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Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets
An Anthology
This anthology presents substantial selections from the work of twenty Manchu women poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The poems, inspired by their daily life and reflections, provide...
ISBN: 9780295745749
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Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor
A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection
Written around 1660, the unique Chinese short story collection Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor (Doupeng xianhua), by the author known only as Aina the Layman, uses the seemingly innocuous setting...
ISBN: 9780295746111
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The Grief of a Happy Life
In Christopher Howell’s twelfth collection of poems, his gifts for elegy, humor, and lyricism are on full display. The Grief of a Happy Life explores the interplay between memory and imagination,...
ISBN: 9780295746166
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The Propeller under the Bed
A Personal History of Homebuilt Aircraft
On July 25, 2010, Arnold Ebneter flew across the country in a plane he designed and built himself, setting an aviation world record for aircraft of its class. He was eighty-two at the time and the...
ISBN: 9780295746081
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Thieve
Thieve is a pointed, political book, though the politics here are local, particular, physically felt. The central sequence of poems—subtitled “Poem against the Crumbling of the Republic”—was...
ISBN: 9780899241661
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Agnostic
Poems
Specters as various as Vallejo, Szymborska, Neruda, Fidel Castro, and Groucho Marx guide and support the elegies in Christopher Buckley’s new collection. A god that may or may not be there as well...
ISBN: 9780899241685
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From the Fifty Jātaka
Selections from the Thai Paññāsa Jātaka
For over two thousand years, jātaka—tales of the Buddha’s previous lives—have been popular as teaching and entertainment. Apart from the classical Indian jātaka, many others in Southeast...
ISBN: 9786162151279
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Pray to the Empty Wells
Pray to the Empty Wells is a bilingual collection of poems by award-winning contemporary Ukrainian author Iryna Shuvalova. The forty-four poems reflect the central section of Shuvalova’s...
ISBN: 9780999199480
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The Lord of Everywhere
The poems in The Lord of Everywhere are about strength and courage and the will to hold on, about home and homelessness, and the tension that floats like Emily’s feather between knowing...
ISBN: 9780899241654
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Shapes of Native Nonfiction
Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers
Just as a basket’s purpose determines its materials, weave, and shape, so too is the purpose of the essay related to its material, weave, and shape. Editors Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton...
ISBN: 9780295745756
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The Nuosu Book of Origins
A Creation Epic from Southwest China
The Nuosu people, who were once overlords of vast tracts of farmland and forest in the uplands of southern Sichuan and neighboring provinces, are the largest division of the Yi ethnic group in southwest...
ISBN: 9780295745695
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Long Day
Poems
The poems in this volume bring us a taste of Peter Sears’ unique range of sensibility. Entertaining, somberly hilarious, exquisite and filled with refreshment, these are poems for all seasons,...
ISBN: 9780899241579
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The Time Machine
The Time Machine is Laura Kasischke’s eleventh book of poetry. The Time Machine offers us surreal and transformative explorations of maternity, mortality, and memory. In the opening...
ISBN: 9780999005057
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Hair of the Dog
An Anthology
Hair of the Dog, edited by poet Christopher Howell, is the second installment of The Acme Poem Company’s Zodiac Poetry Anthology Series. Hair of the Dog contains work collected from...
ISBN: 9780999005064
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From Turtle Island to Gaza
With a sure voice, Groulx, an Anishnaabee writer, artistically weaves together the experiences of Indigenous peoples in settler Canada with those of the people of Palestine, revealing a shared understanding...
ISBN: 9781771992619
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Unforgetting Private Charles Smith
Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier’s small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary’s first entry...
ISBN: 9781771992534
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Pangs of Love and Other Writings
An apprentice sushi chef and a mysterious blue-eyed woman share a bottle of wine inside a climate-controlled otter tank. The Great Wall of China grumbles as workers forego construction to watch an...
ISBN: 9780295745398
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Oceans of Longing
Nine Stories
Born into a high-status family of the Batak ethnic group indigenous to North Sumatra, Sitor Situmorang (1924–2014) was a Dutch-educated Indonesian nationalist who experienced firsthand the transition...
ISBN: 9786162151491
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Red Gerberas
Short Stories
Sitor Situmorang, one of the most celebrated Indonesian literary voices of the twentieth century, claimed that all his work dealt with a single theme—“love and wanderlust,” which are “two...
ISBN: 9786162151507
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Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature
Tales and Commentary
In literatures worldwide, animal fables have been analyzed for their revealingly anthropomorphic views, but until now little attention has been given to the animal tales of China. The complex, competitive...
ISBN: 9780295744834
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