Love Poems from the Japanese

Love Poems from the Japanese PDF Author: Sam Hamill
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1570629765
Category : Love poetry, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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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.

Love Poems from the Japanese

Love Poems from the Japanese PDF Author: Sam Hamill
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1570629765
Category : Love poetry, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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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.

Japanese Love Poems

Japanese Love Poems PDF Author: Evan Bates
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486145662
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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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.

Only Companion

Only Companion PDF Author:
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834824973
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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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.

The Ink Dark Moon

The Ink Dark Moon PDF Author:
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Japanese Death Poems

Japanese Death Poems PDF Author:
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 146291649X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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"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.

Ten Thousand Leaves

Ten Thousand Leaves PDF Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780879512408
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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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.

Haiku Love

Haiku Love PDF Author: Alan Cummings
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781468308600
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
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.

One Hundred Poems from the Japanese

One Hundred Poems from the Japanese PDF Author: Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201810
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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A collection of Japanese poems accompanied by their English translations.

One Hundred Poems from the Chinese

One Hundred Poems from the Chinese PDF Author: Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223868
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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The lyrical world of Chinese poetry in faithful translations by Kenneth Rexroth. The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries—Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty (731-770)—his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions. They are as simple as they are profound, as delicate as they are beautiful. Thirty-five poems by Tu Fu make up the first part of this volume. The translator then moves on to the Sung Dynasty (10th-12th centuries) to give us a number of poets of that period, much of whose work was not previously available in English. Mei Yao Ch'en, Su Tung P'o, Lu Yu, Chu Hsi, Hsu Chao, and the poetesses Li Ch'iang Chao and Chu Shu Chen. There is a general introduction, biographical and explanatory notes on the poets and poems, and a bibliography of other translations of Chinese poetry.

Love Haiku

Love Haiku PDF Author: Patricia Donegan
Publisher: Shambhala
ISBN: 1611801885
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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An exquisite collection of love poems in a striking gift book format--published just in time for Valentine's Day. Haiku is celebrated as a concise form of poetry able to convey a singular moment with great clarity. While haiku most often depicts the natural world, when focused on the elements of love and sensuality, haiku can be a powerful vehicle for evoking the universal experience of love. In this elegant anthology, love is explored through beautiful images that evoke a range of feelings--from the longing of a lover to the passion of a romantic relationship. Written by contemporary Japanese poets as well as by haiku masters such as Basho, Buson, and Issa, these poems share not only the haiku poets' vision for love, but their vision of the poignant moments that express it.