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(Winston-Salem, North Carolina): Wake University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Orange cloth boards. Illustrated with color plates. Fine in a very good dustwrapper with dampstain on bottom edges. Winner of the Poetry Book Society Translation Award.
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- Title The Mirror Wall
- Author Richard Murphy
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First
- Pages 82
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wake Forest University Press
- Date 1989-10
- ISBN 9780916390365 / 0916390365
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.83 x 5.66 x 0.51 in (22.43 x 14.38 x 1.30 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Sigiriya (Sri Lanka) - Poetry, Sri Lanka - Antiquities - Poetry
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89040363
- Dewey Decimal Code 821.914
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Wake Forest University Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 5x0x8. Signed by Author. Gift inscription by and signed by author; scarce thus. Halfway up the remote fortress of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is a long wall of polished plaster, with mysterious golden women painted on the rock above, who seem to be dancing in the clouds. Twenty of these frescoes have survived since the end of the fifth century. The Mirror Wall,â as itâs called, is covered with graffiti: hundreds of songs relating to these cloud nymphs, composed by nobles, merchants, travelers and Buddhist monks during the eighth, ninth and tenth centuries. These songs or lyrics were sung, probably with vina, flute and drums, in the gallery beneath the portraits, where the words were written on the wall: love poems, satires, and curses; happy, witty, ironical, and sad celebrations of beautiful, erotic, festive, and sometimes painful experiences. Richard Murphyâs poems were…
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