Books like Poems of love and war by A. K. Ramanujan

Rainer Maria Rilke’s Book of Hours collects his intimate love poems to God, forged after a transformative journey to Russia and reflecting the looming darkness of the twentieth century.

An epic tale of friendship, immortality, and the search for wisdom in ancient Mesopotamia.

Retired bureaucrat runs a guesthouse by India's sacred Narmada River, where lives collide— a young executive tangled with a mysterious lover, an ascetic in reincarnation, and a Jain monk shedding wealth for poverty.

"Two prominent translators present the first complete English-language edition of one of India's greatest works of classical literature: the Purananuru. This anthology of four hundred poems composed by more than 150 poets in old Tamil - the literary language of ancient Tamilnadu - was compiled between the first and third centuries C.E. before Aryan influence had penetrated the south; it is thus a unique testament to pre-Aryan India."--BOOK JACKET. "Reflecting accurately and profoundly the life of southern India 2,000 years ago, the Purananuru is immensely important both as a literary work and as a guide to the development of South Asia's history, culture, religion, and linguistics. One of the few classical Indian works that confronts life without the insulation of a philosophical facade, making no basic assumptions about karma and the afterlife, the Purananuru has universal appeal. The poems face the world as a great and unsolved mystery, delving into living and dying, despair, love, poverty, and the change able nature of existence."--BOOK JACKET.