Book of Haikus
10 best books like Book of Haikus (Jack Kerouac): Year of the Monkey, Basho: The Complete Haiku, Turtle Island, Queer, One Hundred Poems from the Chinese, The Portable Beat Reader, The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology, Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 11/23 to 12/14, 1974, Morning Haiku
| Author | Patti Smith |
| ISBN | 0525657681 |
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
| Author | Matsuo Bashō |
| ISBN | 4770030630 |
Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight. Every new student of haiku quickly learns that Basho was the greatest of the Old Japanese Masters.
Yet despite his stature, Bashos...
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 0811205460 |
Describing the title of his collection of poetry and occasional prose pieces, Gary Snyder writes in his introductory note that Turtle Island is "the old/new name for the continent, based on many creation myths of the people who have been here for millennia, and reapplied by some of them to 'North America'...
| Author | William S. Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0330300164 |
I have a passionate hatred for William Burroughs. I think even his fans have to concede that he's a degenerate piece of shit. I admit my prior experience with him consists of 5 pages of Naked Lunch and a couple biographies of various sorts, none of which fail to mention the pedophilia and him murdering his...
| Author | Kenneth Rexroth |
| ISBN | 0811201805 |
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...
| Author | Ann Charters |
| ISBN | 0140151028 |
Beginning in the late 1940s, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstacy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. It was the junk-sick surrealism of William Burroughs,...
| Author | Hanshan |
| ISBN | 1556591403 |
A Zen-Taoist poetry classic, in a handsome Chinese-English format
This definitive translation of Han Shan’s poetry appears in a bilingual Chinese-English format. Included are extensive notes, a preface by renowned translator Red Pine, a findings list, and photographs of the cave and...
| Author | Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| ISBN | 0872863115 |
"This comprehensive selection from the influential City Lights Pocket Poets Series is a landmark retrospective, celebrating forty years of publishing and cultural history.
From the introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
“Even though some say that an avant-garde in literature...
| Author | Werner Herzog |
| ISBN | 0979612101 |
In the winter of 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog made a three week solo journey from Munich to Paris on foot to visit his ailing friend, film critic and historian Lotte Eisner. During this monumental odyssey through a seemingly endless blizzard, Herzog documented everything he saw and felt with intense...
| Author | Sonia Sanchez |
| ISBN | 0807069108 |
This new volume by the much-loved poet Sonia Sanchez, her first in over a decade, is music to the ears: a collection of haiku that celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism. In her verses, we hear the sounds...
Vypravěčka Ada Sabová, mladá vědkyně z „Ústavu mezioborových studií člověka“, je v mnohém typickou (nikoli však stereotypní) moderní intelektuálkou, která se pokouší vybalancovat osobní život a kariéru. V obojím už má za sebou leccos, a tak není prosta jistého...
