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Ghazals of Ghalib; by Mirza Asadullah Khan GhalibThe Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation by Charles TomlinsonNineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot WeinbergerTechnicians of the Sacred by Jerome RothenbergThe Collected Songs of Cold Mountain by Hanshan
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