Genre: Poetry
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Ryokan, Zen monk-poet of Japan
Consists chiefly of translations of selected Japanese and Chinese poems, the former with romanized Japanese text in parallel columns.
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Dusk lingers : haiku of Issa
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Dewdrops on a lotus leaf : Zen poems of Ryokan
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The Zen fool Ryokan
Includes English translations of selected Japanese and Chinese poems along with the original text and romanized Japanese for the former.
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Poems of a penisist
“In the name of / Man, member, / and the holy fluid, / Amen,” begins Mutsuo Takahashi’s epic one-thousand-line erotic fantasy poem, “Ode,” the centerpiece of his groundbreaking collection of queer poetry, Poems of a Penisist. Takahashi’s work, reminiscent of Walt Whitman’s, is a celebration of the male body, treating homosexual desire as something sacred.…
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On two shores : new and selected poems
Poems.
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Narrow road to the interior and other writings
The most complete single-volume collection of the writings of one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Basho (1644-1694) – who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty – is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of…
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Basho’s Narrow road : spring & autumn passages : two works
Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan’s greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet’s five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo, the work is in fact artful and carefully sculpted, rich in literary…
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The spring of my life : and selected haiku
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), along with Basho and Buson, is considered one of the three greatest haiku poets of Japan, known for his attention to poignant detail and his playful sense of humor. Issa’s most-loved work, The Spring of My Life, is an autobiographical sketch of linked prose and haiku in the tradition of Basho’s famous…
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America & other poems
Winner of the 2004 U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature from the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University. Poems.