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The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jan
Archipelago Books 2004; US$ 14.00Brilliant translations of the work of one of ancient China's most influential poets. An early Taoist master. more...
Moving Poetry
Hong Kong University Press 2001; US$ 24.00One book to be read two ways! This is a delightful collection of children's poems and includes ideas on inspiring creativity in young people. 160 children took part in poetry writing workshops led by a group of Hong Kong's foremost poets. Their poems shed an intriguing light on life in Hong Kong, seen by a new generation. more...
The Last of China's Literati
Hong Kong University Press 2008; US$ 40.00In this biography of Tsar The-yun, centenarian poet, calligrapher, and qin master, Yung tells the story of a life steeped in the refined arts faithful to the traditional way of the Chinese literati. more...
Japanese Haiku
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 14.95This is the most authoritative and concise book on Japanese haiku available: what it is, how it developed, and how it is practiced in both Japanese and English. While many haiku collections are available to Western readers, few books combine both translated haiku with haiku written originally in English, along with an analysis of individual poems... more...
The Heart of God
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 8.95Awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1913, Rabindranath Tagore (1861— 1941) is considered the most important poet of modern-day India. He was also a distinguished author, educator, social reformer, and philosopher. Today, Tagore along with Mahatma Gandhi are prized as the foremost intellectual and spiritual advocates of India's liberation... more...
Little Songs of the Geisha
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 12.95A fascinating look into the world of the Geisha through the 400-year-old art of Ko-Uta, the traditional song form sung to three-stringed shamisen music. A vivid evocation of the romanticism of feudal Japan. more...
Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 29.99Compiled by a leading scholar of Chinese poetry, Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown is the first collection of Chan (Zen) poems to be situated within Chan thought and practice. Combined with exquisite paintings by Charles Chu, the anthology compellingly captures the ideological and literary nuances of works that were composed, paradoxically, to... more...
How to Read Chinese Poetry
Columbia University Press 2007; US$ 35.99In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi , sao , fu , ci , and qu poems. A comprehensive introduction and extensive thematic table of contents... more...
Extreme Poetry
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 54.99Beginning in the sixth century C.E. and continuing for more than a thousand years, an extraordinary poetic practice was the trademark of a major literary movement in South Asia. Authors invented a special language to depict both the apparent and hidden sides of disguised or dual characters, and then used it to narrate India's major epics, the Ramayana... more...
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each
Columbia University Press 2008; US$ 25.99Compiled in the thirteenth century, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu is one of Japan's most quoted and illustrated works, as influential to the development of Japanese literary traditions as The Tale of Genji and The Tales of Ise . The text is an anthology of one hundred waka poems, each written by a different poet from the seventh century to... more...









