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The Origin of Happiness & Other Poems

A trilingual edition in English, German and Indonesian

by Helga Blazy, John McGlynn, Nirwan Dewanto ...

Series Book 19 - BTW
German title: Der Ursprung des Glücks und andere GedichteIndonesian title: Asal-Usul Kebahagiaan dan puisi lainnyaNirwan Dewanto’s poems invite readers to explore a world which, at a glance, mightseem familiar. Yet they always conceal something beneath the surface –or viceversa. Objects and items normally encountered in everyday life appear verydifferent in Nirwan’s poems, exhibiting a character ... Read more

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German title: Der Ursprung des Glücks und andere GedichteIndonesian title: Asal-Usul Kebahagiaan dan puisi lainnyaNirwan Dewanto’s poems invite readers to explore a world which, at a glance, mightseem familiar. Yet they always conceal something beneath the surface –or viceversa. Objects and items normally encountered in everyday life appear verydifferent in Nirwan’s poems, exhibiting a character
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The Bhagavad Gita

by Eknath Easwaran ...

Series Book 1 - Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality
The Bhagavad Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Eknath Easwaran’s best-selling translation is reliable, readable, and profound.Easwaran's 55-page introduction places the Bhagavad Gita in its historical setting, and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings. Chapter introductions clarify key concepts, and notes and a glossary explain Sanskrit terms.Easwaran ... Read more

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The Bhagavad Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Eknath Easwaran’s best-selling translation is reliable, readable, and profound.Easwaran's 55-page introduction places the Bhagavad Gita in its historical setting, and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings. Chapter introductions clarify key concepts, and notes and a glossary explain Sanskrit terms.Easwaran
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Tagore, The Poetry Of

by Rabindranath Tagore ...

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage. In this volume we venture to the East. To met a poet who ... Read more

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Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage. In this volume we venture to the East. To met a poet who
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The Art of Haiku

Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters

by Stephen Addiss ...

In the past hundred years, haiku has gone far beyond its Japanese origins to become a worldwide phenomenon—with the classic poetic form growing and evolving as it has adapted to the needs of the whole range of languages and cultures that have embraced it. This proliferation of the joy of haiku is cause for celebration—but it can also compel us to go back to the beginning: to look at haiku’s ... Read more

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In the past hundred years, haiku has gone far beyond its Japanese origins to become a worldwide phenomenon—with the classic poetic form growing and evolving as it has adapted to the needs of the whole range of languages and cultures that have embraced it. This proliferation of the joy of haiku is cause for celebration—but it can also compel us to go back to the beginning: to look at haiku’s
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The Crescent Moon

by Rabindranath Tagore ...

"The Crescent Moon", written in 1913, is a wonderful collection of lyrical poetry and poetry in prose by India's most well-known poet, Rabindranath Tagore, whose book "Gitanjali" shot him to fame in the west.Originally written in Bengali, the poet himself translated the book into English. Most of the poems in "The Crescent Moon" focus on the love in a mother-child relationship and its development ... Read more

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"The Crescent Moon", written in 1913, is a wonderful collection of lyrical poetry and poetry in prose by India's most well-known poet, Rabindranath Tagore, whose book "Gitanjali" shot him to fame in the west.Originally written in Bengali, the poet himself translated the book into English. Most of the poems in "The Crescent Moon" focus on the love in a mother-child relationship and its development
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When Sun Meets Moon

Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry

by Scott Kugle ...

Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle’s comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious practice in South Asian Islamic culture. Shah Siraj Awrangabadi (1715-1763), known as “Sun,” was a ... Read more

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The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle’s comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious practice in South Asian Islamic culture. Shah Siraj Awrangabadi (1715-1763), known as “Sun,” was a
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Haiku - Through a Lens

by Kevin Mackey ...

A collection of Haiku poetry combined with photographs on the themes of Light, Darkness, Travel and Seasons, ... Read more

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This Way to the Sugar

by Hieu Minh Nguyen ...

Hieu Nguyen's bruising collection of poems, This Way to the Sugar, puts a blade and a microscope to nostalgia, tradition, race, apology, and sexuality, in order to find beauty in a flawed world. His work has been described as "an astounding testament to the power and necessity of confession." This powerful book asks whether it might be better "to leave the blade inside the body," whether ... Read more

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Hieu Nguyen's bruising collection of poems, This Way to the Sugar, puts a blade and a microscope to nostalgia, tradition, race, apology, and sexuality, in order to find beauty in a flawed world. His work has been described as "an astounding testament to the power and necessity of confession." This powerful book asks whether it might be better "to leave the blade inside the body," whether
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Midnight, Dhaka

by Mahfuz Ali Mir ...

Mir Mahfuz Ali is an exceptional new voice in British Poetry. A native of what is now Bangladesh, Mahfuz grew up during the difficult period of the early 1970's when the region was struck, first by a devastating cyclone, then by a particularly vicious civil war. As a boy, Mahfuz witnessed atrocities and writes about them with a searing directness in poems like 'My Salma' and the title poem. But ... Read more

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Mir Mahfuz Ali is an exceptional new voice in British Poetry. A native of what is now Bangladesh, Mahfuz grew up during the difficult period of the early 1970's when the region was struck, first by a devastating cyclone, then by a particularly vicious civil war. As a boy, Mahfuz witnessed atrocities and writes about them with a searing directness in poems like 'My Salma' and the title poem. But
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Magnolia & Lotus

Selected Poems of Hyesim

by Ian Haight, T'ae-yong Ho, Chin’gak Kuksa Hyesim ...

Series series Korean Voices Series
“Reading poems from another language, culture, and century, I often feel like a foreigner excluded from the original’s greatest subtleties. Not so in Hyesim’s miraculous time-traveling poems, which might have been written yesterday or tomorrow, and anywhere. There’s not a single opaque word in the book. The poems are Buddhist, yes, and Zen (S?n) in particular, but they’re written for anyone ... Read more

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“Reading poems from another language, culture, and century, I often feel like a foreigner excluded from the original’s greatest subtleties. Not so in Hyesim’s miraculous time-traveling poems, which might have been written yesterday or tomorrow, and anywhere. There’s not a single opaque word in the book. The poems are Buddhist, yes, and Zen (S?n) in particular, but they’re written for anyone
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When I Find You Again, It Will Be in Mountains

The Selected Poems of Chia Tao

Chia Tao (779-843), an erstwhile Zen monk who became a poet during China's Tang dynasty, recorded the lives of the sages, masters, immortals, and hermits who helped establish the great spiritual tradition of Zen Buddhism in China.Presented in both the original Chinese and Mike O'Connor's beautifully crafted English translation, When I Find You Again, It Will Be in Mountains brings to life this ... Read more

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Chia Tao (779-843), an erstwhile Zen monk who became a poet during China's Tang dynasty, recorded the lives of the sages, masters, immortals, and hermits who helped establish the great spiritual tradition of Zen Buddhism in China.Presented in both the original Chinese and Mike O'Connor's beautifully crafted English translation, When I Find You Again, It Will Be in Mountains brings to life this
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A Unique Angel

by Arezou Dasta ...

A series of emotional sentences for respecting my beloved teacher. ... Read more

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