December 22, 2024 6:40 pm

I WRITE THE WORD “MUTE”: Poetry, by Nathan Shepherdson

I WRITE THE WORD “MUTE” I write the word ‘mute’ into the condensation on the window. I breath across it again and write your name. Then lick the letters off the glass, pretending my tongue is a mop for souls. We have the evenness of our hands, to survey the unevenness of our lives. (Nathan Shepherdson) http://www.amazon.it/Sweeping-Light-Back-Into-Mirror/dp/0702235695

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MAN TIGER: Romance, by Eka Kurniawan

MAN TIGER A thousand voices of Indonesia, in a novel. Modernity and ancestral beliefs, in the darkness of a family, in a small town. A murder, wrapped from abuse and magic, and the life of Margio, a human being from the liminal existential dimension. Also a white tiger, gets inside the pages of the novel, and in the life of …

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I WANT TO: Poetry, by Djoko Damono

I WANT TO I want to love you with simple way; with words that the wood didnt get to say to the fire which burn it into ashes I want to love you with simple way; with cues that the cloud didnt get deliver to the rain that make it disappear. (Djoko Damono) http://www.amazon.com/Suddenly-night-poetry-Sapardi-Damono/dp/9798083008

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CHEHELSALEGHI / A FORTY YEARS: Romance, by Nahid Tabatabai

CHEHELSALEGHI / A FORTY YEARS Forty years. Iranian women, seen through the eyes of the writer. Reading the novel you will not find chador blacks, and even jealous men, but the female, the age of forty years, in Tehran. Observe women educated and combative, mothers and wives, in the charm of a beauty no longer age. You will also discover …

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THE DEEP NIGHT: Poetry, by Forough Farrokhzad

THE DEEP NIGHT I speak from the depths of the night, from the depths of darkness, and from the depths of the night. I speak, if you come to my house, man. Bring a light and a window, I can look through, the happy crowd in the alley. (Forough Farrokhzad) http://www.amazon.com/Sin-Selected-Poems-Forugh-Farrokhzad/dp/1557289484

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OLEANDER GIRL: Romance, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

OLEANDER GIRL Reading this novel, you will know Karobi, a serious girl and stubborn, who grew up with his grandparents. On the threshold of her wedding, she decides to get to know its origins, in the United States. A month’s time, a private investigator, the relationship with her boyfriend that it cracks. As often happens, the meeting with an investigator’s …

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THE LOOKING GLASS: Poetry, by Kamala Das

THE LOOKING GLASS Getting a man to love you is easy, only be honest about your wants as woman. Stand nude before the glass with him, so that he sees himself the stronger one, and believes it so, and you so much more, softer, younger, lovelier. Admit your admiration. Notice the perfection of his limbs, his eyes reddening under the …

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SKY, WIND AND STARS: Novel, by Yun Dong-ju

SKY, WIND AND STARS His imprisonment and eventual death in 1945 in a Japanese prison lend great poignancy to his work. His poems sing of his love for his people, his compassion for the poor and destitute, and his hopes for freedom and independence. Yun Dong-ju was a poet of the utmost purity, beauty, and sincerity. “Wishing not to have …

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