Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter [Paperback]

Lucien Stryk (Translator), Takashi Ikemoto (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 20, 1995

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.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Japanese

Product Details

• Paperback: 124 pages
• Publisher: Grove Press; 1st edition (January 20, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802134076
• ISBN-13: 978-0802134073
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,249,819 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars You may already have this, April 17, 2006

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This review is from: Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter (Paperback)

If you loved Lucien Stryk's 'Penguin Book of Zen Poetry' then you'll definately love this book, because they are the exact same book! Don't make the same mistake I did, thinking it was a new book, its not, just the old book renamed and packaged as new. When I read reviews about this book elsewhere, its said this was Stryk's latest book on Zen poetry, his best poetry book on Zen poems to date. I agree though, it is his best, again!