a body of work that is by turns deeply moving, amusing, and thought-provoking. Drawing knowledgeably on a rich literary tradition, she created images that here live again for the... Xue Tao (A.D. 768-831) was well known as a poet in an age when all men of learning were poets--and almost all women were illiterate. As an entertai... |
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