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Book SynopsisProvides an annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines.Trade Review"[A] book of manners for the debauched. Its readers in the late Ming period likely hid it under their bedcovers."--Amy Tan, New York Times Book Review Praise for Volume 1: "[I]t is time to remind ourselves that The Plum in the Golden Vase is not just about sex, whether the numerous descriptions of sexual acts throughout the novel be viewed as titillating, harshly realistic, or, in Mr. Roy's words, intended 'to express in the most powerful metaphor available to him the author's contempt for the sort of persons who indulge in them.' The novel is a sprawling panorama of life and times in urban China, allegedly set safely in the Sung dynasty, but transparently contemporary to the author's late sixteenth-century world, as scores of internal references demonstrate. The eight hundred or so men, women, and children who appear in the book cover a breath-taking variety of human types, and encompass pretty much every imaginable mood and genre--from sadism to tenderness, from light humor to philosophical musings, from acute social commentary to outrageous satire."--Jonathan Spence, New York Review of Books Praise for Volume 1: "Racy, colloquial, and robustly scatalogical, [this translation] could only have been done now, when our literary language has finally shed its Victorian values. David Tod Roy enters with zest into the spirit and the letter of the original, quite surpassing ... earlier versions."--Paul St. John Mackintosh, Literary Review Praise for Volume 1: "Reading Roy's translation is a remarkable experience."--Robert Chatain, Chicago Tribune Review of BooksTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii CAST OF CHARACTERS xv CHAPTER 21 Wu Yueh-niang Sweeps Snow in Order to Brew Tea; Ying Po-chueh Runs Errands on Behalf of Flowers 3 CHAPTER 22 Hsi-men Ch'ing Secretly Seduces Lai-wang's Wife; Ch'un-mei Self-righteously Denounces Li Ming 30 CHAPTER 23 Yu-hsiao Acts as Lookout by Yueh-niang's Chamber; Chin-lien Eavesdrops outside Hidden Spring Grotto 43 CHAPTER 24 Ching-chi Flirts with a Beauty on the Lantern Festival; Hui-hsiang Angrily Hurls Abuse at Lai-wang's Wife 62 CHAPTER 25 Hsueh-o Secretly Divulges the Love Affair; Lai-wang Drunkenly Vilifies Hsi-men Ch'ing 80 CHAPTER 26 Lai-wang Is Sent under Penal Escort to Hsu-chou; Sung Hui-lien Is Shamed into Committing Suicide 100 CHAPTER 27 Li P'ing-erh Communicates a Secret in the Kingfisher Pavilion; P'an Chin-lien Engages in a Drunken Orgy under the Grape Arbor 127 CHAPTER 28 Ch'en Ching-chi Teases Chin-lien a out a Shoe; Hsi-men Ch'ing Angrily Beats Little Iron Rod 150 CHAPTER 29 Immortal Wu Physiognomizes the Exalted and the Humble; P'an Chin-lien Enjoys a Midday Battle in the Bathtub 166 CHAPTER 30 Lai-pao Escorts the Shipment of Birthday Gifts; Hsi-men Ch'ing Begets a Son and Gains an Office 194 CHAPTER 31 Ch'in-t'ung Conceals a Flagon after Spying on Yu-hsiao; Hsi-men Ch'ing Holds a Feast and Drinks Celebratory Wine 214 CHAPTER 32 Li Kuei-chieh Adopts a Mother and Is Accepted as a Daughter; Ying Po-chueh Cracks Jokes and Dances Attendance on Success 242 CHAPTER 33 Ch'en Ching-chi Loses His Keys and Is Distrained to Sing; Han Tao-kuo Liberates His Wife to Compete for Admiration 261 CHAPTER 34 Shu-t'ung Relies upon His Favor to Broker Affairs; P'ing-an Harbors Resentment and Wags His Tongue 282 CHAPTER 35 Harboring Resentment Hsi-men Ch'ing Punishes P'ing-an; Playing a Female Role Shu-t'ung Entertains Hangers-on 309 CHAPTER 36 Chai Ch'ien Sends a Letter Asking for a Young Girl; Hsi-men Ch'ing Patronizes Principal Graduate Ts'ai 345 CHAPTER 37 Old Mother Feng Urges the Marriage of Han Ai-chieh; Hsi-men Ch'ing Espouses Wang Liu-erh as a Mistress 360 CHAPTER 38 Hsi-men Ch'ing Su jects Trickster Han to the Third Degree; P'an Chin-lien on a Snowy Evening Toys with Her P'i-p'a 382 CHAPTER 39 Hsi-men Ch'ing Holds Chiao Rites at the Temple of the Jade Emperor; Wu Yueh-niang Listens to Buddhist Nuns Reciting Their Sacred Texts 404 CHAPTER 40 Holding Her Boy in Her Arms Li P'ing-erh Curries Favor; Dressing Up as a Maidservant Chin-lien Courts Affection 438 APPENDIX Translations of Supplementary Material 453 NOTES 473 BIBLIOGRAPHY 577 INDEX 605

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Book SynopsisThe ten plays in this collection offer unprecedented grassroots perspectives on the jubilation, terror, hope, and heartbreak of mass uprising as seen during and in the wake of the Tahrir Square demonstrations. Collectively tracing events as they unfolded in Egypt from the last days of Hosni Mubarak's regime through Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's ascendance to the presidency, the plays present a picture of Egypt in the midst of epochal change, with all the attendant fear, hope, and uncertainty. Ranging from naturalism to documentary to more avant-garde representations, the plays collected in Tahrir Tales represent contemporary Egyptian drama at its most interesting, and, not coincidentally, most politically, committed.

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Book SynopsisNewcastle’s most notorious riot lives on in the lyrics of Cold Chisel’s 1980 song Star Hotel, grainy YouTube videos and Novocastrian mythology. But beneath thecompelling images of surging crowds, hurled beer cans and flaming police cars was a radical intent that has been all but forgotten …The Star Hotel in Newcastle has become a site of defiance for the marginalised young and dispossessed working class. To understand the whole story of the Star Hotel riot, it should be seen alongside other moments of resistance, Newcastle-style, such as the 1890 Maritime Strike, the Rothbury miners’ lockout in 1929 and the recent battle for the Laman Street fig trees. Radical Newcastle brings together short essays from academics, local historians, journalists and present-day radicals to document the region’s radical past.

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Book SynopsisText with facing translation of the Scandinavian versions of the Tristan legend. This is the first in a set of three volumes making available for the first time critical editions and translations of important medieval Arthurian texts from Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Devoted to the Tristan legend. It contains Geitarlauf and Janual, Old Norse translations of the French lais Lanval and Chevrefeuil; Tristrams saga ok Isöndar, Brother Thomas's Old Norse translation of Thomas's Tristan, dated 1226 and commissioned by King Hákon Hákonarson the Old of Norway; "Tristrams kvædi", a fourteenth-century Icelandic "Tristan" ballad; and the Saga af Tristram ok Isodd, a fourteenth-century Icelandic version of the Old Norse Tristrams saga ok Isöndar. The translators are: ROBERT COOK, PETER JORGENSEN, JOYCE HILL, MARIANNE E. KALINKE. Professor MARIANNE KALINKE teaches in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Trade ReviewA welcome resource... Validates its texts as a significant corpus of Arthuriana and will appeal to a wide readership of medievalists. * SAGA-BOOK OF THE VIKING SOCIETY *A major contribution, not only to the Old Norse field, but to the broader world of medieval literature and culture... will endure for years to come. * SPECULUM *Those responsible for bringing out this series have performed a service to readers, showing how mediaeval Scandinavia dealt with the matter of Britain. * SCANDINAVICA *Provide access to some of the most important Norse versions of French Arthurian narrative ... a very valuable service... will make this corpus of Arthurian literature better known to a non-specialist readership. * SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES *

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Book SynopsisThis is the first anthology to present the full range of the many forms evil. Amelie Rorty has assembled a collection of readings that include not only the most common forms of evil, such as vice, sin, cruelty and crime, but also some which are less well known, such disobedience and willfulness. The readings are drawn from a rich array of historical, philosophical, theological, literary, dramatic, psychological and legal perspectives. Amelie Rorty''s introductions to the readings sets each one in context and makes the anthology essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of evil.Table of Contents1. From Disobedience to Disorder Includes readings: The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Old Testament, Thucydides, Seneca, Hans Jonas, Gershon Scholem 2. From Sin to ViceSt Augustine, Abu Hamid Al-Ghazli, Peter Abelard, Moses Maimonides, Pope Innocent III, Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer 3. Evil as WilfullnessLuther, Calvin, Milton, Jonathan Edwards 4. Containing LawlessnessMachiavelli, Hobbes, Butler 5. The Irrationality of WaywardnessLeibniz, Manderille, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant 6. The Romanticism of EvilGoethe, Blake, Hawthorne, Baudelaire, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche 7. The Banality of Evil: The Cruelty of Everday LifeDostoyevsky, Engels, Einstein, Freud, Hannah Arendt, Michael Stocker, Amelie Rorty, Amos Oz 8. Conflict, Immorality and Crime 'War and Murder', Elizabeth Anscombe; 'Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands', Michael Walzer; 'The Nature of Immortality', Jean Hampton

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Book SynopsisKen Kesey (1935-2001) is the author of several works of well-known fiction and other hard-to-classify material. His debut novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, was a critical and commercial sensation that was followed soon after by his most substantial and ambitious book, Sometimes a Great Notion. His other books, including Demon Box, Sailor Song, and two children's books, appeared amidst a life of astounding influence. He is maybe best known for his role as the charismatic and proto-hippie leader of the West Coast LSD movement that sparked ""The Sixties,"" as iconically recounted in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. In the introduction to ""An Impolite Interview with Ken Kesey,"" Paul Krassner writes, ""For a man who says he doesn't like to do interviews, Kesey certainly does a lot of them."" What's most surprising about this statement is not the incongruity between disliking and doing interviews but the idea that Kesey could possibly have been less than enthusiastic about being the center of attention. After his two great triumphs, writing played a lesser role in Kesey's life, but in thoughtful interviews he sometimes regrets the books that were sacrificed for the sake of his other pursuits. Interviews trace his arc through success, fame, prison, farming, and tragedy--the death of his son in a car accident profoundly altered his life. These conversations make clear Kesey's central place in American culture and offer his enduring lesson that the freedom exists to create lives as wildly as can be imagined.

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Book Synopsis‘Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy’ - Candis A heartwarming new Christmas novel from Debbie Macomber, internationally bestselling author of Rose Harbor in Bloom, Blossom Street Brides and Starry Night. Experience the true meaning of Christmas… Jane Patterson thought her marriage to Cal would last forever until it suddenly came under threat. Jane has left, taking their children with her, but can she really leave Cal behind? Especially when all she hopes for is a reunion, just in time for Christmas… On December 24th, a crowded train is taking holiday travellers home for Christmas. Then a snowstorm hits, leaving this group of strangers stranded. Now they must band together and as they do they’re reminded of what Christmas really means. Make time for friends. Make time for Debbie Macomber.

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Book SynopsisThis selection of Blunden's prose about the First World War includes the complete text of De bello germanico, his first, lively sketch of the war as he lived it in 1916.

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Book SynopsisSixteen all-new stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award-winning editor Gardner Dozois   From pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain” to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra, the planet Venus has loomed almost as large in the imaginations of science fiction writers as Earth’s next-nearest neighbor, Mars. But while the Red Planet conjured up in Golden Age science fiction stories was a place of vast deserts and ruined cities, bright blue Venus was its polar opposite: a steamy, swampy jungle world with strange creatures lurking amidst the dripping vegetation. Alas, just as the last century’s space probes exploded our dreams of Mars, so, too, did they shatter our romantic visions of Venus, revealing, instead of a lush paradise, a hellish world inimical to all life.   But don’t despair! This new anthology of sixteen original stories by some of science fiction’s best writers—edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois—turns back the clock to that more innocent time, before the hard-won knowledge of science vanquished the infinite possibilities of the imagination.   Join our cast of award-winning contributors—including Elizabeth Bear, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, Mike Resnick, Eleanor Arnason, Allen M. Steele, and more—as we travel back in time to a planet that never was but should have been: a young, rain-drenched world of fabulous monsters and seductive mysteries.   FEATURING ALL-NEW STORIES BY   Eleanor Arnason • Elizabeth Bear • David Brin • Tobias S. Buckell • Michael Cassutt • Joe Haldeman • Matthew Hughes • Gwyneth Jones • Joe R. Lansdale • Stephen Leigh • Paul McAuley • Ian McDonald • Garth Nix • Mike Resnick • Allen M. Steele • Lavie Tidhar   And an Introduction by Gardner Dozois

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Book SynopsisIn forest clearings, beneath star-filled skies, in cathedrals, and before the hearth, women and men have always given voice to the impulse to celebrate the world that surrounds and sustains them. This title collects poems, prayers and writing from authors, leaders in spiritual thought and traditional offerings from people around the world.Trade ReviewThrough this extraordinary collection of prayers from all the world and from all historical periods we finally awaken to the presence of the divine that comes to us through the Earth and the entire natural world. -- Joanna Macy, author of Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age A treasure! Belongs on the bookshelf of everyone who loves our precious Planet Earth. -- Hazel Henderson, author of The Politics of the Solar Age Through this extraordinary collection of prayers from all the world and from all historical periods we finally awaken to the presence of the divine that comes to us through the Earth and the entire natural world. -- Thomas Berry, author of The Dream of the Earth

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Book SynopsisThe Fathers is the powerful novel by the poet and critic recognized as one of the great men of letters of our time.Old Major Buchan of Pleasant Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia, lived by a gentlemen’s agreement to ignore what was base or rude, to live a life which was gentle and comfortable because it was formal.Trade ReviewA masterpiece of formal beauty … deserves to be recognized as one of the most outstanding novels of our time. * The New Statesmen *Great novel of the broken South. * The New Statesmen *A psychological horror story … concerned with life rather than death, with significance rather than with futility.The story displays so much imagination and such a profound reflection upon life that it cannot be neglected by anyone interested in contemporary literature.It is one of the most remarkable novels of our time … The Fathers is in fact the novel Gone with the Wind ought to have been.

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Book SynopsisThis comics anthology collects some of the best creator-owned work of some of the very best mid-century cartoonists: Ditko, Frazetta, Kurtzman, Wood, and many more.The ultimate witzend anthology, collecting some of the best creator-owned work of some of the very best mid-century cartoonists.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe two convent chronicles by Diodata Malvasia tell the story of Bologna’s most famous religious icon, the Madonna of San Luca, and of the struggle of convent women with authorities over its control. The earlier chronicle includes epistolary exchanges between the convent and civic and ecclesiastical authorities — extraordinary examples of the art of persuasion and eloquent documents of the interconnectedness of convent and secular life. Callegari and McHugh provide an accurate, clear and elegant English translation, with introduction and notes that provide an indispensable guide to the times, the characters and events portrayed; they give us a unique voice from Renaissance Bologna, an important cultural center under-represented in contemporary research on women’s history and literature. Elissa B. Weaver Professor Emerita of Italian Literature, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 1A Note on the Translation 31A Brief Discourse on What Occurred to the Most Reverend Sisters of theJoined Convents of San Mattia and San Luca from the Year 1573 (1575) 33The Arrival and the Miraculous Workings of the Glorious Image of theVirgin Mary Painted by Saint Luke, through the Year 1616 (1617) 67AppendixPoems by Malvasia in the Arrival, in Italian and English 121Dedicatory Letter from Santi Riccetelli, Cronica di tutto il successo[Chronicle of All That Occurred] (1574) 126Dedicatory Letter from Leandro Alberti, Cronichetta della gloriosaMadonna di San Luca, accresciuto da un ReverendissimoReligioso [Short Chronicle of the Glorious Madonna ofSan Luca, Augmented by a Most Reverend Religious] (1579) 127Bibliography 129Index 137

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"...the changing image of the Mountie and the fate of Mountie fiction can tell us much about Canadian popular culture, the law, the changing West and the individual hero." Montreal Gazette

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Book SynopsisA useful companion for those travelling to Sicily, this work is part of a series that is a collection of writing, aiming to invest the traveller with a cultural and historical background to Sicily.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Buscaglia's Spanish-English edition of Siguenza y Gongora's greatest work is a magnificent illustration of what the fields of history and literature can offer when they are brought together. And it is fun to read, to boot! The text takes readers on a fascinating, whirlwind tour through the interlocking worlds of seventeenth-century Mexico and Southeast Asia." -- Camilla Townsend * author of Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico *“Buscaglia-Salgado’s bilingual edition of Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez/The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez is an essential contribution. Multi-faceted and meticulously researched, it situates the story in the context of a global history of empires and piracy, opening new channels for further analysis and research. Deftly deciphering documents in colonial archives, questioning editorial practices, sketching maps, and revisiting his own sailing voyages, Buscaglia-Salgado has tracked Ramírez’s routes, uncovering some of the mysteries surrounding the protagonist and making visible a global historical process.” -- Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones * Princeton University *Table of ContentsTable of Contents In the Footsteps of Alonso Ramírez: A decade in pursuit of the most elusive American pirate Maps and Illustrations Acknowledgements Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez About the translation To the most excellent gentleman don Gaspar de Sandoval Cerda Silva y Mendoza Approval of the licentiate [in canonic law] don Francisco de Ayerra Santa María, chaplain of the King our lord in his Royal Convent of Jesús María in Mexico [City]. Summary of licenses Motives he had for leaving his home country. Jobs [he had] and travels he made through New Spain. Of his presence in México until crossing over to the Philippines. He leaves Acapulco for the Philippines . An account of the route of this voyage and of how he spent the time until he was captured by the English. A summary is given of the plundering and cruelties carried out by these pirates on land and sea until arriving in America. He is set free by the pirates and he remembers what he endured as their captive. Alonso Ramírez, and his shipmates, sails without knowing where they were or where they were going. The troubles and frights they suffered until running aground are retold. Thirst, hunger, disease, and death that aggrieved them in this coast. Unexpectedly they find Catholic folk and know themselves to be in Yucatan, on the mainland of North America. They go to Tihosuco and from there to Valladolid where they experience hardships. They arrive in Mérida. Alonso Ramírez returns to Valladolid and the hardships are greater. The reason why he came to Mexico City and what resulted from it. The history of the first American of universal standing: How Alonso Ramírez, a.k.a Felipe Ferrer, turned the world on its head by circumnavigating the globe. The discovery of Americanness and the presage of the end to empire Consummate impostors always tell the best piratical stories On motherhood, mentoring and being the best at what you do How Ramírez stole the name and reimagined the character of Felipe Ferrer An American con man takes on the English "King of the Sea" Lost at sea, or sailing the West Indies as an Englishman? The story comes together on the Coast of Bacalar From pirate to slave owner in search of legitimacy Putting to paper what "will be very advisable for the printing press to eternalize" Reader beware If and only "If" Bibliography About the Author Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez Acerca de la transcripción Al excelentísimo señor don Gaspar de Sandoval Cerda Silva y Mendoza Aprobación del licenciado don Francisco de Ayerra Santa María, capellán del Rey nuestro señor en su Convento Real de Jesús María de México Suma de las licencias Motivos que tuvo para salir de su patria. Ocupaciones y viajes que hizo por la Nueva España. [De] su asistencia en México hasta pasar a las Filipinas. Sale de Acapulco para las Filipinas. Dícese la derrota de este viaje y en lo que gastó el tiempo hasta que lo apresaron ingleses. Pónense en compendio los robos y crueldades que hicieron estos piratas en mar y tierra hasta llegar a la América. Danle libertad los piratas y trae a la memoria lo que toleró en su prisión. Navega Alonso Ramírez y sus compañeros sin saber dónde estaban ni la parte a que iban. Dícense los trabajos y sustos que padecieron hasta varar en tierra. Sed, hambre, enfermedades, [y] muertes con que fueron atribulados en esta costa. Hallan inopinadamente gente católica y saben estar en tierra firme de Yucatán en la Septentrional América. Pasan a Tihosuco [y] de allí a Valladolid donde experimentan molestias. Llegan a Mérida. Vuelve Alonso Ramírez a Valladolid y son aquellas [molestias] mayores. Causa por [la] que vino a México y lo que de ello resulta.

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Book SynopsisNight and Day is the third novel in a trilogy tracing the life of Mykola Stepanovych Haievsky.

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Book SynopsisJayadeva's Gitagovínda is a lyrical account of the illicit springtime love affair of Krishna and Radha, a god and goddess manifesting on earth as a cowherd and milkmaid for the sake of relishing the sweet miseries and rapturous delights of erotic love. The narrative framing their bucolic songs was composed under royal patronage in northeastern India in the twelfth century. It was to be performed for connoisseurs of poetry and the erotic arts, for aesthetes and voluptuaries who, while sensually engaged, were at the same time devoted to Krishna as Lord of the Universe. The text at once celebrates the vicissitudes of carnal love and the transports of religious devotion, merging and reconciling those realms of emotion and experience. Erotic and religious sensibilities serve, and are served by, the pleasures of poetry. In the centuries following its composition, the courtly text became a vastly popular inspirational hymnal. Jayadeva''s songs continue to be sung throughout India inTrade Review"Small, elegant books, beautifully printed, sparsely annotated, and bilingual...This arrangement naturally delights students of Sanskrit, who may dispense,at least temporarily, with their dictionaries and grammar books; but you do nothave to know Sanskrit to enjoy reading these volumes." The New Republic

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Book SynopsisMarcelo Morales' The World as Presence / El mundo como ser showcases, for the first time in English, a challenging, bold, and vivid new voice in Cuban literature. Morales directly interrogates both the Cuban past and present. References to many significant moments, people, and issues in Cuban history and culture can be found throughout his work.Trade Review“Through Kristin Dykstra’s superb translation of The World as Presence/El mundo como ser, we see Marcelo Morales’s never-ending need to articulate, to question, and to be awed by what is important to him as intellectual, as citizen, as family member, and poet. While his concerns are often political, philosophical, and global, they are at the same time intricately and inseparably bound to the body and the personal life of the poet. Morales directly interrogates (in a context that does not encourage or support directness) both the Cuban past and present, and through his work we find reference to a number of important markers of Cuban history and culture. An unforgettable presence for the unforgettable tenseness of the present.” —Daniel Borzutzky, author of The Book of Interfering Bodies and The Performance of Becoming Human|“In this book, Morales achieves an impressive and deeply engaging balance, never abandoning a passionate commitment to a philosophical (perhaps phenomenological) investigation of the nature of being and presence, an affirmation of love, and ongoing attention to his family, all the while engaging Cuban political/cultural history up to the present moment. The World as Presence/El mundo como ser is the most insightfully contemporary book of Cuban poetry that I have ever read.” —Hank Lazer, author of Poems Hidden in Plain View, Brush Mind: At Hand, and Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays 1996–2008

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Book SynopsisThis is the first complete English translation in over a century of the ten great jātaka tales covering the Bodhisatta’s final adventures in the human realm before his ultimate life and enlightenment as the Buddha. Introductory comments to each story provide background and analysis. A general introduction explores themes and the stories’ role in Buddhist art and practice. Color images show the stories’ centrality in the Buddhist visual landscape of Southeast Asia.These definitive new translations reestablish the stories as ancient literary treasures of South Asia. Readers will be delighted by their magic and intrigue, philosophical insight, and deep roots in the religious and cultural world of the Buddha.

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