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Cold Mountain: One Hundred Poems by the t'Ang Poet Han-Shan

10 best books like Cold Mountain: One Hundred Poems by the t'Ang Poet Han-Shan (Burton Watson): Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology, Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems, Five t'Ang Poets, The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry, River of Stars: Selected Poems, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan, Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong, Poems of the Late T'ang, Women Poets of China, Selected Poems

Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology
AuthorDavid Hinton
ISBN0374531900
With this groundbreaking collection, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to the work that riveted Ezra Pound and transformed modern poetry. The Chinese poetic tradition is the largest and longest continuous tradition in world...
Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems
AuthorLi Bai
ISBN0140442723
Li 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 heights in its descriptions of natural scenes and...
Five t'Ang Poets
AuthorWang Wei
"Todo lo que amas de la literatura japonesa es en realidad chino"... ¿Cuántos años me llevará entender lo que él dijo al pasar?
Vengan aquí, lectores de Murasaki, Kawabata, Yosano... y tal vez la última: Kawakami. Vengan y lean a estos poetas que escribieron hace 1300 años y que también...
The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry
AuthorArthur Waley
ISBN0802134777
One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs (Shijing) is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs left from antiquity. Where the other Confucian classics treat “outward things: deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works,”...
River of Stars: Selected Poems
AuthorAkiko Yosano
ISBN1570621462
Yosano Akiko (1878-942) is one of the most famous Japanese writers of the twentieth century. She is the author of more than seventy-five books, including twenty volumes of original poetry and the definitive translation into modern Japanese of the Tale of the Genji. Although probably best known for...
The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
AuthorOno no Komachi
ISBN0679729585
Japanese poetry is said to be originated in human heart and mind and grows in to the myriad leaves of words. The collection of poems The Ink Dark Moon is from the Heian era of Japanese literature, the era is considered as Golden Age in the history of Japanese literature. The language in that era was very inflected...
Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong
AuthorHồ Xuân Hương
ISBN1556591489
Hồ Xuân Hương — whose name translates as "Spring Essence" — is one of the most important and popular poets in Vietnam. A concubine, she became renowned for her poetic skills, writing subtly risqué poems which used double entendre and sexual innuendo as a vehicle for social, religious, and...
Poems of the Late T'ang
AuthorA.C. Graham
ISBN1590172574
Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional intensity. A. C. Graham’s slim but indispensable...
Women Poets of China
AuthorKenneth Rexroth
ISBN0811208214
This book (originally published in 1972 by The Seabury Press as The Orchid Boat) is the first representative collection of the poetry of Chinese women to appear in English. Unlike Japan with its long tradition of women writers, poetry by women did not become fashionable in China until the Ch'ing dynasty...
Selected Poems
AuthorRobinson Jeffers
ISBN0394702956
Robinson Jeffers died in 1962 at the age of seventy-five, ending one of the most controversial poetic careers of this century.

The son of a theology professor at Western Seminary in Pittsburgh, Jeffers was taught Greek, Latin, and Hebrew as a boy, and spent three years in Germany and Switzerland...
The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets
AuthorSam Hamill
ISBN1570620199
Here are more than two hundred of the best haiku of Japanese literature translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators. The haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion,...
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
AuthorGary Snyder
ISBN1593760159
Forty-five years ago, Gary Snyder’s first book of poems, Riprap, was published by Origin Press in a beautiful paperbound edition stitched Japanese-style. Around that time Snyder published his translations of Chinese poet Han-Shan’s Cold Mountain Poems in the sixth issue of the “Evergreen...
The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain
AuthorHanshan
ISBN1556591403
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...
Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse
AuthorRed Pine
ISBN1556591950
Bilingual: Chinese/English

Poetry is China’s greatest art, and for the past eight centuries Poems of the Masters has been that country’s most studied and memorized collection of verse. For the first time ever in English, here is the complete text, with an introduction and extensive...
Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf: Zen Poems of Ryokan
AuthorRyōkan
ISBN1590301080
The Japanese poet-recluse Ryokan (1758-1831) is one of the most beloved figures of Asian literature, renowned for his beautiful verse, exquisite calligraphy, and eccentric character. Deceptively simple, Ryokan's poems transcend artifice, presenting spontaneous expressions of pure Zen spirit....
The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi: A Translation of the Lin-Chi Lu
AuthorLínjì Yìxuán
ISBN0231114850
Among the most important texts of Zen literature, the "Lin-Chi lu" details the insights and exploits of the great ninth century Chinese Zen master Lin-chi, one of the most highly regarded of the T'ang period masters. PEN Translation Prize-winner Burton Watson presents here an eloquent translation...
Winter Morning Walks: 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison
AuthorTed Kooser
ISBN0887483364
Some poems from Winter Morning Walks: 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison, by Ted Kooser:

1. Perfectly Still This Solstice Morning

Perfectly still this solstice morning,

in bone-cracking cold. Nothing moving,

or so one might think, but as I walk the road,

the wind...
Bashō's Haiku: Selected Poems
AuthorMatsuo Bashō
ISBN0791461661
In summer rains
The crane's legs
become short

Leaving the hot springs
Looking back how many times --
Beneath the mist

Ill on a journey:
My dreams roam round
over withered fields

Three of Basho's poems, from early, middle and late career. These new...
Empty Chairs: Selected Poems
AuthorLiu Xia
ISBN1555977251
The first publication of the poetry of Liu Xia, wife of the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu Xiaobo

I didn't have a chance
to say a word before you became
a character in the news,
everyone looking up to you
as I was worn down
at the edge of the crowd
just smoking
and...
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