Poetry : Asian

This unique collection presents the verses, much of it translated for the first time, of fourteen eminent Chinese Buddhist poet monks. Featuring the original......

A beautiful collection of 'Japanese Haiku' poetry depicting snap shots of moments in every day life, including the natural beauty that surrounds us. Experien......

This 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 Engli......

What makes Hyeyoung Kim's poems distinguished is a lively poetic language based on her intellectual assets and critical thinking in her works. Her poetry in ......

Wild Waters Never Sleep is an all new and best of collection of poetry from the author of From the Igloo Confessional, Winterland, and Venom and Nectar; Stef......

'Red is the colour of the flame's heart. Red is where the heat begins. It's red you touch when you reach through the hotter, later hues for the origin of...

In Garden Haiku: Raising Your Child with Ancient Wisdom, author Lily Wang gives parents spiritual guidelines for raising happy, respectful, and resourceful c......

The Tang Dynasty was the golden age of Chinese poetry, and Bo Juyi is generally acclaimed as one of China’s greatest poets. For him, writing poetry was......

Despair and hope are two emotions commonly voiced by poets in the Man'yoshu, the oldest and most important collection of Japanese poetry. Although written ov......

Beata Grant renders a great service by recovering and translating the enchanting verse — by turns assertive, observant, devout — of forty-eight nun......

Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry and known to......

Edith Shiffert, called by Poetry Nippon 'one of Kyoto's living national-and international-treasures,' here writes brief poems in the form of traditional Japa......

"These poems are a unique incantation of the psychic being, always tangibly in front." -Rod Hemsell, poet Dream Threshold is the second volume in a poetic t......

A Hundred Verses from Old Japan, being a translation of the Hyaku-nin-isshiu, was originally collected in the thirteenth century. One of the most popular ant......

Compiled by a leading scholar of Chinese poetry, Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown is the first collection of Chan (Zen) poems to be situated within Chan tho......

Beginning 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 mov......

Presenting more than two hundred of the greatest haiku ever written about the game.One of the most unusual baseball books of the 2007 season, this remarkable......

This book of tanka, an ancient style of Japanese poetry, includes essays written to accompany and complement the poems. The short essays included here provid......

Mirabai is a literary and spiritual figure of legendary proportions. Born a princess in the region of Rajasthan in 1498, Mira (as she is more commonly known)......

Milarepa, Tibet's renowned and beloved saint, wandered the terrain of eleventh-century Tibet, guiding countless followers along the Buddhist path. Milarepa's......