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From the bestselling author of 'Poetry of a Geisha' and 'Forbidden Memoirs' Elizabeth Itō, a third collection of sensual poems set within the traditional style of Japanese Haiku poetry.With Elizabeth Itō's background as a former geisha on the allegorical cobbled streets of the Far East, 'These Unknown Pleasures' plays invitation to the mysteries of desire and satisfactions hidden from view for centuries behind ornate lacquered wooden doors and blinds.Following on from Itō's first and second volumes of sensual Haiku 'And So... My Back Arched' and 'Of Kimono's Raise', comes a collection of poetry offering an insight into a life of fulfillments encountered, as well as a prompt towards the reader's own longings, yearnings of the heart waiting to be revealed, released, and revelled within.