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Testimony

A Life in Poetry

by Harry Aveling, Rendra ...

Series series Modern Library of Indonesia
Rendra (1935-2009), one of Indonesia’s most important poets and dramatists, was raised within a mystical Javanese milieu. He saw the individual, nature, and society as potentially forming one harmonious whole. This commitment to personal authenticity and social justice was expressed in Rendra’s poetry and plays. He often wrote for the marginalized and his staunch criticism of Soeharto’s New Order ... Read more

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Rendra (1935-2009), one of Indonesia’s most important poets and dramatists, was raised within a mystical Javanese milieu. He saw the individual, nature, and society as potentially forming one harmonious whole. This commitment to personal authenticity and social justice was expressed in Rendra’s poetry and plays. He often wrote for the marginalized and his staunch criticism of Soeharto’s New Order
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Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea

Verses in Praise of Bodhicitta

by Khunu Rinpoche ...

Translated by Gareth Sparham ...

Revered by many--especially His Holiness the Dalai Lama--as the very embodiment of altruism, the late Khunu Rinpoche Tenzin Gyaltsen devoted his life to the development of bodhicitta--the aspiration to achieve enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. Presented in both English and the original Tibetan, this modern classic is a collection of Khunu Rinpoche's inspirational verse. ... Read more

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Revered by many--especially His Holiness the Dalai Lama--as the very embodiment of altruism, the late Khunu Rinpoche Tenzin Gyaltsen devoted his life to the development of bodhicitta--the aspiration to achieve enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. Presented in both English and the original Tibetan, this modern classic is a collection of Khunu Rinpoche's inspirational verse.
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Unbearable Splendor

by Sun Yung Shin ...

Who is guest, and who is host? Adoption, Antigone, zombies, clones, and minotaurs—all building blocks, forming and reforming our ideas.Poetry as essay, as a way of hovering over the uncanny, sci-fi orientalism, Antigone, cyborgs, Borges, disobedience.Sun Yung Shin moves ideas around like building blocks, forming and reforming new constructions of what it means to be guest, to be host. How to be at ... Read more

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Who is guest, and who is host? Adoption, Antigone, zombies, clones, and minotaurs—all building blocks, forming and reforming our ideas.Poetry as essay, as a way of hovering over the uncanny, sci-fi orientalism, Antigone, cyborgs, Borges, disobedience.Sun Yung Shin moves ideas around like building blocks, forming and reforming new constructions of what it means to be guest, to be host. How to be at
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Drinking the Mountain Stream

Songs of Tibet's Beloved Saint, Milarepa

by Jetsun Milarepa ...

Translated by Lama Kunga Rinpoche, Brian Cutillo ...

Jetsun Milarepa, Tibet's renowned and beloved saint, is known for his penetrating insights, wry sense of humor, and ability to render any lesson into spontaneous song. His songs and poems exhibit the bold, inspirational leader as he guided followers along the Buddhist path.More than any other collection of his stories and songs, Drinking the Mountain Stream reveals Milarepa's humor and wisdom. ... Read more

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Jetsun Milarepa, Tibet's renowned and beloved saint, is known for his penetrating insights, wry sense of humor, and ability to render any lesson into spontaneous song. His songs and poems exhibit the bold, inspirational leader as he guided followers along the Buddhist path.More than any other collection of his stories and songs, Drinking the Mountain Stream reveals Milarepa's humor and wisdom.
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Simple Truths About Women and Men: Haiku Poetry Collection Book #4

by Roman O'Rhory ...

Simple Truths About Women and Men: Haiku Poetry Collection Book #4From the poet-authors H.B. Barstrum and Roman O'Rhory, comes the fourth and final book of their haiku anthology series titled Simple Truths About Women and Men.This haiku handbook offers relevant and light-hearted observations and advice about the opposing genders in a fun and quick 17 syllables format. Along with a variety of ... Read more

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Simple Truths About Women and Men: Haiku Poetry Collection Book #4From the poet-authors H.B. Barstrum and Roman O'Rhory, comes the fourth and final book of their haiku anthology series titled Simple Truths About Women and Men.This haiku handbook offers relevant and light-hearted observations and advice about the opposing genders in a fun and quick 17 syllables format. Along with a variety of
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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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Leaving Yuba City

Poems

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ...

Like Divakaruni's much-loved and bestselling short story collection Arranged Marriage, this collection of poetry deals with India and the Indian experience in America, from the adventures of going to a convent school in India run by Irish nuns (Growing up in Darjeeling) to the history of the earliest Indian immigrants in the U.S. (Yuba City Poems).Groups of interlinked poems divided into six ... Read more

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Like Divakaruni's much-loved and bestselling short story collection Arranged Marriage, this collection of poetry deals with India and the Indian experience in America, from the adventures of going to a convent school in India run by Irish nuns (Growing up in Darjeeling) to the history of the earliest Indian immigrants in the U.S. (Yuba City Poems).Groups of interlinked poems divided into six
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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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The Lover of God

by Rabindranath Tagore ...

Translated by Chase Twichell ...

Tagore's supressed book now available in an English-Bengali editionFor the first time in English, here is the sequence of poems Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (18611941) worked on his entire life-the erotic and emotionally powerful dialogue about Lord Krishna and his young lover Radha.These "song offerings" are the first poems Tagore ever published, though he passed them off as those of an ... Read more

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Tagore's supressed book now available in an English-Bengali editionFor the first time in English, here is the sequence of poems Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (18611941) worked on his entire life-the erotic and emotionally powerful dialogue about Lord Krishna and his young lover Radha.These "song offerings" are the first poems Tagore ever published, though he passed them off as those of an
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One Hundred Poems from the Chinese

by Kenneth Rexroth ...

The lyrical world of Chinese poetry in faithful translations by Kenneth Rexroth.The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries—Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)—his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions. They are as simple as they are profound, as delicate as they are beautiful ... Read more

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The lyrical world of Chinese poetry in faithful translations by Kenneth Rexroth.The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries—Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)—his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions. They are as simple as they are profound, as delicate as they are beautiful
... Read more
The Bangkok Sessions

by James Heald ...

"The Bangkok Sessions" is a collection of short poems written by the author while living in a guest house on Rattanakosin island in Bangkok, Thailand. It explores depression and faith while living on a shortage of cash while stuck between jobs in the fall of 2012. ... Read more

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"The Bangkok Sessions" is a collection of short poems written by the author while living in a guest house on Rattanakosin island in Bangkok, Thailand. It explores depression and faith while living on a shortage of cash while stuck between jobs in the fall of 2012.
... Read more
Reliquaria

by R.A. Villanueva ...

Series series The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
In his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino American identity. Languages and cultures collide; mythologies and faiths echo and resound. Part haunting, part prayer, part prophecy, these poems resonate with the voices of the dead and those who remember them. In this remarkable book, we enter the ... Read more

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In his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino American identity. Languages and cultures collide; mythologies and faiths echo and resound. Part haunting, part prayer, part prophecy, these poems resonate with the voices of the dead and those who remember them. In this remarkable book, we enter the
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