Purple Desire Of The Islands New And Selected Poems

• Main Author: Muhammad Haji Salleh 1942- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Wangsa Maju Institut Terjemahan & Buku Malaysia Berhad (ITBM) 2016
• Series: Malaysian literature series
• Subjects: Muhammad Haji Salleh > 1942-; Malay poetry > Translations into English
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"all things are 'poetic' to me, all are legitimate subjects for this wonderfully flexible verse form. things and events that i live with and experience, whick touch me visually or emotionally, light up certain frames of existence, insight or meaning. they are recreated as the centre o...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : a present of green batel
• New poems
• The blue petals of a sustainability (2013)
• A drop of blood in the oval room (2008)
• An emerald by the murmuring straits (2006)
• Reaching (2004)
• The snows of shibuya (2004)
• Time's alphabet (1998)
• If or and then (1988)
• Fire on the lake (1996)
• From the other side of the self (1982)
• Poems from the malay annals (1981)
• About the author
• Glossary