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  • A Tower Built Downwards

    by Yang Lian, Ai Weiwei ...
    Translated by Brian Holton ...
    A Tower Built Downwards is the latest instalment of poetry from one of the most innovative and influential poets from China. Before and since his enforced exile from 1989, Yang Lian has been widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many languages.The different sections – short poems, sequences, and one long poem – form a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Narrative Poem

    by Yang Lian ...
    Translated by Brian Holton ...
    Before and since his enforced exile from 1989, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets in China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many languages. Narrative Poem, Yang Lian’s most personal work to date, is built around a series of family photographs, the first of which was taken on the day ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

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  • Loop of Jade

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  • Sky, Wind, and Stars

    by Yun Dong-ju, Kyung-nyun Kim Richards, Steffen R. Richards ...
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  • Of Gravity & Angels

    by Jane Hirshfield ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
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  • The Poems of Rowan Williams

    by Rowan Williams ...
    Rowan Williams's first collections of poems, After Silent Centuries and Remembering Jerusalem, along with a selection of new ones make up this new collection. It displays a poetry that embodies abstract ideas in vivid sensual images. The subject matter ranges widely: the natural world, works of art, recollections of a visit to the Holy Land at Easter, thoughts arising from fragments of the ancient ... Read more

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  • My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree

    Selected Poems

    by Yi Lei ...
    Translated by Tracy K. Smith ...
    One of China’s most significant contemporary poets, co-translated by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith*Shortlisted for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize*Yi Lei published her poem “A Single Woman’s Bedroom” in 1987, when cohabitation before marriage was a punishable crime in China. She was met with major critical acclaim—and with outrage—for her frank embrace of women’s erotic desire and her ... Read more

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  • Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods

    by Tishani Doshi ...
    Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods is Tishani Doshi's third book of poems, following two earlier, highly praised collections, Everything Belongs Elsewhere, published by Bloodaxe in 2012, and her debut, Countries of the Body, winner of the Forward Prize for best first collection. In Girls are Coming out of the Woods, Tishani Doshi combines artistic elegance with a visceral power to create a ... Read more

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  • When the Barbarians Arrive

    by Alvin Pang ...
    Series series Arc International Poets Series
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  • Wheel With a Single Spoke

    and Other Poems

    by Nichita Stanescu ...
    Translated by Sean Cotter ...
    Winner of the Herder Prize, Nichita Stanescu was one of Romania’s most celebrated contemporary poets. This dazzling collection of poems – the most extensive collection of his work to date – reveals a world in which heavenly and mysterious forces converse with the everyday and earthbound, where love and a quest for truth are central, and urgent questions flow. His startling images stretch the ... Read more

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