Cold Mountain Poems
Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-chih
Written by Han Shan
Translated by J.P. Seaton
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: July 21, 2009
Price: $18.95
The incomparable poetry of Han Shan and his sidekick Shih Te, the rebel poets who became icons of Chinese poetry and Zen, newly translated and annotated by premier translator J. P. Seaton.
Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, China’s “outsider” poets Han Shan (known as...
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Du Fu
A Life in Poetry
Written by Fu Du
Translated by David Young
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $16.95
Du Fu (712–770) is one of the undisputed geniuses of Chinese poetry—still universally admired and read thirteen centuries after his death. Now David Young, author of
Black Lab, and well known as a translator of Chinese poets, gives us a sparkling new translation of Du Fu’s verse, arranged to give us...
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Poems of the Late T'ang
Translated by A.C. Graham
Format: Trade Paperback, 184 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2008
Price: $14.95
Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional intensity. A. C. Graham’s slim but indispensable anthology of late T’ang poetry begins with Tu...
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Chinese Erotic Poems
Edited by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $12.50
The ancient Chinese tradition of erotic poetry has been largely ignored in the west. Now, a vast continent of sensual verse is opened to us with this glorious collection spanning nearly three thousand years and including many poems never before translated into English.
Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping have brought together...
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Only Companion
Japanese Poems of Love and Longing
Translated by Sam Hamill
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $9.95
Written by court princesses, exiled officials, Zen priests, and recluses, the 150 poems translated here represent the rich diversity of Japan’s poetic tradition. Varying in tone from the sensuous and erotic to the profoundly spiritual, each poem captures a sense of the poignant beauty and longing known only in the fleeting...
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The Healing Spirit of Haiku
Written by David H. Rosen and Joel Weishaus
Illustrated by Arthur Okamura
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2004
Price: $14.95
For David H. Rosen and Joel Weishaus, haiku represents a healing union of intuition and sensation, past and present, self and other, ordinary and extraordinary, and current and ancient memories. In this simple, compelling book, the authors, who have lived and traveled extensively in Japan, offer 172 haikus that resonate with...
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