Purple Desire of the Islands: New and Selected Poems

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Muhammad Haji Salleh

Muhammad Haji Salleh, one of Malaysia's leading and poets, is unusual in that, as he says in his preface, he finds inspiration from more than one language; in his case English and Malay. He has also translated Neruda's Twenty Five Love Poems and a Song of Despair. This collection includes both his own translations into English of many of his Malay poems as well as poems of his originally written in English. 311 pages. 

Weight: 0.5kg. Post free within Malaysia

Published by Institut Terjemahan Negara Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 2016

ISBN: 9789674603366

Condition: New. Paperback.