Jalaloddin Rumi’s Masnavi-ye Ma’navi, or ’Spiritual Couplets’, composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poe......more

Jalaloddin Rumi’s Masnavi-ye Ma’navi, or ’Spiritual Couplets’, composed in the 13th Century, is a monumental work of poe......more

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The Mystery of Death and the Spark of the Self is the first monograph on the emergence of the lyric "I" in East Slavic a......more

The Mystery of Death and the Spark of the Self is the first monograph on the emergence of the lyric "I" in East Slavic a......more

One hundred and six poems of self-reflection and exquisite beauty--an intoxicating blend of Seon Buddhism and French Sym......more

A poignant collection of Osip Mandelshtam’s poetry, full of a piercing nostalgia for a better world and bearing bitter w......more

Three generations later, and still World War II looms large in the daily lives of a Japanese family. Japan’s dual role a......more

After reading these poems, you may never look at your cell phone in quite the same way again. Xu Lizhi was a young poet ......more

A powerful act of remembrance and resistance, 70,000 transforms cultural erasure into a living, breathing archive of gri......more

In ghost stories and family history, this lyrical memoir explores mercy as resistance to generational violence In this l......more

The Tang Dynasty poet Hanshan ("cold mountain") and his friend Shide ("foundling") are among the most iconic figures in ......more

A collection of translated Japanese waka-poems, including text collage and haibun-style discourses on translation. Of Wo......more

This imaginative and accessible study of the lyrical, humorous, social and educational aspects of classical Persian poet......more

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A selection of the exquisite, passionate verse of the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, superbly translated into English ......more

First published in 1984, Shrikant Verma’s masterpiece takes its name from the ancient Indian kingdom of Magadh, which ro......more

When Sleep Journeys first appeared in 1981, it took the Urdu poetry world by storm. Now considered one of the finest con......more

The first English translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic of Russian Émigré life With great wit and warmth, Alexan......more

Winner of 2024 Sarabande 2024 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Edward Salem’s Intifadas is a subversive collection abo......more

A new collection of work from Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz that includes previously untranslated poems written during h......more

Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry is a personal guide to global poetry in translation by 25 th U.S. Poet Laureate ......more

My Deepest Desire is Tamiki Hara’s final work, published posthumously after his tragic suicide in 1951. A short yet grip......more

My Deepest Desire is Tamiki Hara’s final work, published posthumously after his tragic suicide in 1951. A short yet grip......more

A debut English-language collection from an award-winning contemporary Korean poet. Light Mesh, Choi Jeongrye’s final bo......more

Winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award, selected by Alberto Ríos Overtakelessness is a powerful reckon......more

"Invaluable. . . . [What] comes across in these translations is the verve and immediacy of the poems’ occasions."--Seamu......more

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A Love Letter to the Unsayable: Xiaoxuan Huang’s all the time Speaks Through Gaps, Echoes, and Ellipses Blending poetic ......more

The volume provides a fresh look at contemporary Arabic literature on the experiences of migration, forced displacement ......more

Once the exclusive domain of the aristocracy, classical Japanese poetry (waka) underwent a remarkable transformation in ......more

A translated volume containing masterworks by an award-winning poet. Sharron Hass’s award-winning poetry is distinctive ......more

Lyric Poetry as State Criticism in Modern Japan explores how seemingly apolitical verse became a subtle vehicle for poli......more

A haunting, lyrical meditation on memory, loss, and homeland, with the poems threading together the personal and the col......more

"A landmark book that will redefine Nakahara’s place on the international stage." --Paul Perry, novelist and poet This d......more

A reinvention of visual poetry and personal history charting exile’s impact on memory, identity, and futurity Intellectu......more

A poetic journey through five decades of Karnataka’s history, this collection brings K. S. Nisar Ahmed’s timeless verses......more

A bilingual anthology of contemporary poetry by forty women poets from eleven Arab nations. A project of the Her Story I......more

Is Is Enough begins in heritage and harmony then breaks apart into the strange world and tautly stretched emotions that ......more

A poetry and illustrations anthology by The Moon From Where We Stood (2024) author known as Melhem Hasan. On Irreplicabl......more

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Singular poetry made through censorship, elusion, and language renewal The astonishing poetry collection The Hell of Tha......more

History remembers Du Fu (712-70) as the Confucian poet-sage, but why would he abandon his official post to wander the re......more

This collection of poems features some of the voices that were persecuted for the power of their words. The poetry cries......more

In this debut collection in English, one of China’s most famous poets offers biting musings on politics, ideologies, and......more

I Am the Wounded Victim of a Suicide Bomber presents a selection of poems, translated into English and including the Per......more

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Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs’ offers fifteen essays on the triptych of poetry + translation + Chine......more

Hyakunin’shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan explores the "popular literary literacy" of the Japanese at th......more

From Ferdowsi to Rumi and Hafiz, poetry has played a central role in the historical Iranian cultural imagination. How ha......more

The Classic of Poetry (Shijing), also known as the "Mao Poetry" (Mao Shi), is the oldest existing collection of poetry i......more

A prominent Hindi poet’s compelling testament to the struggles and resilience of India’s marginalized communities. A voi......more

What happens when a two-thousand-year-old language rooted in a classical poetics of land moves, along with some of its p......more

In mid-fourteenth-century Japan, amid decades of civil unrest caused by a violent rivalry over imperial succession, thre......more

Ancestral Daughter is a poignant collection of free-verse poetry by Palestinian writer Zeina Jhaish, exploring themes of......more

Completed in 1258, Sa’di’s Gulistan (’The Rose Garden’) contains a wide-ranging selection of stories, anecdotes and poem......more

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A collection of poems from a changing Bedouin world Bedouin Poets of the Nafūd Desert features poetry from three poets o......more

From Ghalib’s Delhi and Ezekiel’s Bombay to Kolatkar’s Pune and Utpal Kumar Basu’s Calcutta; from Sarojini Naidu’s Hyder......more

This collection of one hundred poems, composed between 1986 and 1996 by Mamazzad Ahmed Choudhury (Babu), offers readers ......more

"Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi are to be deeply thanked for having given us with such articulate care a poetry m......more

"Translated with both grace and precision, the poems are elegant expressions of the depth of human emotion." --William S......more

Pisang mas di-atas peti, Ada dua biji bekembar; Cakap menulis kita mesti, Baru Hidop Bahasa Baba * * * * * A comb of gol......more

A neighbourhood containing Singapore’s oldest public housing estates, a catchphrase for the dream of equitable distribut......more

12 months of quiet contemplation with beautiful and relaxing photography and poetry. A fine new art calendar from Flame ......more

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Poems about life in the Chinese factories by a brilliant and passionate poet and workers’ rights activist. This collecti......more

Revolutions sifts through the grains of Muslim daughterhood to reveal two metaphorical circles inextricably overlapping:......more

This collection of poems features some of the voices that were persecuted for the power of their words. The poetry cries......more

Immerse yourself in the timeless wisdom of Rumi, one of the greatest mystical poets of all time. This beautifully crafte......more

Yuan Haowen (1190-1257) is one of the greatest Chinese poets of the past eight hundred years. He is especially famous fo......more

Aleksandr Tvardovskii was not only one of the finest, most popular and most important poets of his epoch, but also the e......more

This is my Abbu...my father. I never used to call him Abbu ... I love to call him by this name in my memories of him...a......more

Sayumi Kamakura’s Applause for a Cloud uses the haiku form to attend to everyday life with a cosmological acuteness, inv......more