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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

    $4.99 CAD

  • Borrowed Body & Other Poems

    A trilingual edition in English, German and Indonesian

    by Harry Aveling, Helga Blazy, Joko Pinurbo ...
    Series Book 13 - BTW
    German title: Der geliehene Körper und andere GedichteIndonesian title: Tubuh Pinjaman dan puisi lainnyaJoko Pinurbo’s poetry is immediately recognizable for its simple language, accessibility, and the recurrent use of a number of specific but unusual motifs. His poems deal with a wide range of interpersonal relationships, with figures who engage in prosaic narratives that are deeply ironic, full ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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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

    $14.50 CAD

  • The Sound of the Tang Dynasty

    by Dong Botao ...
    The Sound of the Tang Dynasty is a carefully curated collection of 102 timeless poems from one of the most celebrated periods in literary history.Drawn from the Tang Dynasty - widely regarded as the golden age of Chinese poetry - these works reflect a profound harmony between nature, human experience, and philosophical insight. Through themes of solitude, beauty, longing, and reflection, the poems ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • 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

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $2.99 CAD

  • Cold Mountain Poems

    Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-chih

    by Han Shan ...
    Translated by J. P. Seaton ...
    Series series Shambhala Library
    The incomparable poetry of Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and his sidekick Shih Te, the rebel poets who became icons of Chinese poetry and Zen, has long captured the imagination of poetry lovers and Zen aficionados. Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, these legendary T’ang era (618–907) figures are portrayed as the laughing, ragged pair who left their poetry ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • 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

    $31.19 CAD

  • 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

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    by Omar Khayyam ...
    First published in English by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859 from its original Farsi, “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” is a collection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam, a Persian astronomer and mathematician born in the later part of the 11th century. Omar Khayyam’s poetry, which received very little international notoriety in its own day, achieved classic status when it was discovered and ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • 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

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus