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Birds' Journey to Mount Qaf
ISBN: 9780863564437 / Angielski / Twarda / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the masterful twelfth-century Sufi poem "The Conference of the Birds," this enchanting poem is accompanied by original illustrations painted on ceramic tiles, typical of the medieval Persian style.
It was one night while soaring in the Chinese sky, Hooda Shawa Qaddumi teaches English as a... Based on the masterful twelfth-century Sufi poem "The Conference of the Birds," this enchanting poem is accompanied by original illustrations painted ...
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92,80 |
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An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry: In English Translation, with Urdu Text
ISBN: 9780873527972 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Currently spoken by almost 250 million people in Pakistan and India and the second most widely spoken language in Britain, Urdu has one of the richest literatures of all south Asian languages. The modern Urdu poets presented in this book offer a fascinating range of forms and styles that grew out of that tradition, as well as a complex commentary on the experience--personal, religious, cultural, political--of the issues and dilemmas of the twentieth century. In his introduction, M. A. R. Habib outlines the history of Urdu literature, identifies the major poets associated with the classical... Currently spoken by almost 250 million people in Pakistan and India and the second most widely spoken language in Britain, Urdu has one of the rich... |
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107,70 |
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Poems of Nazim Hikmet
ISBN: 9780892552740 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A centennial volume, with previously unavailable poems, by Turkey's greatest poet. Published in celebration of the poet's one hundredth birthday, this exciting edition of the poems of the Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963) collects work from his four previous selected volumes and adds more than twenty poems never before available in English. The Blasing/Konuk translations, acclaimed for the past quarter-century for their accuracy and grace, convey Hikmet's compassionate, accessible voice with the subtle music, innovative form, and emotional directness of the originals.
A centennial volume, with previously unavailable poems, by Turkey's greatest poet. Published in celebration of the poet's one hundredth birthday, this...
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82,44 |
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The Words under the Words: Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780933377295 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Words Under the Words gathers into a single volume the finest poems by one of the most exciting, accessible poets in America today. This long-awaited collection draws from Naomi Shihab Nye's three critically acclaimed books: Different Ways to Pray, Yellow Glove, and National Poetry Series winner, Hugging the Jukebox.
Words Under the Words gathers into a single volume the finest poems by one of the most exciting, accessible poets in America today. This long-a...
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61,47 |
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Gilgamesh
ISBN: 9781400077335 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his thrillingly contemporary retelling of the world's oldest epic, award-winning poet Derrek Hines brings us as close as we may ever come to re-creating the power it had over its original listeners more than four thousand years ago in the ancient Near East.
Gilgamesh, the semi-divine ruler of Uruk, is a larger-than-life bully and abuser of his people. In order to tame the arrogant king, the gods create the wild and handsome Enkidu. But after Enkidu and Gilgamesh become fast friends, they defy the gods in a series of outsized adventures that brings Gilgamesh face to face with both loss... In his thrillingly contemporary retelling of the world's oldest epic, award-winning poet Derrek Hines brings us as close as we may ever come to re-cre...
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53,95 |
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Questions and Their Retinue: Selected Poems of Hatif Janabi
ISBN: 9781557284310 / Angielski / Twarda / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Janabi's poems are passionate, jolting, apocolyptic, and painful. They deal with war, death, perception, and truth, drawing from his family life, his exile in Poland, violence in Iraq, and his experience in the United States.
Janabi's poems are passionate, jolting, apocolyptic, and painful. They deal with war, death, perception, and truth, drawing from his family life, his ...
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132,18 |
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Questions and Their Retinue: Selected Poems of Hatif Janabi
ISBN: 9781557284327 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Janabi's poems are passionate, jolting, apocolyptic, and painful. They deal with war, death, perception, and truth, drawing from his family life, his exile in Poland, violence in Iraq, and his experience in the United States.
Janabi's poems are passionate, jolting, apocolyptic, and painful. They deal with war, death, perception, and truth, drawing from his family life, his ...
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78,32 |
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Angry Voices: An Anthology of the Off-Beat New Egyptian Poets
ISBN: 9781557287434 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new movement is emerging in Egyptian literature--urban in its energies; cosmopolitan in its national, Arabic, and western influences; and independent and rowdy in its voice. For centuries, Arabic literature mandated traditional, unchanging, highly structured language and forms. In the 1960s and 1970s, writers rebelled to write in a variety of vernaculars. Now, young Egyptian poets are inventing new ways of writing. Rejecting both traditional Arabic formalism and the vernacular rebellion--and, contradictorily, drawing equally on these traditions and others--they radically combine and...
A new movement is emerging in Egyptian literature--urban in its energies; cosmopolitan in its national, Arabic, and western influences; and independen...
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88,11 |
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Jewels of Remembrance: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance Containing 365 Selections From the Wisdom of Rumi
ISBN: 9781590304815 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jalaluddin Rumi has become one of the most widely read poets in our time. This collection of verse is drawn from Rumi's masterwork the "Mathnawi, "often referred to as the "Qur'an" in the Persian tongue. The "Mathnawi "comprises six volumes of rhymed verse drawing on favorite stories from the "Qur'an, " tales of Sufi saints and masters, the sayings of Muhammed, folklore, and popular humor. Throughout its intricate tales, Rumi scatters precious gems of wisdom. Like jewels, his words seem to catch the light and reflect it to the reader's soul. The Helminskis' translations beautifully convey the...
Jalaluddin Rumi has become one of the most widely read poets in our time. This collection of verse is drawn from Rumi's masterwork the "Mathnawi, "oft...
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96,15 |
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Fuel
ISBN: 9781880238639 / Angielski / Miękka / 65 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of poems that find meaning in a world where we are so tired of meaning nothing, Fuel covers topics ranging from the border families of southern Texas to small ferns and forgotten books to Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East.
A collection of poems that find meaning in a world where we are so tired of meaning nothing, Fuel covers topics ranging from the border families of so...
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73,22 |
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On Ruins & Return
ISBN: 9781905700370 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poetry. ON RUINS & RETURN is Rachel Tzvia Back's second full-length collection and tracks the cycle of violence marking the lives of Palestinians and Israelis in the last intifadah (uprising).
"The past exists in layers of our present and perhaps nowhere more powerfully than in the place evoked in this beautiful and haunting collection of poems. Rachel Tzvia Back's passionate historical sense illuminates ways in which outer violence touches our deepest subconscious. From a complex of shared circumstances within the seemingly endless struggle between Israel and Palestine, she draws... Poetry. ON RUINS & RETURN is Rachel Tzvia Back's second full-length collection and tracks the cycle of violence marking the lives of Palestinians and ...
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77,07 |
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You and Yours
ISBN: 9781929918690 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary. Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighborhood, about rural schools and urban communities she's visited in this country, as well as the daily rituals of Jews and Palestinians who live in the war-torn Middle East. The Day I missed the day In You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic ... |
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73,22 |
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Hymns of the Valleys: Translated With an Introduction and Annotations by Naji B. Oueijan
ISBN: 9781931956208 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Hymns of the Valleys" is a translation of the first collection of free verseever compiled in Arabic.
"Hymns of the Valleys" is a translation of the first collection of free verseever compiled in Arabic.
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244,89 |
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The Seven Poems Suspended from the Temple at Mecca
ISBN: 9781931956802 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of seven pre-Islamic Arabic poems, the Mullaqat form the most celebrated forms of poetry, and "the place assigned to them by Arab literary men has not been without a certain overshadowing effect on western criticism in its turn.." A tool for students of Arabic literature, this book gives a literal translation of these poems with a commentary.
A collection of seven pre-Islamic Arabic poems, the Mullaqat form the most celebrated forms of poetry, and "the place assigned to them by Arab literar...
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276,05 |
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Un jardin mas alla del paraiso - Poemas de Amor de Rumi
ISBN: 9788460965091 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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87,22 |
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Studies In Jewish Bibliography and Medieval Hebrew Poetry
ISBN: 9789654560436 / Angielski / Twarda / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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172,64 |
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Reunion with the Beloved: Poetry and Martyrdom
ISBN: 9789889745110 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Juxta Publishing is pleased to announce the upcominf release of its first bilingual volume entitled: Reunion with the Beloved: Poetry and Martyrdom. This unique collection of poetry by, and in honor of, early and recent martyrs of the Bah' Faith in Persian and English includes a foreword by Hushmand Fatheazam, as well as extensive details pertaining to the Bah' concept of martyrdom, relevant cultural issues, excerpts from principal Bah' publications on the persecution of the Bah's and details pertaining to some of the major events resulting in the martyrdom of Bah's. Poems include the works...
Juxta Publishing is pleased to announce the upcominf release of its first bilingual volume entitled: Reunion with the Beloved: Poetry and Martyrdom. T...
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57,61 |
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Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
ISBN: 9780393332384 / Angielski / Miękka / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing together an unprecedented selection of works by South Asian, East Asian, Middle Eastern, and Central Asian poets as well as poets living in the Diaspora. Some poets, such as Bei Dao and Mahmoud Darwish, are acclaimed worldwide, but many more will be new to the reader. The collection includes 400 unique voices--political and apolitical, monastic and erotic--that represent a wider artistic movement that challenges thousand-year-old traditions, broadening our notion of...
Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing together an unprecedented sele...
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113,37 |
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The Fortieth Day
ISBN: 9781934414040 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Bible to the Quaraan, the fortieth day symbolizes the last moment before deliverance, a moment in time when a supplicant or prophet or stormbeaten passenger knows there is no state "after," but finally accepts the present state as a permanent one. In The Fortieth Day, Kazim Ali follows the fractured narratives and moving lyrics of his debut collection, The Far Mosque, with a deeply spiritual and meditative book exploring the rhetoric of prayer. Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and raised in an Islamic household. He holds degrees from the... From the Bible to the Quaraan, the fortieth day symbolizes the last moment before deliverance, a moment in time when a supplicant or prophet or sto... |
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65,51 |
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The Hours of Youth
ISBN: 9780595485291 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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100,00 |
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