Nineteen different translations of a single poem with comments on each version by Eliot Weinberger and introduction contributed by Octavio Paz.

Poetry aficionados will appreciate this beautifully designed and illustrated collection of 200 haiku by the four most celebrated Japanese poets of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries: Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki, who modernized the form and coined the very... [More...]

This unique collection spans over 400 years (1488-1902) of haiku history by the greatest masters, in translations by top-flight scholars of the field. Haiku (distilled poems featuring 17 syllables) command enormous respect in Japan. Now readers of poetry in... [More...]

Brimming with insights, and featuring sparkling new translations of 50 of the most superb haikus ever written, this opulent collection captures the spirit of the form and opens up its beauty to a whole new audience. Haiku emerged within a great flowering of... [More...]

Among the most gifted and controversial writers to emerge from the massive upheavals in modern China, Bei Dao both reflects and criticizes the conflicts of the Cultural Revolution of the late sixties and seventies.

This authoritative, bilingual edition represents the first time the entirety of Cold Mountain's poetry has been translated into English.
Legendary for his clarity, directness, and lack of pretension, the eighth-century hermit-poet Cold Mountain (Han Shan)... [More...]

Awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1913, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is considered the most important poet of modem-day India. He is prized along with Mahatma Gandhi as a foremost intellectual and spiritual advocate of India's liberation from... [More...]

Throughout his eventful life as a monk, poet, novelist, political dissident, husband, and father, Ko Un has remained a traveler on the Way. The poems in this collection, though strictly within the true Zen tradition, are as witty and down-to-earth as they... [More...]