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Adventure. Passion. Justice. Struggle. Revolution. Faith. These words exude the spirit of youth and fill this collection of poems--Daisaku Ikeda's odes to those who are the hope of humanity. With his own youthful spirit evident in every line, the philosopher and peace activist inspires, consoles, celebrates and challenges young people, expressing his deep feelings for them and his undying hope that they will find true meaning in their lives and be...
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Katsushika Hokusai was among the foremost ukiyo-e artists of his generation, and his Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji ranks among the best-known series of Japanese woodblock prints. This edition presents a full-color reprint of that enduring masterpiece, plus the artist's later black-and-white series, One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji. A must for all lovers of Japanese art.
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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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First published in 1883 and written by the foremost authority of the era, this extremely influential book offers a brief but concise introduction to Asian art. One of its major themes, the connections between spirituality and the evolution of Asian art, provided the earliest lucid English-language account of Zen Buddhism and its relation to the arts.
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Shuntaro Tanikawa has been the most inventive modern Japanese poet, ever since he published Two Billion Light Years of Solitude (1952), his first book, aged twenty-one. Undamaged by Japan's post-War trauma, he took up the language and ran with it. He has continued running. When in 1968 his first Collected Poems appeared the critics noted at once his popularity and his refusal to compromise with the negative tones that dominated the poetic palette...
87) Anklets
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Anklets is all about love and lust, zest for life with a sense of excitement, anticipation and energy, chaos and meanderings of a young mind looking for the order within the disorder.
Approaching life as an adventure, the poems have zest exuding enthusiasm, excitement and energy while approaching life.
Anklets contains easy to read and simple to understand poems, the reflective ponderings of a young poet on life, love and spirituality.
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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...
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I had to fight for my existence before I was even out of my mother's womb.
If I didn't stop fighting then, why would I stop now?
What Will People Say follows a South Asian woman's journey through being a daughter, and later a daughter-in-law, within the strict confines of her patriarchal family. Readers watch as the narrator navigates life, trying to find a safe place for herself, until she finally becomes her own hero.
Grappling with the...
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A spiritual journey in nine countries of Fareast. India, Nepal, Myanmar, Lao, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia Everything begins with questions; travels also The roadmap of the traveler who starts his spiritual journey is different, his questions are also Mysterious attractiveness of spiritual way of living from Hindu ashrams to Buddhist monasteries, from Muslim dargahs to Christian churches Legendary atmosphere of hippies ultimate...
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A JOURNEY TO FORGIVENESS AND SELF LOVE
The Beauty in Broken is a deeply personal and touching collection of poems that illuminate the uniquely beautiful journey of healing after the loss of love. This compilation offers a sparkling glimpse into the intricate pathway toward self-love and the complex nature of healing.
The poems within these pages capture the poignant moment of releasing past pain and the realization that you have the power to provide...
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This is a compendium of the author's Indian stage and radio plays: "Slighted Souls" is a poignant love story set in rural Telangana, beset with feudal exploitation of the downtrodden dalits. Besides forcing the dalits to toil in the fields as bonded labor without impunity, the land owning doras had no qualms in reducing the womenfolk of this ilk as sex slaves in the gadis, which leads to an armed resistance engulfing an young couple.
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94) 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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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,...
96) 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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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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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...
99) 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...
100) 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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