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Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi
ISBN: 9781570625220 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These selections from Rumi's Mathnawi - a classic of Sufi spiritual literature - express the -lion's roar- of courage, discipline, clarity, and integrity. The lion represents the fierce intensity that recognizes no authority except the highest truth. At the same time, Rumi's lion is full of heart and devotion. Through these poems the reader will explore the qualities that are vital to the spiritual aspirant who seeks to overcome the imprisonment of ego.
These selections from Rumi's Mathnawi - a classic of Sufi spiritual literature - express the -lion's roar- of courage, discipline, clarity, and...
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This Longing: Poetry, Teaching Stories, and Letters of Rumi
ISBN: 9781570625336 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Rumi collection features selections from one of the world's great spiritual masterpieces, the Mathnawi. The Mathnawi consists of six volumes of poetry in rhyme-over fifty-one thousand verses-inspired by folklore, the Qur'an, stories of saints and teachers, and sayings of Muhammed. Rendered by Rumi's premier English translators, these excerpts from the Mathnawi are presented in American free-verse style.
This Rumi collection features selections from one of the world's great spiritual masterpieces, the Mathnawi. The Mathnawi consists of six volumes of p...
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77,79 zł |
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Songs of Kabir
ISBN: 9781604594591 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The poet Kabir is one of the most interesting personalities in the history of Indian mysticism. A great religious reformer, the founder of a sect to which nearly a million northern Hindus still belong, it is yet supremely as a mystical poet that Kabir lives for us. A beautiful legend tells us that after his death his Mohammedan and Hindu disciples disputed the possession of his body; which the Mohammedans wished to bury, the Hindus to burn. As they argued together, Kabir appeared before them, and told them to lift the shroud and look at that which lay beneath. They did so, and found in the...
The poet Kabir is one of the most interesting personalities in the history of Indian mysticism. A great religious reformer, the founder of a sect to w...
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60,01 zł |
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With an Iron Pen: Twenty Years of Hebrew Protest Poetry
ISBN: 9781438426488 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The eighty-eight poems in With an Iron Pen, all originally written in Hebrew, offer a collective protest to the continuing Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Palestinian territories--"the sin of Judah," which is written "with an iron pen, engraved with the point of a diamond on the tablet of their hearts" (Jeremiah 17:1). Including such preeminent voices as Yehuda Amichai, Aharon Shabtai, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Meir Wieseltier, and Natan Zach, the forty-two poets in this groundbreaking anthology represent the full range of contemporary Hebrew poetry. Together, they turn an unforgiving gaze...
The eighty-eight poems in With an Iron Pen, all originally written in Hebrew, offer a collective protest to the continuing Israeli occupation of the W...
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66,90 zł |
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The Magic Ring And Other Oriental Fairy Tales (1861)
ISBN: 9780548694510 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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142,32 zł |
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Israeli Poetry: A Contemporary Anthology
ISBN: 9780253203564 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The best of contemporary Israeli poetry is presented here in exciting new English translations. Poets included in the anthology are Amir Gilboa, Abba Kovner, Haim Gouri, Yehuda Amichai, Dan Pagis, Natan Zach, David Avidan, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Ory Bernstein, Meir Wieseltier, and Yona Wallach. The best of contemporary Israeli poetry is presented here in exciting new English translations. Poets included in the anthology are Amir Gilboa, Ab... |
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87,28 zł |
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If I Were Another: Poems
ISBN: 9780374532475 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Translation Mahmoud Darwish was that rare literary phenomenon: a poet both acclaimed by critics as one of the most important poets in the Arab world and beloved by his readers. His language--lyrical and tender--helped to transform modern Arabic poetry into a living metaphor for the universal experiences of exile, loss, and identity. The poems in this collection, constructed from the cadence and imagery of the Palestinian struggle, shift between the most intimate individual experience and the burdens of history and collective... Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Translation Mahmoud Darwish was that rare literary phenomenon: a poet both acclaimed by critics as o... |
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94,43 zł |
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Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition
ISBN: 9780415595919 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the late 1940's, Arabic poetry has spoken for an Arab conscience, as much as it has debated positions and ideologies, nationally and worldwide. This book tackles issues of modernity and tradition in Arabic poetry as manifested in poetic texts and criticism by poets and participants in transformation and change.
Since the late 1940's, Arabic poetry has spoken for an Arab conscience, as much as it has debated positions and ideologies, nationally and worldwide. ...
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225,98 zł |
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Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers
ISBN: 9781604442755 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The smiling Garden of Persian Literature" a Garden which I would describe, in the Eastern style, as a happy spot, where lavish Nature with profusion strews the most fragrant and blooming flowers, where the most delicious fruits abound, which is ever vocal with the plaintive melancholy of the nightingale, who, during day and night, "tunes her love-laboured song" ... where the voice of Wisdom is often heard uttering her moral sentence, or delivering the dictates of experience.-Sir W. Ouseley.
"The smiling Garden of Persian Literature" a Garden which I would describe, in the Eastern style, as a happy spot, where lavish Nature with profusion ...
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81,63 zł |
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Into Solidity
ISBN: 9780955502415 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second book of poems by the Afghan author and artist Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq, featuring a foreword from prominent Rumi translator Raficq Abdulla, MBE. Filled with simple profound metaphor poems, and some astounding (and shocking) prose pieces, 'Into Solidity' deals with, "an icy estrangement and detachment from this world, leading to the dissolution of the morale- and its subsequent attempts at reformation," and is described right at the outset as being suitable for those considering suicide. True to its promise, it is heavy-going at times, however the emotional journey of vivid and rhythmic...
The second book of poems by the Afghan author and artist Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq, featuring a foreword from prominent Rumi translator Raficq Abdulla, MBE...
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80,73 zł |
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Complete Works - Volume V - Studies and Travels
ISBN: 9789186131418 / Perski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in Farsi language by the Sadegh Hedayat Foundation" and the renowned Iranian Burnt Books Foundation," this is the third volume of the revised and according to original manuscripts comparatively updated complete works of Sadegh Hedayat, the renowned Iranian novelist. This volume contains his studies on vegetarism (favaede giahxari), animal protection (ensan a heyvan), essays on literature and music as well as the Rubaiyat and Dobeyti of Khayam in Farsi language. Sadegh Hedayat was born on 17 February 1903 in Tehran, at his father's house. His father was Hedayat Gholi Khan-e Hedayat...
Published in Farsi language by the Sadegh Hedayat Foundation" and the renowned Iranian Burnt Books Foundation," this is the third volume of the revise...
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152,78 zł |
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Spilling Kingdoms
ISBN: 9780955502446 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a foreword from mathematics genius and Music professor Ernest G. McClain, Spilling Kingdoms finds Misdaq the poet in full 'Englishman-in-America' mode, making for a journey both humorous and touching. Tinged with more than a little spiritual-searching, this fourth part is the deepest and most well-rounded of the series thus far, featuring poems that are at times fresh, fleeting and impressionistic, and at other times, heavy with a thundering and solid intent. What's it all about? Looking at a world from the eyes of a journeying traveler, realizing how alien you are to it, and yet,...
With a foreword from mathematics genius and Music professor Ernest G. McClain, Spilling Kingdoms finds Misdaq the poet in full 'Englishman-in-America'...
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69,52 zł |
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The Jaysh Al-Tawshīḥ Of Lisān Al-Dīn Ibn Al-Khaṭīb: An Anthology of Andalusian Arabic Muwashshahat
ISBN: 9780906094426 / Arabski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Jaysh al-tawshih is second only to the Uddat al- Jalis of Ibn Bishri (published in this series in 1992) as a source of Andalusian Arabic muwashshahat. It contains 182 poems, of which 111 survive only in it, and includes 16 muwashshahat with 'Romance kharjas'. This edition contains the Arabic text.
The Jaysh al-tawshih is second only to the Uddat al- Jalis of Ibn Bishri (published in this series in 1992) as a source of Andalusian Arabic muwashsha...
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462,35 zł |
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Meşāʽir Üş-şuʽarā Or Tezkere of ʽĀşık Çelebi
ISBN: 9780718902001 / Angielski / Twarda / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Completed in AH 976/AD 1568-9, the Mesa'ir us-Su'ara' is Asik Celebi's major work. It is a biographical dictionary of Ottoman poets arranged by alphabetical order of names. The author, who died in 1572, was himself a poet, and like most of the literary men of the period, belonged to the religious class. For much of his life he was Qadi, or Judge, of various provincial towns. His book begins with a general introduction followed by individual notices on several hundred Ottoman poets. Without attempting to be an anthology, it gives specimens of their work and passes critical judgements but it is...
Completed in AH 976/AD 1568-9, the Mesa'ir us-Su'ara' is Asik Celebi's major work. It is a biographical dictionary of Ottoman poets arranged by alphab...
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642,14 zł |
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The Diwans of 'Abid Ibn Al-Abras of Asad and 'Amir Ibn At-Tufail of 'Amir Ibn Sa'sa'ah
ISBN: 9780906094136 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poems of Abid and Amir are found in other works but the 11th-century MS in the British Library on which this edition is based is unique. Both are tribal poets of the Jahiliyyah, the period before Islam. Abid ibn al-Abras, regarded as some of the best pre-Islamic poets, was contemporary with the greatest of them all, Imru' al-Qais of Kindah, and his poems reflect the events of the first half of the 6th century, such as the attempt and ultimate failure of the Princes of Kindah to impose their hegemony on the nomads of northern Arabia, among them Abid's tribe, the Bani Asad, who slew Imru al...
Poems of Abid and Amir are found in other works but the 11th-century MS in the British Library on which this edition is based is unique. Both are trib...
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488,03 zł |
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Kitab Al-Tashbihat of Ibn ABI 'Aun: The Book of Similes
ISBN: 9780718902193 / Angielski / Twarda / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author came from a family of secretaries, poets and men of letters resident in Iraq and involved in the service of the Abbasid Caliphate at Baghdad in the 9th and 10th centuries. He himself was hanged for heresy in AD934. His Book of Similes, however, is not a controversial work: it is a compilation of similes used by Arabic poets, arranged partly by topic and partly by author. It is the only work of the kind from its period and with its interest in originality and creative imagination, contributed something new to the development of Arab literacy criticism.
The author came from a family of secretaries, poets and men of letters resident in Iraq and involved in the service of the Abbasid Caliphate at Baghda...
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205,49 zł |
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Arabic Love Poetry from the Desert: Majnun Leyla, Arabic Text, Commentary and Translations
ISBN: 9789197895477 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The main body of the present book is a presentation of 62 Arabic poems in the original from the 7th century of the work of Qays b. al-Mulawwah (d. 688), also known as Majnun Leyla "the one who was mad about Leyla." Each Arabic poem has an English translation on the facing page. The English text has footnotes referring to comments that are placed at the end of the work. The poems tell the story of Qays' love to his cousin, Leyla bint Mahd y (d. 688), better known as Leyla al-Amir ya, and provide insights into themes that were prevalent in the ashar al-ghazal al-udhr "platonic or virginal love...
The main body of the present book is a presentation of 62 Arabic poems in the original from the 7th century of the work of Qays b. al-Mulawwah (d. 688...
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59,12 zł |
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Persian Text of the Poems in: Faces of Love, Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz
ISBN: 9781933823539 / Perski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Persian Text of the Poems in Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz, introduced and translated by Dick Davis
Persian Text of the Poems in Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz, introduced and translated by Dick Davis
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137,95 zł |
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So That the Poem Remains: Arabic Poems by Lebanese-American Youssef Abdul Samad, Selected and Translated by Ghada Alatrash
ISBN: 9781897435816 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. SO THAT THE POEM REMAINS is published by Agio Publishing House in cooperation with the New Pen League. "Youssef Abdul Samad's poetry is animated by extravagant lyricism that is both intense and disarming. His poetry delves deep into the human condition, the mundane, sublime, and political; all with precision and pleasing detail. Life's issues are couched in an elegant and eloquent style that is simultaneously profound and accessible. Ghada Alatrash's translation is informed and compassionate. It is a faithful, elegant, and poetic interpretation of Samad's soaring emotions and... SO THAT THE POEM REMAINS is published by Agio Publishing House in cooperation with the New Pen League. "Youssef Abdul Samad's poetry is animate... |
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80,47 zł |
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Songs from Under the River: A Poetry Collection of Early and New Work
ISBN: 9781938912245 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After six years of touring the country, Anis has combed through out-of-print editions to put together a best-of collection for his third Write Bloody release. Popular poems (Some with over 200,000 "Likes" on YouTube) such as "Direct Orders," "Shake the Dust," "Here Am I" and more, are collected here alongside lost poems, favorite poems and new unpublished works. The book showcases what audiences have come to expect from Anis-uplifting words, playful surrealism, and the journey through imagination. Songs From Under the River allows fans and new readers alike the chance to follow the trajectory...
After six years of touring the country, Anis has combed through out-of-print editions to put together a best-of collection for his third Write Bloody ...
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69,79 zł |