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Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon

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Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1942683014
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon written by and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 106 poems by 44 female Tang-era poets is the most comprehensive of its kind. Poets are organized based on their status in Tang dynasty society: women of the court, women of the household, courtesans and entertainers, and women of religion. While each poet’s concerns vary with their social status, common thematic threads include heartbreak and the mysteries of the natural world. Thumbnail biographies of each poet and notes regarding individual poems complete this important collection. Jeanne Larsen has published poetry, three novels set in China, and a book of poetry translation, Brocade River Poems: Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan Xue Tao. She teaches in the creative writing program at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia.

Willow

Author : Alison Syme
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780233329
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Willow written by Alison Syme and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drooping lazily over waterways, shading gardens, guarding hedgerows—the willow tree is a poetically formed plant, but also a practical one. For millennia, the wood of the willow has been used for baskets, furniture, fences, and toys, while finding its place in the watercolors of Monet, Shakespearean tragedies, Hans Christian Andersen, and The Lord of the Rings. Telling the willow’s rich and multilayered tale, Alison Syme explores its presence in literature, art, and human history. Syme examines the manifold practical uses of the tree, discussing the application of its bark in medicines, its production as an energy crop that produces biofuel and charcoal, and its employment for soil stabilization and other environmental protection schemes. But despite all the functional uses of willows, she argues, we must also heed the lessons they teach about living, dying, and enriching our world. Looking at the roles that willows have played in folklore, religion, and art, she parses their connections to grief and joy, toil and play, necessity and ornament. Filled with one hundred images, Willow is a seamless account of the singular place the willow holds in our culture.

Planetary Modernisms

Author : Susan Stanford Friedman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539479
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Planetary Modernisms written by Susan Stanford Friedman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Considering cosmopolitan as well as nomadic and oceanic worlds, she radically revises the scope of modernist critique and opens the practice to more integrated study. Friedman moves from large-scale instances of pre-1500 modernities, such as Tang Dynasty China and the Mongol Empire, to small-scale instances of modernisms, including the poetry of Du Fu and Kabir and Abbasid ceramic art. She maps the interconnected modernisms of the long twentieth century, pairing Joseph Conrad with Tayeb Salih, E. M. Forster with Arundhati Roy, Virginia Woolf with the Tagores, and Aimé Césaire with Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. She reads postcolonial works from Sudan and India and engages with the idea of Négritude. Rejecting the modernist concepts of marginality, othering, and major/minor, Friedman instead favors rupture, mobility, speed, networks, and divergence, elevating the agencies and creative capacities of all cultures not only in the past and present but also in the century to come.

Women in Tang China

Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153813490X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Women in Tang China written by Bret Hinsch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book provides the first comprehensive survey of women in China during the Sui and Tang dynasties from the sixth through tenth centuries CE. Bret Hinsch provides rich insight into female life in the medieval era, ranging from political power, wealth, and work to family, religious roles, and virtues. He explores women’s lived experiences but also delves into the subjective side of their emotional life and the ideals they pursued. Deeply researched, the book draws on a wide range of sources, including standard histories, poetry, prose literature, and epigraphic sources such as epitaphs, commemorative religious inscriptions, and Dunhuang documents. Building on the best Western and Japanese scholarship, Hinsch also draws heavily on Chinese scholarship, most of which is unknown outside China. As the first study in English about women in the medieval era, this groundbreaking work will open a new window into Chinese history for Western readers.

Probable Lives

Author : Felipe Benítez Reyes
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781929918812
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Probable Lives written by Felipe Benítez Reyes and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing of Felipe Benítez Reyes, a significant contributor to the Spanish Postmodern esthetic, speaks to issues of voice, persona, and the possibilities of fiction. Probable Lives won the 1996 National Book Award in Spain, the 1996 National Critics' Award in Spain, and the City of Melilla International Prize. A book of heteronyms, the character-poets in Probable Lives read as forgotten or unknown twentieth-century authors, all "rediscovered" and compiled by an anthologist who is also the creation of Reyes. Probable Lives tweaks the notion of identity in ways that are both engaging and downright funny.

This Number Does Not Exist

Author : Mangalesh Dabral
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1942683138
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book This Number Does Not Exist written by Mangalesh Dabral and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attentive critique on contemporary reality—modernity, capitalism, industrialization—this first United States publication of Mangalesh Dabral, presented in bilingual English and Hindi, speaks for the dislocated, disillusioned people of our time. Juxtaposing the rugged Himalayan backdrop of Dabral's youth with his later migration in search of earning a livelihood, this collection explores the tense relationship between country and city. Speaking in the language of deep irony, these compassionate poems also depict the reality of diaspora among ordinary people and the middle class, underlining the big disillusionment of post-Independence India. "Song of the Dislocated" With a heavy heart we left tore away from the ancestral home mud slips behind us now stones fall in a hail look back a bit brother how the doors shut themselves behind each one of them a room utterly forlorn Mangalesh Dabral was born in 1948 in the Tehri Garhwal district of the Himalayas. The author of nine books of poetry, essays, and other genres, his work has been translated and published in all major Indian languages and in Russian, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Polish, and Bulgarian. He has spent his adult life as a literary editor for various newspapers published in Delhi and other north Indian cities, and has been featured at numerous international events and festivals, including the International Poetry Festival. The recipient of many literary awards, he has also translated into Hindi the works of Pablo Neruda, Bertolt Brecht, Ernesto Cardenal, Yannis Ritsos, Tadeusz Rozewicz, and Zbigniew Herbert. Dabral lives in Ghaziabad, India.

Seed in Snow

Author : Knuts Skujenieks
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1942683235
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Seed in Snow written by Knuts Skujenieks and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first U.S. publication of Knuts Skujenieks—one of Latvia’s foremost poets—is the author’s most important and widely-translated body of work. Convicted in 1962 of anti-Soviet sentiment, Skujenieks wrote these poems during seven years of imprisonment at a labor camp in Mordovia. Vivid and expressive, this collection overcomes the physical experience of confinement in order to assert a limitless creative freedom.

The Oasis of Now

Author : Sohrab Sepehri
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160231
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Oasis of Now written by Sohrab Sepehri and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980) is one of the major Iranian poets of the 20th century. His verses are often-recited in public gatherings and lines from them were used as slogans by protesters in 2009. A painter, wood-worker, and poet, Sepehri wrote these poems after journeys through Japan, China, and India, where he was exposed to various cultural arts and spiritual disciplines.

The Beheaded Poetess

Author : Poet Laureate Jean Elizabeth Ward
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435718429
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book The Beheaded Poetess written by Poet Laureate Jean Elizabeth Ward and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beheaded Poetess is a book about the life of the T'ang Dynasty Nun and Poetess, Yu Xuanji. Two books in one: history and poetry. The work of Genevieve Wimsatt in her 1937 book: Selling Wilted Peonies is revised into Concrete Poetry throughout the book, with acknowledgements below each section and poem. Intermingled with the original translations of Yu Xuanji, with a modern day Poet Laureate Editing it, and including her own versions, homages to, and inspired by poems. She has combined her love of history with poetry to come up with a First Edition, winning combination. This book began as only an Homage to book, and somehow evolved into an accurate historical write, with many interesting facts worked in throughout the book. Included are a few illustrations. Truly a work of love by Jean Elizabeth Ward.

You Who Cross My Path

Author : Erez Bitton
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160886
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book You Who Cross My Path written by Erez Bitton and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first US publication of Erez Bitton, one of Israel's most celebrated poets, recalls the fate of Moroccan Jewish culture with poems both evocative and pure. Considered the founding father of Mizrahi Israeli, a major tradition in the history of Hebrew poetry, Bitton's bilingual collection dramatically expands the scope of biographical experience and memory, ultimately resurrecting a vanishing world and culture. Preliminary Background Words My mother my mother from a village of shrubs green of a different green. From a bird's nest producing milk sweeter than sweet. From a nightingale's cradle of a thousand Arabian nights. My mother my mother who staved off evil with her middle fingers with beating her chest on behalf of all mothers. My father my father who delved into worlds who sanctified the Sabbath with pure Araq who was most practiced in synagogue traditions. And I— having distanced myself deep into my heart would recite when all were asleep short Bach masses deep into my heart in Jewish- Moroccan. Erez Bitton was born in 1942 to Moroccan parents in Oran, Algeria, and emigrated to Israel in 1948. Blinded by a stray hand grenade in Lod, he spent his childhood in Jerusalem's School for the Blind. He is considered the founding father of Mizrahi poetry in Israel—the first poet to take on the conflict between North African immigrants and the Ashkenazi society, and the first to use Judeo-Arabic dialect in his poetry. His most recent award is the Bialik Lifetime Achievement Award (2014).

Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World [2 volumes]

Author : Tiffany K. Wayne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313345813
Total Pages : 805 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World [2 volumes] written by Tiffany K. Wayne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting more than 200 sources in the global history of feminism, this anthology supplies an insightful record of the resistance to patriarchy throughout human history and around the world. From writings by Enheduana in ancient Mesopotamia (2350 BCE) to the present-day manifesto of the Association of Women for Action and Research in Singapore, Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World: A Global Sourcebook and History excerpts more than 200 feminist primary source documents from Africa to the Americas to Australia. Serving to depict "feminism" as much broader—and older—than simply the modern struggle for political rights and equality, this two-volume work provides a more comprehensive and varied record of women's resistance cross-culturally and throughout history. The author's goal is to showcase a wide range of writers, thinkers, and organizations in order to document how resistance to patriarchy has been at the center of social, political, and intellectual history since the infancy of human civilization. This work addresses feminist ideas expressed privately through poetry, letters, and autobiographies, as well as the public and political aspects of women's rights movements.

Women in China from Earliest Times to the Present

Author : Robin Yates
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047429664
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Women in China from Earliest Times to the Present written by Robin Yates and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential reference work is an alphabetic listing, with an extensive index, of more than 2500 citations of books, chapters in books, and articles, and 100+ dissertations in all social science and humanities disciplines relating to women in China from earliest times to today.

Smugglers

Author : Ales Debeljak
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160681
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Smugglers written by Ales Debeljak and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Smugglers move through rapid historical shifts and meditations on personal experience, exploring the depths and limits of comprehension through the people and geography of the Balkans. Ultimately, Aleš Debeljak's urban imagination creates a mosaic—intimate and historical—of a vanished people and their country. Every poem in Smugglers is sixteen lines long—four quatrains, a common form for Debeljak. This structural regularity is reinforced by a commitment to visual balance, with each poem working as a kind of grid into which the poet pours memories and associative riffs. From "Bookstore": At least you are blessed. Winter's here. In darkness, awake since yesterday, I came to browse again through the titles of old books, wobbly skyscrapers, writers of my youth and stiffened honey. No opening hours on the door, a minor poet with no woman sits behind files in the front. I know him from when we all shouted in one loyal voice, collected works on sale for a handful of cents, read the holy Kapital like zealots. Well, okay: not exactly all. Some of us took another road . . . Aleš Debeljak's books have appeared in English, Japanese, German, Croatian, Serbian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Spanish, Slovak, Finnish, Lithuanian, and Italian translations. He teaches in the department of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Brian Henry is the author of ten books of poetry and won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award. He teaches at University of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.

Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers

Author : N. Harry Rothschild
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539185
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers written by N. Harry Rothschild and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wu Zhao (624–705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China as emperor over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she—in a predominantly patriarchal and androcentric society—ascend the dragon throne? Exploring a mystery that has confounded scholars for centuries, this multifaceted history suggests that China's rich pantheon of female divinities and eminent women played an integral part in the construction of Wu Zhao's sovereignty. Wu Zhao deftly deployed language, symbol, and ideology to harness the cultural resonance, maternal force, divine energy, and historical weight of Buddhist devis, Confucian exemplars, Daoist immortals, and mythic goddesses, establishing legitimacy within and beyond the confines of Confucian ideology. Tapping into powerful subterranean reservoirs of female power, Wu Zhao built a pantheon of female divinities carefully calibrated to meet her needs at court. Her pageant was promoted in scripted rhetoric, reinforced through poetry, celebrated in theatrical productions, and inscribed on steles. Rendered with deft political acumen and aesthetic flair, these affiliations significantly enhanced Wu Zhao's authority and cast her as the human vessel through which the pantheon's divine energy flowed. Her strategy is a model of political brilliance and proof that medieval Chinese women enjoyed a more complex social status than previously known.

Praises & Offenses

Author : Aída Cartagena Portalatin
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160940
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Praises & Offenses written by Aída Cartagena Portalatin and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As tropical as it is topical, this landmark anthology gives voice to three powerful women poets from the Dominican Republic. Together they present a wide array of linguistic and stylistic elements, and they address shared political and cultural issues that illuminate what it means to be a woman in the modern-day Dominican Republic. Translator Judith Kerman, who began the anthology as a Senior Fulbright Scholar, notes that “contemporary women poets from the Dominican Republic are the most underserved group when it comes to English-language translations.” This anthology remedies that omission with poetry that is smart, edgy, and groundbreaking.

Flowers of a Moment

Author : Ko Un
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160894
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Flowers of a Moment written by Ko Un and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Bodhisattva of Korean poetry, exuberant, demotic, abundant, obsessed with poetic creation . . . Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.”—Allen Ginsberg "Korea's greatest living Zen poet."—Lawrence Ferlinghetti Flowers of a Moment is a treasure trove of more than 180 brief poems by a major world poet at the apex of his career. A four-time Nobel Prize nominee,Ko Un grew up in Korea during the Japanese occupation. During the Korean War, he was conscripted by the People's Army. In 1952, he became a Buddhist and lived a monastic life for ten years. For his activism confronting South Korea's dictatorial military government, he was imprisoned and tortured. He has published more than one hundred volumes of poetry, essays, fiction, drama, and translations of Chinese poetry. At sunset a wish to become a wolf beneath a fat full moon

The Book of Things

Author : Ales Steger
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1934414743
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Things written by Ales Steger and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his first book of poems, Chessboards of Hours (1995), Aleš Šteger has been one of Slovenia's most promising poets. The philosophical and lyrical sophistication of his poems, along with his work as a leading book editor and festival organizer, quickly spread Šteger's reputation beyond the borders of Slovenia. The Book of Things is Šteger's most widely praised book of poetry and his first American collection. The book consists of fifty poems that look at "things" (i.e. aspirin, chair, cork) which are transformed by Šteger's unique poetic alchemy. Translator Brian Henry is a distinguished poet, translator, editor, and critic. From Publisher’s Weekly: Steger’s efforts sometimes bring to mind such Western European figures as Francis Ponge and Craig Raine, who also sought to make household things look new and strange. Yet Steger brings a melancholy Central European sense of history- his objects tend to remember, or cause, great pain: “It pours, this poisonous, sweet force,” Steger writes of “Saliva,” “Between teeth, when you spit your own little genocide.” (Nov.) From Guernica, a Magazine of Art and Politics: It is a rare treat to have an English translation before the ink has dried on the original. By which I mean, a mere five years after the book’s Slovenian publication, Brian Henry has brought these poems to life for those of us not lucky enough to read Slovenian. Henry’s translations are impressive for sheer acrobatics.