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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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Dating from the eighth century and earlier, the Manyoshu is the oldest Japanese poetry anthology. The 1,000 poems chosen for this famous selection were chosen by a distinguished scholarly committee based on their poetic excellence, their role in revealing the Japanese national spirit and character, and their cultural and historical significance. Text is in English only.
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Rajani: Songs of the Night (1916) is a poetry collection by Dhan Gopal Mukerji. Published while Mukerji was a young student in California, Rajani: Songs of the Night is the debut collection of poems from the first Indian writer to gain a popular audience in the United States. Lyrical and romantic, Mukerji's poems capture his commitment to beauty while maintaining his sense of isolation and exile as a young man living far from home. In "Bhikshu's Song,"...
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One of the last great names in the Japanese ukiyo-e style, Utagawa Kuniyoshi was an undisputed master of the warrior woodblock print. Born in Tokyo in 1797, his talent became evident by the tender age of 12, when he became an apprentice to a famous print master. Starting out with vivid illustrations of cultural icons-including Kabuki actors and Japanese heroes-he moved on to a unique treatment of warrior prints, incorporating elements of dreams, omens,...
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This poem was born on a hilltop in Vietnam in 1967. It concerns the experiences both of its author and the Vietnamese people. Its many fragments came together into final form twenty-five years later. The length of time it took to develop this elegy is a testament to the enduring impact of the Vietnam conflict on our national psyche and the men and women who served there.This is not a pro-war poem. Rather, it is an attempt to look honestly at the impact...
47) Modern Asian Art
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The Guggenheim Reader Series: Modern Asian Art is the second installment in an ongoing series collecting out-of-print and hard-to-find essays from past Guggenheim publications and lectures to illuminate focused topics in art history. Much like last fall's Russia reader, Modern Asian Art examines five decades of the museum's interest in the region, culminating in this spring's simultaneous presentation of four separate exhibitions on Asian art in the...
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Authoritative reference deals primarily with animal symbolism in Japanese art, with occasional mention of the decorative art of China, India, and Persia. Arranged in the format of a dictionary, the explanatory text is rich with sidelights from literature and legend, while 673 black-and-white illustrations depict dragons, tigers, bats, and other creatures with symbolic significance.
49) Brunizem
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'Brunizem' is a dark prairie soil found in Asia, Europe, and North America, the three worlds of Sujata Bhatt's imagination. Born in India, her mother tongue Gujarati, Bhatt was educated in the United States and now lives in Germany. In Brunizem, her acclaimed first collection, she explores the richness and the conflicts of moving between cultures and languages, in poems that are passionate, direct, and eloquent. In 1994 'Search for My Tongue' was...
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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...
52) Iegoism
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Features more than thirty articles by Michael Andrew Law in the proposal of iEgoism - an artistic viewpoint article, in order to use our history to make [the Hong Kong original style art tradition] and [the high-context translation to low-context] concept to the creation of thought process to Pale Hair Girls painting series , ten years creative process in written documentary , from their own experiences to explore the art of how to understand the...
53) Echoes of Haikai
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Echoes of Haikai comprises 75 original westernized Japanese poems whose spirit remains faithful to (e.g., echo) the traditional Japanese poetry intents and origins.
Haikai has been defined broadly as any of the forms of Japanese literature (haiku, renku, senryu, haibun, diaries and travel writings, zuihitsu, and tanka or waka). While there may be guidelines and norms, surprisingly there are no rigid forms for haikai. Western haikai writers have been...
54) Coming Up
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An illiterate and poor community of tea pickers in Assam slowly undergoes change as education breaks into their ranks. Coming Up is a remarkable story of resilience. One determined family breaks the shackles of an exploitative social order setting up an example for everybody else.
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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...
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Because so many Chinese artworks have been ravaged by time, the only way to really understand their history and significance is to turn to writings by the painters themselves or by contemporary critics. That is what Osvald Sirén has done in this classic book, with eye-opening results. One of the first Western studies to systematically cover the more than two thousand years of Chinese art, this book by a modern expert considers a wide range of topics,...
58) Junto al Pásig
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Junto al Pásig expresa las profecías de Rizal acerca de una Filipinas esclava de los poderes imperialistas. La obra dramática de José Rizal se limita a dos obras teatrales, cada una de un acto que comprende una presentación de más o menos treinta minutos. Fueron escritas cuando el autor tenía diecinueve años y estudiaba en la Universidad de Santo Tomás. Junto al Pásig está escrita en el tradicional romance de octosílabos, propio del Siglo...
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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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Cho Oh-Hyun was born in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province, Korea and has lived in retreat in the mountains since becoming a novice monk at the age of seven. Writing under the Buddhist name Musan, he has composed hundreds of poems in seclusion, many in the sijo form, a relatively fixed syllabic style similar to Japanese haiku and tanka. This collection of 108 Zen sijo poems (108 representing the number of klesas, or "defilements," one must overcome...
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