Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death

10 best books like Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death (Yoel Hoffmann): The Essential Rumi, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Yuasa), Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings, The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, Selected Poems, Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku, Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology, Neorealism and Its Critics, Birthday Stories

The Essential Rumi

Author	Rumi
ISBN	0062509594

This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems.

Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range...

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Yuasa)

Author	Matsuo Bashō
ISBN	0140441859

In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his attempts to cast off earthly attachments and reach out to spiritual fulfillment. The sketches are written in the "haibun" style--a linking of verse and prose. The title piece, in particular, reveals Basho...

Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings

Author	Matsuo Bashō
ISBN	1570627169

Here is the most complete single-volume collection of the writings of one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Basho (1644–1694)—who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty—is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior,...

The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa

Author	Robert Hass
ISBN	0613339983

American readers have been fascinated since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku. The seventeen-syllable form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observation of nature, of making poetry from subtle suggestion....

On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

Author	Matsuo Bashō
ISBN	0140444599

Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer...

Selected Poems

Author	W.B. Yeats
ISBN	0753816652

"All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: "
"One time it was a woman's face, or worse-"
"The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;"
"Now nothing but comes readier to the hand"
"Than this accustomed toil."
"--"From" All Things Can Tempt Me"
Nobel Prize winner W.B. Yeats...

Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku

Author	William J. Higginson
ISBN	4770014309

"The Haiku Handbook" is the first book to give the reader everything needed to begin writing or teaching haiku. It presents haiku poets writing in English, Spanish, French, German, and five other languages on an equal footing with Japanese poets. Not only are the four great Japanese masters of the haiku...

Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology

Author	Thich Nhat Hanh
ISBN	1888375302

This profound look at Buddhist psychology offers important insights into how Buddhism's ancient teachings apply to the modern world. Basing his work on the writings of the great fifth-century Buddhist master Vasubandhu and the teachings of the Avatamsaka Sutra, Thich Nhat Hanh focuses on the direct...

Neorealism and Its Critics

Author	Robert O. Keohane
ISBN	0231063490

One of the liveliest debates in American international relations theory today concerns "neorealism," a revival of the tradition that emphasizes the role of interstate power struggles in world affairs. The debate was sparked by the 1979 publication of Kenneth Waltz's Theory of International Relations,...

Birthday Stories

Author	Haruki Murakami
ISBN	1843431599

Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami, Haruki Murakami,and ...
Birthday Stories is a 2002 short story anthology edited by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Despite the theme's happy connotations most of the short stories have a dark, melancholic atmosphere.
Introduction:...