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81) Drawing Sounds
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The title of this collection hints at the way the poet registers the sounds in his poems as visuals. Readers will encounter poems about sex, love, lust, death, whores, evil, cakes, tablets, cats, public speaking, haikus, gym, the tsunami in Asia, ageing, tripping, clubbing, plus a few whimsical pieces--all colored by synaesthesia. The poet wrote most of them in free verse, but he didn't forget to put in a couple of rhymes in a few, to underpin the...
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"Dúo de Líneas" después de "Dúo de Puntos" de Maki Starfield, la poetisa japonesa, es su segunda colección con Luca Benassi, un influyente poeta italiano contemporáneo.
Los temas son el amor y la paz. Benassi se centra tanto en el lado negativo como en el positivo de los seres humanos. Sus poemas son como respuestas de un filósofo.
Maki Starfield, el creador del "tsubuyaki" de tres líneas de estilo libre, inspirado en el haiku japonés tradicional,...
84) Moving House
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Theophilus Kwek's first UK collection is concerned with the individual and the collective stories that become history. The poems set out from formative moments in the poet's memory, to pivotal moments in the colonial past of Southeast Asia, and finally the political upheavals of the present. Hospitality, precarity, migration these are some of the themes that recur as the poet makes his own journey from Singapore to Europe and back again. Moving House...
85) Hokusai
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Katsushika Hokusai is the most famous of a sequence of names used by a versatile and long-lived Japanese artist who worked in many genres and schools, evolving a unique style that made him known then as well as now as a true master. He was an unusual and restless man who slipped boundaries and made fresh connections, yet never sought great wealth or position. Hokusai produced over 30,000 different designs, prints, illustrations, paintings, and sketches....
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Xue Tao (A.D. 768-831) was well known as a poet in an age when all men of learning were poets--and almost all women were illiterate. As an entertainer and official government hostess, she met, and impressed, many of the most talented and powerful figures of her day. As a maker of beautiful paper and a Taoist churchwoman, she maintained a life of independence and aesthetic sensibility. As a writer, she crrated a body of work that is by turns deeply...
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Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu is a bilingual collection of English and Chinese versions of poetry by Li Bai and Du Fu, the most renowned poets in all of Chinese literature. Translated by Keith Holyoak, this volume includes an introduction to the poets and their work, plus a bibliography. Holyoak's translations capture the essential beauty of the poets' language, while retaining key elements of the structure of the original poems, including their metric...
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This book talks about how you can frame a story and convey your feelings and emotions using rhyming sentence in poetic style. There are several topics which actually connects you directly with your personal life and you can have the glimpse of it once again and few are like where you can admire about their presence and few topics will tell why it is has to be their in everyone's life. so rather going into deep, i urge you to read it very carefully...
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In To Love the Coming End, a disillusioned author obsessed with natural disasters and 'the curse of 11' reflects on their own personal earthquake: the loss of a loved one. A lyric travelogue that moves between Singapore, Canada, and Japan, this debut from Leanne Dunic captures what it's ike to be united while simultaneously separated from the global experience of trauma, history, and loss that colour our everyday lives.
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Presenting classic Japanese woodblock prints, Japan Journeys offers a unique perspective on the country's most famous travel destinations. Art historian Andreas Marks has gathered together approximately two hundred Japanese woodblock prints depicting scenic spots and cultural icons that still delight visitors today. Many of the prints are by masters such as Utagawa Hiroshige, Kitagawa Utamaro, and Utagawa Kunisada, and currently hang in prestigious...
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This work is a brief but comprehensive study on mind management, beauty of nature, inner urges, coexistence, definition of life, patience, unjustified hunger, emotions, equality of human beings, sense of pride, sorrow, pleasure, human behaviour, respect, sacrifice, unexpected happenings, hunger for money and ignorance. It will be a useful study for social scientists, saintly personalities, teachers and students in India and abroad.
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It is an initiative anthology which is providing platform to the writers whose inks are efforting to explore, by publishing their write-ups. Everyone is going to feel every word jotted down by our authors because all knows that their writings are not just a meaningless abyss but flashes a glimpse of life. Allow us to take you on a journey of magical proses and poems, into a world of realism written by different writers. You will definitely get touched...
94) 69 Sexy Haiku
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In the mood for love? Looking to spice up your boudoir? Kick your love life up a notch with 69 Sexy Haiku, written to entice, seduce and delight lovers at play. From sensual poetry that will massage your senses to truly explicit mini-fantasies, these 69 poems explore love, lust and intimate relations with a personal twist. Read them to your lover to get them hot and bothered before bed, or to inspire them with new ideas! For readers 18+ and open minded...
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Masters student Sophy Seng is looking for a good resume builder, so she takes an internship in her parents' birth country of Cambodia in Southeast Asia. As she assimilates to this exotic land and its people, she's confronted with the true story of a young Cambodian girl. It's a story she cannot ignore; a story that changes her way of thinking. A story of one young woman's journey from fear to freedom.
Born in the early 1980s to survivors of the Khmer...
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Song of the Bamboo: O South Wind, the Wanderer, come and rock me, Rouse me into the rapture of new leaves. I am the wayside bamboo tree, waiting for your breath to tingle life into my branches. O South Wind, the Wanderer, my dwelling is in the end of the lane. I know your wayfaring, and the language of your footsteps. Your least touch thrills me out of my slumber, your whisper gleans my secrets. (Enter a troop of girls, dancing, representing birds.)...
98) Tricky twins
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Ricky and Nicky are twins, and even though they are like two peas in a pod, it is not as hard to tell them apart as it could be.
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The Communist Pathet Lao has taken over this former French colony. Most of the educated class has fled, but Dr. Siri Paiboun, a Paris-trained doctor whose late wife had been an ardent Communist, remains. And so this 72-year-old physician is appointed state coroner, despite the fact that he has no training or even supplies to use in performing his new task. What he does have is curiosity and integrity. At his age he is not about to let a bunch of ignorant...
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When in Rome volume 1
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"When every man Annie's dated finds "his person" right after breaking up with her, she has a new plan--a fresh, man-free start. Too bad she finds herself sharing a cabin in remote Rome, Rhode Island, with a hot male roommate. Emmitt is trying to cement his place in his daughter Paisley's life. With a stepdad and an uncle competing for Paisley's attention, Emmitt has lost his place at the family table. Then there's the adorably sexy squatter in his...
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