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The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: From Ancient to Contemporary, The Full 3000-Year Tradition by Tony Barnstone 9780385721981
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385721981Author Tony BarnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)... -
Rumi: Bridge to the Soul: Journeys into the Music and Silence of the Heart by Coleman Barks 9780061338168
RRP: $25.33$16.54This is a book of newly-translated Rumi poems, by the pre-eminent Rumi poet Coleman Barks, to celebrate Rumi's 800th birthday in 2007, the Year of Rumi. The book will have 90 new poems, 82 of them never-before published in any form. Rumi's poetry, in... -
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula K. Le Guin
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807240Author Ursula K. Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Poems Of The Late T'ang by A. C. Graham
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172575Author A. C. GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Dan Leighton
RRP: $29.23$19.11Cultivating the Empty Field is a modern translation of the core of Chinese Ch'an master Hongzhi's Extensive Record.First to articulate the meditation method known to contemporary Zen practitioners as shikantaza ("just sitting") Chinese Zen master Hongzhi... -
I Ching: The Book of Change: a New Translation by David Hinton 9780374536428
RRP: $19.48$13.40In a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching, David Hinton strips this ancient Chinese masterwork of the usual apparatus and discovers a deeply poetic and philosophical text. Teasing out an elegant vision of the cosmos as... -
Awakened Cosmos: The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry by David Hinton
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807424Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Chuang Tzu by David Hinton
RRP: $29.23$17.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619024434Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Poems by Li Po
RRP: $25.33$17.73Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendary carouser, was an itinerant poet whose writing, often dream poems or spirit-journeys, soars to sublime... -
Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan by Kazuaki Tanahashi
RRP: $40.95$27.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804263Author Kazuaki TanahashiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Poems by Wang Wei
RRP: $21.43$15.15Wang Wei, one of Chinese literature's greatest poets, divided his time between the court and his country estate, where he drew inspiration from the mountains and solitude. His poetry affirms his belief in a whole natural order, and his delicately... -
No-Gate Gateway: The Original Wu-Men Kuan by David Hinton
RRP: $35.08$23.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804379Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Chinese Erotic Poems by Everyman
RRP: $23.40$16.46China has a strong and ancient tradition of erotic poetry by both men and women, and this unique collection includes poems from three thousand years ago to the present day, ranging from the highly literary to the sexually explicit - many of them... -
Poetry of the Thirties by Robin Skelton
RRP: $19.48$13.86Auden, Day, Lewis, Spender, MacNeice and the other key poets of the Thirties were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism, by the class-struggle and a passionate belief in poets as people whose actions are as publically... -
Having Once Paused: Poems of Zen Master Ikkyu (1394-1481) by Ikkyu Sojun
$37.28The influence of Zen Master Ikky? (1394-1481) permeates the full field of medieval Japanese aesthetics. Though best known as a poet, Ikky? was central to the shaping and reshaping of practices in calligraphy, Noh theater, tea ceremony, and rock... -
No, Love Is Not Dead: An Anthology of Love Poetry from Around the World by Chris McCabe 9781529338539
RRP: $25.33$16.77Silver Medal Winner for Poetry at the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards.A powerful new anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia has found its expression in the words of the world's greatest poets.No, Love Is Not Dead is a timely... -
Book of Songs (Shi-Jing): A New Translation of Selected Poems from the Ancient Chinese Anthology by Confucius
RRP: $38.98$26.79Claimed by some to have been compiled by Confucius in the 5th century BCE, the Book of Songs is an ancient anthology of Chinese poetry. Collecting poems over a number of centuries, the anthology - sometimes known as the Classic of Poetry (or Shi-jing) -... -
Dancing with the Dead: The Essential Red Pine Translations by Red Pine
RRP: $31.18$21.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596452Author Red PineFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
A Little Primer Of Tu Fu by David Hawkes
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789629966591Author David HawkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen
RRP: $25.33$19.89What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his exploration of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one... -
Poets of the Chinese Revolution by Gregor Benton
RRP: $39.00$26.01This is a book of poems by four veteran Chinese revolutionaries. Chen Duxiu led China's early cultural awakening before founding the Communist Party in 1921. Mao led the Party to power in 1949. Zheng Chaolin, Chen Duxiu's disciple and, like him, a... -
Uyghur Poems by Various 9781841598307
RRP: $23.40$16.46The Uyghur people of Central Asia have a long and distinguished tradition of poetry - indeed, their first oral epic was circulating as early as the 2nd century BCE. In the medieval period Sufi poetry flourished, embracing Persian forms such as the... -
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger
RRP: $17.53$15.23The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty-from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth's loose... -
Du Fu: A Life in Poetry by Du Fu 9780375711602
RRP: $37.03$28.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711602Author Du FuFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Jericho Brown 9781942683339
RRP: $23.38$15.60In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family--the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes--all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all... -
The Mountain Poems Of Meng Hao-jan by Hao-Jan Meng
RRP: $25.33$16.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972869232Author Hao-jan MengFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 164g -
The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton by Tu Fu 9780811228381
RRP: $29.23$24.78Tu Fu (712-770 C.E.) has for a millennium been widely considered the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition, and Hinton's original translation played a key role in developing that reputation in America. Most of Tu Fu's best poems were written in the last... -
Yin Mountain: The Immortal Poetry of Three Daoist Women by Rebecca Nie
RRP: $35.08$23.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645471127Author Rebecca NieFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Selected Poems by Ai Qing
RRP: $29.23$21.35A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China's most acclaimed poets-now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai WeiweiOne of the most influential... -
Sunday Sparrows by Lin Song 9781938890253
RRP: $21.43$14.39Song Lin's poems explore his sojourns in several countries, the natural world outside him, and his own inner landscape. His early imprisonment during the 1989 Tienanmen Square protests gave rise to the title poem, as well as a profound sense of yearning... -
Moving a Stone: Bilingual in Chinese and English by Yam Gong
$26.56Yam Gong is a leading Hong Kong poet who has worked as a laborer since adolescence and produced many of his poems during his work breaks. An outsider poet, he explores the synthesis of everyday life and philosophical inquiry. Using shifting tonal... -
The Four Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, Analects, Mencius by David Hinton
RRP: $46.78$31.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619028340Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
An Illustrated Modern Reader of 'The Classic of Tea' by Wu Juenong 9781602200296
RRP: $46.70$34.61This commentary on the Chinese masterpiece, The Classic of Tea, offers a fascinating perspective on this ancient pastime and art.The Classic of Tea, the first known monograph on tea in the world, was written in the 8th century by Lu Yu who devoted his... -
A Treatise on Stars by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
RRP: $27.28$22.07A Treatise on Stars extends Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's intensely phenomenological poetics to the fiery bodies in a "field of heaven...outside spacetime." Long, lyrical lines map a geography of interconnected, interdimensional intelligence that exists in all... -
An Anthology of Poetry by Buddhist Nuns of Late Imperial China by Beata Grant 9780197586310
RRP: $44.83$38.92The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. This anthology opens up new religious and poetic... -
Chinese Love Poetry by Jane Portal
RRP: $19.48$13.26The three arts of poetry, calligraphy and painting are regarded in China as the Triple Excellence, and they are brought together here in a beautifully presented anthology of forty Chinese love poems ranging from the earliest known works in the famous... -
A Tower Built Downwards: 一座向下修建的塔 by Yang Lian
RRP: $29.23$19.11Before and since his enforced exile from 1989, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets from China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many... -
Dreaming of Falling Blossoms: Tune Poems of Su Dong-po by Su Dong-Po 9781945680274
RRP: $25.33$25.29Su Dong-po is recognized as one of the main Chinese poets of the Sung Dynasty and this bilingual collection contains work never previously translated.Book InformationISBN 9781945680274Author Su Dong-PoFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint White Pine... -
The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from the Republican Period by Herbert Batt 9780773547667
RRP: $50.68$40.03The May Fourth Movement launched an era of turmoil and transformation in China, as Western ideas and education encroached on the Confucian traditions at the root of Chinese society. The Republican period (1919-49) witnessed an outpouring of poetry in a... -
An Introduction to Chinese Poetry: From the <i>Canon of Poetry</i> to the Lyrics of the Song Dynasty by Michael A. Fuller 9780674977013
RRP: $107.15$91.61This innovative textbook for learning classical Chinese poetry moves beyond the traditional anthology of poems translated into English and instead brings readers-including those with no knowledge of Chinese-as close as possible to the texture of the...