Book Description
An introduction by the poet and translator Sam Hamill, the editor of this collection, and short biographies of the poets are included."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Sam Hamill
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Love poetry, Japanese
ISBN : 1570629765
An introduction by the poet and translator Sam Hamill, the editor of this collection, and short biographies of the poets are included."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Evan Bates
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0486145662
This original selection of verses from the time-honored collection of Japanese poetry reflects the many facets of love, from paeans to conjugal love to descriptions of fierce competition for spouses. Text is in English only.
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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0834824973
Written by court princesses, exiled officials, Zen priests, and recluses, the 150 poems translated here represent the rich diversity of Japan’s poetic tradition. Varying in tone from the sensuous and erotic to the profoundly spiritual, each poem captures a sense of the poignant beauty and longing known only in the fleeting experience of the moment. The translator has selected these five-line tanka—one of the great traditional verse forms of Japanese literature—from sources ranging from the classical imperial anthologies of the eighth and tenth centuries to works of the early twentieth century.
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Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Alan Cummings
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,38 MB
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781468308600
Haiku poems about the natural world and the seasons are well known, but many poets have also used the haiku genre to capture the fleeting human experience.
Author : Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1462920691
**Chosen for 2020 NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels List** **Winner of 2020 Northern Lights Book Award for Poetry** **Winner of 2019 Skipping Stones Honor Awards** My First Book of Haiku Poems introduces children to inspirational works of poetry and art that speak of our connection to the natural world, and that enhance their ability to see an entire universe in the tiniest parts of it. Each of these 20 classic poems by Issa, Shiki, Basho, and other great haiku masters is paired with a stunning original painting that opens a door to the world of a child's imagination. A fully bilingual children's book, My First Book of Haiku Poems includes the original versions of the Japanese poems (in Japanese script and Romanized form) on each page alongside the English translation to form a complete cultural experience. Each haiku poem is accompanied by a "dreamscape" painting by award-winning artist Tracy Gallup that will be admired by children and adults alike. Commentaries offer parents and teachers ready-made "food for thought" to share with young readers and stimulate a conversation about each work.
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Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 1998-04-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 146291649X
"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.
Author : Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811201803
The lyrical world of Chinese poetry in faithful translations by Kenneth Rexroth.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 1988-06-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780879512408
The Manyoshu is the great literary work of eighth century Japan, a collection comprising work from more than four hundred writers. Its richness and nobility of sentiments have made the Manyoshu an object of literary fascination for centuries. Ten Thousand Leaves is a selection of love poems from this magnificent anthology,selected and translated by world renowned scholar Harold Wright and complemented by spectacular period art.
Author : Eliot Weinberger
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811218376
“Rexroth’s readings from the Japanese master poets are breathtaking in their simplicity and clarity.”—The New York Times I go out of the darkness Onto a road of darkness Lit only by the far off Moon on the edge of the mountains. —Izumi Shikobu Over the years, thousands of readers have discovered the beauty of classic Japanese poetry through the superb English versions by the great American poet Kenneth Rexroth. Mostly haiku, these poems range from the classical and medieval to modern poetry, with an emphasis on folk songs and love lyrics. Because women played such an outstanding role in Japanese literature, included here are selections from their work, including the contemporary, deeply sensuous Marichiko. This elegant, beautifully designed gift book of poems spanning many centuries presents the original texts in romanji, the transliteration into the Western alphabet.