Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter
Authors and Contributors      Edited and translated by Lucien Stryk
Edited and translated by Takashi Ikemoto
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:124
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 140
Category/GenrePoetry
Zen Buddhism
ISBN/Barcode 9780802134073
ClassificationsDewey:895.61008092
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publication Date 20 January 1995
Publication Country United States

Description

This anthology, jointly translated by a Japanese scholar and an American poet, is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind to appear in English. Their collaboration has rendered translations both precise and sublime, and their selection, which span 1,500 years, from the early T'ang dynasty to the present day, includes many poems that have never before been translated into English. Stryk and Ikemoto offer us Zen poetry in all its diversity: Chinese poems of enlightenment and death, poems of the Japanese masters, many haiku the quintessential Zen art and an impressive selection of poems by Shinkichi Takahashi, Japan's greatest contemporary Zen poet. With Zen Poetry, Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto have graced us with a compellingly beautiful collection, which in their translations is pure literary pleasure, illuminating the world vision to which these poems give permanent expression.