The following haiku verses, written in an American style, are departures from the exacting nature of this Japanese poem. By relaxing the restraints upon subject and style, the American poet gains the opportunity to experiment with and to possibly enhance the classic European examples. Although Japanese savants differ about the precise poetics of haiku, they agree that these short poems, highly successful since the thirteenth century, should be c ...
This collection of haiku poetry from Bernard Lionel Einbond is a spectacular.Part one includes Rising Darkness, Countenances of the Poor, and The Coming Indoors, then part two concludes with Insomnia in Haiku Form. Each poem expressed paints a simple mental picture of each experience with Bernard:-The bright one starin the black wide sky…observethe old wise owl.-Have you ever heardthe sound of snowflakes fallingon the snow? Listen. ...
This collection of unconventional Zen poetry by Ken Noyle reflects the free-spirit of Zen.Here is poetry as mod as flower children and hippies; a Warhol happening or sitar music. Ken Noyle is a «personal» poet who immediately demands his reader to be with him or agin him as he ruminates on many things he thinks are important.Those things include sex and marriage and God and nature and war and the position of the individual in relation to each. P ...
This collection of Japanese haiku by an American expat is an important contribution to the world of poetry.Edith Shiffert, called by Poetry Nippon «one of Kyoto's living nation—and international— treasures,» here writes brief poems in the form of traditional Japanese haiku for each month of the year. Taken as a whole, the poems describe an American woman's twenty five-five year sojourn in KyotoThe poems, over 350 in ...
"The Halfords' book is an achievement. For the first time ever, any Westerner who reads English can obtain a real insight into the plots and stories, the texts and characteristics of Kabuki dramas, and in terms which a Western-trained mind can readily understand. For this the entire Kabuki world must be grateful." <b>— From the Foreword by Faubion Bowers, author of <i>Japanese Theatre</i> and <i>Theatr ...
Awarded 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 is prized as a foremost intellectual and spiritual advocate of India's liberation from imperial rule. <br><br>This inspiring collection of Tagore's poetry re ...
A new interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, this book is a celebration of the Way of Harmony and Balance. Ray Grigg transforms what has been traditionally called the Tao Te Ching, what he calls the Lao Tzu, from the mysterious to the meaningful. He accomplishes this by abandoning the historical convention of a literal reading of the Chinese texts. The result is a poetic expression of ancient wisdom in a language that readers can approach directly. ...
A Year of Japanese Haiku in English Verse.Harold Stewart is an Australian poet who lives in Kyoto. His first anthology of Japanese haiku was published as A Net of Fireflies. This is his second. He has also written Phoenix Wings, Orpheus, and New Phoenix WingsPraise for Chime of Windbells:"…a beautifully printed and bound book … an exquisite gift for any occasion and should also be considered for poetry collections and librari ...
Penumbra —Michael Shewmaker’s debut collection—explores the half-shadows of a world torn between faith and doubt. From intricate descriptions of the rooms in a dollhouse, to the stark depiction of a chapel made of bones, from pre-elegies for a ghostly father, to his compelling treatment of his obsessed, human characters (a pastor, a tattoo artist, a sleepwalker, to name only a few), these are poems that wrestle with what it means to believe in ...
