This story is a field of flowers.Silent Symphonies chronicles the return of magic to a dying world.

The House of Incest, Anais Nin's famous prose poem, was first published in Paris in 1936 and immediately drew attention from the era's prominent writers, including Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell. While written in English, it is considered a landmark work in the French surrealist tradition and one of the most unique books in 20th century literature.

Mikel had a good life. As the world's greatest thief he had all the wealth he wanted, though since his need were modest, he gave most of it away. And as he stole from organised crime, he felt no guilt over the act. He celebrated it. Best of all, no one knew of him. No one even knew he existed. so he was safe on his island paradise.Then one night in the middle of a caper an angel came to take him away from all that. She needed him to steal some souls.From Hell!Any sa...

Jayanta Mahapatra needs no introduction.Perhaps any discussion on Indian English Poetry is incomplete without reference to his poeticalworks. Mahapatra holds the distinction of being the first Indian English poet to have received the Sahitya Akademi Award (1981) for the current book "Relationship". "Relationship" reveals Jayanta Mahapatra's great efforts to transform his 'mute inglorious' sufferings which he connects with the sufferings of his nameless ancestors whose great s...

The Demon Flower of Lophai demanded sacrifices for it was not a peaceful and passive flower such as those found on earth.

Evoking hidden worlds, summoning visions and making magic happen, Conjure: A Book Of Spells is filled with vivid images and tantalizing narrative fragments that stir the heart, mind and eye. Echoing the tone and structure of Medieval and Renaissance grimoires, Dubé's unique collection joins surrealist automatism with rigorous formal discipline and offers readers a profound and complex work.

There is a man from a reality similiar to ours, wandering his place in the universe and all its purpose like we do. He lives in a world similiar to us, with green grass and blue sky, sun shining and moon reflecting. This is the story of a man, much like you and me, going trough a symbolic life that was never there and always there at the same time. It is the life itself trough the eyes of a man who loses it all and wins it all, who smiles and cries, who rises and falls, until there is no g...

Twenty-five stories, twenty-five paintings, five years to write, ten years to paint.This is an extraordinary collaboration between artist and artist: the Booker Prize-winning writer Ben Okri and the painter Rosemary Clunie. Together they have created a world, and peopled it with dreams.Twenty-five fairy tales for adults, these narratives are a response to our times, informed by our world but not limited by it, imaginative, enchantin...

A selection of diverse poetry chronologically spanning five decades

'Sharanya's poems are, in her own phrase, a form of phosphorescence - glowing in darkness, simmering with wonder, mythic in resonance, boldly embodied, hence surprisingly spiritful, even spiritual in the finest sense of the word. They are also skeptical and reflective, tempering and enhancing the glowing flame. Riptides of Tamil hide beneath or within her honed English, for those who can hear and see.' - David Shulman. Sita in a forest, loved and left behind, looks towards the night sky an...

Robin Morgan's second collection of poems is a rich tapestry of female experience, both literal and mythicDaughter, wife, mother, lover, artist, and even priestess are all here in shorter lyrics that cluster around four subjects: blood ties, activism and art, love between women, and archetypes. But Morgan surpasses the political grief and rage she delineated in Monster, her acclaimed first book of poems—especially in the four major metaphysical poems here: ...

Made of Stars is an epic poem in prose, a modern ode to the traditions of Homer and Dante, Spenser and Milton. At its core is an ancient tale of love and loss, dark nights and redemption, and, as with those that came before, it is also an attempt to evolve—to dance on furthest edge of all we might experience.