A collection of poems inspired by despair, grief, and disintegration, while simultaneously celebrating joyous healing and redemption. "Any reader cannot help but be mesmerised...
The 600 verses presented in this anthology provide comprehensive and varied aspects of sijo, the traditional Korean lyric, since its emergence as a fixed literary form as early as...
A companion volume to Classical Korean Poetry, this anthology provides an overview of modern, 20th century Korean poetry. Jaihun Kim is a well known poet and an award winning translator...
The Beat poets, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Boroughs, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Michael McLure, Diane Di Prima and others, constituted a major...
A collection of modern, mindful poetry by American, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean and Tibetan writers, encompassing song lyrics and Zen calligraphy. Contributors include Allen...
Begun in 1956 this is Gary Snyder's long-awaited epic of geology, prehistory, and mythology. The poem travels beyond Western traditions to encompass Asian art and...
Stephen Mitchell, a longtime Zen student, is recognized as an outstanding translator of poetry. This anthology contains Buddhist and Taoist poetry, writings...
The ancient Chinese regarded the written word as a transformative force able to move heaven and earth and able to unite the reader with the source of all things and...
Learning to see with the eyes of the ancient Chinese sages can change your view of the universe, as David Hinton demonstrates. He takes us on a series of walks...
A collection of Rumi`s four-line poems from his premier English translators. The Rumi master Rumi's short poems have many tones and effects: some of them are quick,...
A collection of the finest poems, paintings and calligraphy of Kodojin (1865-1944). In the literary and artistic milieu of early modern Japan, where...
Begun in 1953, this represents a key volume in Jack Kerouac's vast autobiographical canon. In time it evolved into an all-encompassing work of non-fiction into which he poured his life,...