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Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882) is a collection of poems by Toru Dutt. Compiled after her death and published in London, Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan is an invaluable work of art from a pioneering figure in Indian history and Bengali literature. Born in Calcutta to a family of Bengali Christians, Toru Dutt was raised at the crossroads of English and Indian cultures. In addition to her native Bengali, she became fluent in...
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From the bottom of my low, tiny-boobed heart, thank you.
Christina Gayton welcomes you to her world in Buddha Baby. If you like depressing, and/or sarcastic poetry, then this collection is for you. Not one to shy away from personal topics, Gayton writes about alcoholism, abuse, dysfunctional relationships, sexism, anxiety, and Asian fetishization.
Poems include:
• "AirBnB," a retelling of life with an alcoholic father
• "MSDP," a poem about...
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In Some Beheadings, winner of The Believer Poetry Award, the "beheaded" poet asks, "What does thinking feel like," as she displaces her mind into landscape, exploring territories as disparate as India's Western Ghats and the cinematic Mojave Desert, and as absurd as insomnia and dream.
4) Harvest
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A modern morality play. A bitter, savagely funny vision of the cannibalistic future that awaits the human race...? OUTLOOK
A searing portrayal of a society bereft of moral and spiritual anchors, Manjula Padmanabhan’s fifth play, Harvest, won the Onassis Award for Original Theatrical Drama in 1997, the first year in which the prize was awarded. Following its international premiere in Greece in 1999, the play has been performed over the years by theatre...
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"When the blowing winds advocate to die...
Hope and the light refuse to be shy... "
Using every wound as a prop, every word as a weapon and her own life as a role model, Naziha Mahmood is fundamentally the subject of her own work. She is every person struggling with dismissal and subdual. From a fractured woman, Naziha had to toughen herself up. Naziha expresses her Asian background and the burden that comes with it. Her work is for anyone who may...
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This is the 3rd series of poetry collection from writer E Von Lam as she ponders about life ::dreaming of the fallen in yesteryears and solitude where the night beckons "there are those little details we overlook when life is embraced and there is the wonder of simple gestures whom our hearts realised too late"
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Poet and storyteller Shaku Selvakumar gathers wisdom gleaned from the seasons of her life as she explores the vast terrain of the heart and its power to hold and heal.
Be Still My Heart is a living journey of poetry inspired by the seasonal cycles of life. It is offered to meet you in those moments where truth lies only in the messages of your heart. Moving through the cycles of retreat and repair, where solace is found in the innermost quietude...
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An unflinching shapeshifter, Beast at Every Threshold dances between familial hauntings and cultural histories, intimate hungers and broader griefs. Memories become malleable, pop culture provides a backdrop to glittery queer love, and folklore speaks back as a radical tool of survival. With unapologetic precision, Natalie Wee unravels constructs of "otherness" and names language our most familiar weapon, illuminating the intersections of queerness,...
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This collection of Japanese haiku by an American expat is an important contribution to the world of poetry. Edith Shiffert, called by Poetry Nippon "one of Kyoto's living nation-and international- treasures," here writes brief poems in the form of traditional Japanese haiku for each month of the year. Taken as a whole, the poems describe an American woman's twenty five-five year sojourn in KyotoThe poems, over 350 in all, are beautifully complemented...
12) Brothel #9
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A deal has been, struck between two men in India-twenty-one hundred rupees in exchange for a young village woman named Rekha. Sent to Calcutta without knowing why, Rekha finds herself in the confines of a brothel with Jamuna, a prostitute and madam, who is, resigned to her trade. In these conditions, Rekha must shape her destiny and find inner liberty.
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"Wear poetry as both perfume and armor."
Wong's words and artistry are both vibrant with color, richly textured, defiant, and unapologetic in their boldness.
Her speaker begins her spiritual journey of remembrance that transcends body, tradition, or even nation in the pursuit of authentic art that is, constructed through the radical acceptance of the past in order to leave it all behind.
Turning to Wallpaper is a story where no wounds are, left...
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SPEAK YOUR DARKNESS is the second poetry collection in the Emotions series by Kess Costales, a Filipino-Canadian author and poet. These pieces surround her personal experience with depression, anxiety, and social phobia. The first section, IN THE DARK, deals with the painful thoughts and feelings that rise up, as-a-result of such mental illnesses/disorders. The second section, IN THE LIGHT, then looks at a place of recovery and healing, self-love...
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Harpreet Kaur, writing under her pen name 'Rizak Kaur,' offers a soul-stirring collection of poetry that seeks to awaken the inherent power of love and authenticity within each reader. This book is not just a collection of poems; it's an invitation to embark on a transformative journey towards living a heart-centered life, radiating compassion, and embracing your unique essence.
At the core of this book lies the philosophy that each individual...
16) Tell Your Truths
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TELL YOUR TRUTHS is the third installation of the EMOTIONS series of poetry collections by Kess Costales. The themes of this collection focus on identity and the different aspects of it, which include: 1) heritage (as a Filipino-Canada), 2) heart (as a queer woman), 3) health (as an experience of chronic conditions and other issues of well-being), and 4) healing (through acceptance of these identities).
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Women's writing has become the focus of academic discourse in present times. There are books on women in Indian English literature and there are books on Indian literature in translation but there is not yet a book that foregrounds Women in Indian writing by women. I take this approach because I feel there is a need to understand and study Indian literature as an unsegregated whole, in the light of Indian sensibility. That is what precisely, my book...
18) She Celebrates
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Book of short stories based on festivals of India, along with recipes for each festival. Written by women of Indian origin from around the world.
'She Celebrates' is a potpouri of Indian festivals, fiction and food. In India, the thread of culture is tied and knotted together by festivals. They are diverse as the people who embrace and embody them. Festivals from an integral part of an Indian person's life, carried by them wherever they live. This...
19) Haiku for Haters
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Think you hate haiku? Think again!
Perfect for those who hate to read wordy poetry, Haiku For Haters contains only 24 painless pages of 5-7-5s.
If you think you hate haiku, let this brief collection of modern haiku change your mind, with subjects as diverse as pop-star Prince to Chairman Mao and rowdy (even literary) revolution.
No boring nature poetry here, kids—this ain't your mama's haiku collection!
This is the first in the "Haiku For You"...
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Essays on the island and its history and traditions from the National Book Award–winning author of The Woman Warrior. In these eleven thought-provoking pieces, acclaimed writer and feminist Maxine Hong Kingston tells stories of Hawai'i filled with both personal experience and wider perspective. From a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and numerous other honors, the essays in this collection provide readers with a generous sampling of Kingston's...
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