Zen Poetry by Lucien Stryk
This anthology, jointly translated by a Japanese scholar and an American poet, is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind to appear in English. Their collaboration has rendered translations both precise and sublime, and their selection, which span 1,500 years, from the early T ang dynasty to the present day, includes many poems that have never before been translated into English. Stryk and Ikemoto offer us Zen poetry in all its diversity: Chinese poems of enlightenment and death, poems of the Japanese masters, many haiku the quintessential Zen art and an impressive selection of poems by Shinkichi Takahashi, Japan s greatest contemporary Zen poet. With Zen Poetry, Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto have graced us with a compellingly beautiful collection, which in their translations is pure literary pleasure, illuminating the world vision to which these poems give permanent expression.Lucien Stryk is the author and editor of over two dozen volumes of poetry, translations, and edited collections, many of which have won awards.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780802134073 |
| ISBN 10 | 0802134076 |
| Title | Zen Poetry |
| Author | Lucien Stryk |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Year published | 1995-03-09 |
| Number of pages | 124 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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