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Back Roads To Far Towns
Basho's Travel Journal
Av Basho
Häftad, 2004
149 kr
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Basho (1644-1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. He made his living as a teacher and writer of Haiku and is celebrated for his many travels around Japan, which he recorded in travel journals. This translation of his most mature journal, Oku-No-Hosomichi, details the most arduous part of a …
Heaven My Blanket, Earth My Pillow
Poems from Sung Dynasty China by Yang Wan-Li
Av Yang Wan-Li
Häftad, 2004
149 kr
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The poems of Yang Wan-Li (1127-1206), esteemed as one of the masters of Southern Sung poetry, reflect the magnificent landscape paintings of Sung China. His work is full of humanity and a zest for living, expressed in direct, unadorned language.
Zen Forest
Zen Sayings
Häftad, 2004
148 kr
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The essence of Zen is contained in the phrases and poems presented here, along with an introduction by Gary Snyder. The sayings range from profound to mystifying to comical and appear in vivid, poetic English. First compiled in 15th century Japan, the book contains Zen phrases and verses taken from …
There is No Road
Proverbs by Antonio Machado
Häftad, 2003
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"Traveler, there is no road; you make your path as you walk". While others suggest taking the road less travelled, Antonio Machado suggests that we each make our own road. In this series of brief poems Machado utilises traditional Spanish verse forms to create a wide ranging collection of …
Haiku Master Buson
Av Buson
Häftad, 2007
177 kr
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This is the only translation of the work of this important haiku poet in English. Buson (1716-1783), along with Basho and Issa, is recognised as one of the three Japanese masters of the haiku. In addition to a large selection of haiku, the book also includes a selection of Buson's prose and a …
10,000 Dawns
The Love Poems of Claire and Yvan Goll
Av Yvan Goll, Claire Goll
Häftad, 2004
172 kr
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Published in France in 1951 and appearing for the first time in English, this volume also reproduces the eight drawings by Marc Chagall that appeared in the original. "Goll loved a real woman...it may be that Goll will be remembered most for these ...love poems unique in modern poetry..." -- Paul …
Unswept Path
Contemporary American Haiku
Av John Brandi, Dennis Maloney
Häftad, 2005
159 kr
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"The Unswept Path" offers a diverse gathering of American poets who have chosen the haiku as one of the forms in which they write. Each of these poets has worked the territory of the haiku into a personal landscape, and they offer a panorama of images and sounds, joy and sadness, recollection and …
Pilgrim of the Clouds
Poems and Essays from Ming Dynasty China
Häftad, 2005
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"With this volume, Chaves makes an outstanding contribution to the books that present classical Chinese poetry in both accurate and enjoyable English translation."-Choice Yuan Hung-tao (1568-1610) was the greatest poet of Ming dynasty China. His poetry and essays brilliantly exhibit an originality …
Because of the Rain
An Anthology of Korean Zen Poetry
Häftad, 2006
146 kr
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This selection of Korean Zen poems, spanning twelve centuries, distils the essence of Korean Buddhism. The poets range from Great Master Wonhyo (617-686), the founder of Korean Buddhism, to Choeui Eusoon (1786-1866), a hermit-monk whose poems address the monk's primary goal of seeking …
Simmering Away
Songs from the Kanginshu
Häftad, 2006
143 kr
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A lovely gift book of songs of love and wisdom drawn from the classic Japanese poetry collection, the "Kanginshu"; interspersed with sumie drawings.
White Crane
Love Songs of the Sixth Dalai Lama
Häftad, 2007
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A poetry and life unique in the lineage of the Dalai Lama. The sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso (1683-1706), refused to take full monastic vows and returned to the world, loving alcohol, archery, and women with a passion that perhaps suggests he had a premonition of his early death at the age of …
Shape of Light
Av James Wright
Häftad, 2007
146 kr
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The fruits of the season, James Wright's luminous prose captures eternal moments in his travels through Italy and France.
Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India
Poems from Ancient India
Häftad, 2008
156 kr
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Two thousand years have passed since the first of these poems were composed. A new introduction prefaces this expanded edition of Andrew Schelling's remarkable translations.
Majestic Nights
Love Poems of Bengali Women
Häftad, 2008
154 kr
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How do Bengali women love in times of social transition and political upheaval? These poems look at how Bengali women tell their truths of the heart and mind through their struggles for equality, opportunity, and recognition in a changing society. The poems follow a subtle trajectory through the …
Breaking the Willow
Poems of Parting, Exile, Separation & Reunion
Häftad, 2008
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This is a wonderful collection of classic Chinese poems on the themes of parting and exile. The poems capture brief meetings between poet friends over a jug of wine, the lament of lovers parting, and the seclusion of the hermit. One can smell the incense smoke, hear the night rain on an autumn …
Secret Gardens of Mogador
Voices of the Earth
Häftad, 2009
154 kr
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"Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry, and intelligence in a new geometry of words...His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity."-Octavio Paz "In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again …
Between the Floating Mist
Poems of Ryokan
Av Ryokan
Häftad, 2009
172 kr
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Ryokan (1758-1831) was a poet, master calligrapher, Zen hermit, and is one of the most beloved poets of Japan. Instead of becoming the head of a Zen temple, he preferred the simple and independent life of a hermit. Ryokan's poetry is simple, direct, and colloquial in expression.
Finding the Way Home
Poems of Awakening and Transformation
Häftad, 2010
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Good poetry contains the kind of knowledge we search for, the kind that resonates in the heart as well as the mind. The poems in this anthology are timeless, spanning two millenniums, and are drawn from many different centuries and cultures. The voices range from ancient China, Japan, and India to …
Searching for Guan Yin
Av Sarah Truman
Häftad, 2011
149 kr
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"Sarah Truman's closely observed jaunt in China and Tibet offers some priceless scenes, from trying to hilarious. How lucky she is to be watched over in her travels by the gentle, lively Bodhisattva of Compassion Kwan Yin."Sandy Boucher, author of Discovering Kwan YinSarah E. Truman explores a …
Poetics of Wonder: Passage to Mogador
Passage to Mogador
Häftad, 2014
168 kr
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"The most moving, beautiful, and eloquent expression of wonder in literature. If there has been anything new in recent literature of any type it is this undefinable book: poetry, short tales, and intelligence in each paragraph. A delight."--Jeanne Teixidor Alberto Ruy-Sanchez is an award-winning …
Mountain Tasting
Häftad, 2015
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Mountain Tasting gathers a wide cross section of haiku and a selection of the diaries of the wandering Japanese poet, Santoka (1882-1940). Santoka lived his life in the long zen hermit wandering poetic tradition of Japan that includes Basho, Ryokan and Saigyo. His zen practice was that of solitary …
House By Itself: Selected Haiku of Shiki
Häftad, 2017
156 kr
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"Shiki's distinctive vision and direct expression make a tone recognizably his own, conveyed beautifully in these pages' translations. We hear Shiki's haiku as the voice of a friend bringing complex news in a few intimate words. These haiku are drawn from a world that feels close to our own, and …
Unexpected Development
Av Klaus Merz
Häftad, 2018
172 kr
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Merz is keenly attentive to daily life as a revelator of essentialtruths, and thus uses poetry as a way of returning closer to it; and“to unbecome what was.” Merz' “nearing” and “distancing” processestake place inside us, through language. By summing up so gently andexactly (but also sometimes …
Precious Mirror
Häftad, 2018
168 kr
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A true companion for the journey, Precious Mirror, combines Kobun Chino’s brilliant calligraphy with translations of the poems into English enface. Kobun Chino Otogawa was an instrumental figure in the transmission of Zen to America and its evolution within our culture. Although he came to assist …
Taken to Heart: 70 poems from the Chinese
Häftad, 2022
179 kr
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These seventy poems are masterpieces from over a thousand years of classical Chinese poetry. Beauty and simplicity meld to convey an astounding landscape with both enchanting details and breath-taking vastness. The poems constitute an anthology, given to Chinese school children as a text to aid …
