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  • After Death Comes Water

    Selected Prose Poems

    by Joy Goswami, Sampurna Chattarji ...
    'Allow yourself to be outraged and furious, allow yourself to be swept into Joy Goswami's intimate world of passion. His poems are breathtaking. They will momentarily remind you of the time you were resting your head on the chest of a lover, and by the turn of a page remind you of the bloodbath which exists in the world outside. Sampurna Chattarji's translations breathes life and fire into his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Selected Poems

    by Joy Goswami, Sampurna Chattarji ...
    This collection brings together, for the first time, poetry from three strikingly different phases of Joy Goswami's formidable literary career -- Surjo-Pora Chhai (Ashes, Burnt by the Sun, 1999), Moutat Moheshwar (Shiva, My High, 2005) and Du Dondo Phowara Matro (Merely a Spurt of Time, 2011). Selected and translated by Sampurna Chatterji, this book, which includes an in-depth interview with the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Poems

    by Joy Goswami ...
    A towering figure in contemporary Bengali literature, Joy Goswami continues to mesmerize generations through his poetry. In a very readable translation, Sampurna Chattarji captures every nuance and subtle detail of the original, with the poems giving a unique twist to the universal themes of love, suffering, sacrifice and death. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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  • The Persistence of Memory

    by Urvashi Butalia ...
    Some journeys exist in the mind. Bir Bahadur Singh is haunted by the longing to return. Forced to leave his village in Pakistan during Partition in traumaticcircumstances, he makes the journey back, fifty-four years later, to pick up the connections from that long past time. In that wrenching journey, he meets his old friend who now lives in his childhood home and exchanges banter with him and ... Read more

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  • 5 Things to Know and Debate Before You Vote

    by Hindol Sengupta ...
    With terrifying standards in everything from personal hygiene to financial probity, Indian democracy is gravely imperilled. But is that the debate you hear? Is that what resonates across campaign speeches? Assailed by the question of who are we to vote for, we are forgetting the other vital question-what are we to vote for?This book is a shout-out, a call to action to talk about the things that ... Read more

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  • Return to Good Riddance

    A Cameo of Contemporary Patna

    by Sankarshan Thakur ...
    Patna is not a nice place to be. It is home to me and I cannot stop wanting to go back every once in a while, wanting to be a part of its life. I say this even so: Patna is not a nice place to be.In this masterful portrait of Patna, Sankarshan Thakur chronicles the way the city has changed-or not-under chief minister Nitish Kumar. Having grown up in Patna, the author gives an insider-outsider ... Read more

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  • Love Story of the Oysters

    by Lopa Ghosh ...
    An employee's roving eye leads to an exotic offsite gender-sensitivity workshop that throbs with lust in this dystopian tale about the corporate world. ... Read more

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  • Three Heart Attacks

    by Mridula Koshy ...
    The boarding school is closed for vacations. Two girls, the last two, wait nervously for their parents to come and take them back home. One of the girls, now an adult who has lost those parents, receives an odd phone call, which brings back memories of that troubling wait. Mridula Koshy's captivating story teases out the particular kind of heaviness of the heart that only a child can feel. ... Read more

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  • Najma

    by Anita Nair ...
    A searing story about a young woman's struggle to overcome the effects of a violent acid attack, Najma asks some tough questions about the way gender operates in modern India. In a society where men seem to feel entitled to a woman's body and mind, and where criminals get away with the most inhuman of acts, what can a woman do to keep her sanity and find the motivation to live? ... Read more

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  • Japanese Haiku: The Four Seasons

    Translated by Peter Beilenson ...
    by Basho, Buson ...
    Series Book 2 - Peter Pauper Press Classic Haiku
    Step into a series of dazzling, funny, melancholy, and joyous moments with this collection of haiku masterworks. Beloved translator Peter Beilensons goals were twofold: to craft a book of haiku accessible to anyone, and to render his best guess at what the poets would have written in English. His translations preserve the sublime spirit of each verse, conjuring vivid visual and emotional ... Read more

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  • Zen Poetry

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    Edited by Lucien Stryk, Takashi Ikemoto ...
    From the editors of Zen Poems of China and Japan comes the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind to appear in English.This collaboration between a Japanese scholar and an American poet has rendered translations both precise and sublime, and their selections, which span fifteen hundred years—from the early T'ang dynasty to the present day—include many poems that have never before ... Read more

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