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  • Poems 2020: Translation from Russian, Polish and Japanese, Notes and Commentary Quick View
    • Poems 2020: Translation from Russian, Polish and Japanese, Notes and Commentary Quick View
    • Poetry, World Literature, World Literature from Europe, World Literature from Japan
    • Poems 2020: Translation from Russian, Polish and Japanese, Notes and Commentary

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    • Translation from Russian, Polish and Japanese, Notes and Commentary by Roger Pulvers. THE YEAR 2020 was the year the world turned inward. We may have stayed at home, but this was a time to look deeply inside ourselves to find connections that we carry in us with all people all around the world. ACCLAIMED AUTHOR and translator Roger Pulvers recorded…
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  • The Boy of the Winds Quick View
    • The Boy of the Winds Quick View
    • Poetry, World Literature, World Literature from Japan
    • The Boy of the Winds

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    • with other stories and poems by Miyazawa Kenji and works by Mori Ogai, Ishikawa Takuboku, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Dazai Osamu, and Inoue Hisashi. Translation from Japanese and Commentary by Roger Pulvers. MIYAZAWA KENJI remains not only Japan’s most popular and beloved writer of stories for children and adults but a prescient voice for this century on how we can survive and…
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  • The Illusions of Self: Tanka by Takuboku Ishikawa, with notes and commentary Quick View
    • The Illusions of Self: Tanka by Takuboku Ishikawa, with notes and commentary Quick View
    • Poetry, World Literature, World Literature from Japan
    • The Illusions of Self: Tanka by Takuboku Ishikawa, with notes and commentary

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    • Tanka by Takuboku Ishikawa Translated from the Japanese, Notes and Commentary by Roger Pulvers. Roger Pulvers' translations - with detailed notes and commentary - of Japan's greatest tanka poet, Takuboku Ishikawa, is now available here for the first time in this volume. Each tanka - a poem that in Japanese has thirty-one syllables - is a microcosm of the human…
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  • Arise out of the Lock Quick View
    • Arise out of the Lock Quick View
    • Poetry, World Literature, World Literature from South Asia
    • Arise out of the Lock

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    • 50 Bangladeshi Women Poets in English  Translated by Nabina Das and curated by Alam Khorshed    "So often South Asian poetry feels to me like a body with severed limbs, all inaccessible to each other. This anthology is both healing of that and a recognition; with the very force of its thought and its omnivorous cosmopolitanism, it will defy every…
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  • Wholly Esenin: Poems by Sergei Esenin Quick View
    • Wholly Esenin: Poems by Sergei Esenin Quick View
    • Poetry, World Literature, World Literature from Europe
    • Wholly Esenin: Poems by Sergei Esenin

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    • Translated from the Russian, Notes and Commentary by Roger Pulvers. "If you want to know how Russians feel about their country, read the poetry of Sergei Esenin. "The 'old plank bridge' spans not only eras but centuries; not only one Russia with another, but Russia with the rest of the world." So writes acclaimed author and translator Roger Pulvers about…
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  • Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring Quick View
    • Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring Quick View
    • Poetry, World Literature, World Literature from Southeast Asia
    • Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring

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    • Witness poems and Essays from Burma/Myanmar (1988-2021)  edited by Ko Ko Thett and Brian Haman  Fallen innocents on blood-stained streets. The defiant banging of pots and pans echoing in the darkness. The birth of a springtime revolution amidst the interrupted lives of a country and its people. On the morning of 1 February 2021, a coup d’état was initiated by…
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