The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology

10 best books like The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology (Faubion Bowers): The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Yuasa), Basho: The Complete Haiku, The Selected Poems, On Becoming a Novelist, Japanese Fairy Tales, The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, Raids On The Unspeakable, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, The Furious Longing of God

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...

Basho: The Complete Haiku

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...

The Selected Poems

Author	Li Bai
ISBN	0856462918

I return to Li Po often. He is as important to me as anyone in my literary pantheon. I haven't done the comparative research to determine which translation is best, but I've yet to be disappointed when I've cracked a Li Po collection.

really, the following is all you need to know:

Alone...

On Becoming a Novelist

Author	John Gardner
ISBN	0393320030

On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication, Gardner describes the life of a working novelist; warns what needs to be guarded against,...

Japanese Fairy Tales

Author	Yei Theodora Ozaki
ISBN	4805308818

Things I learnt from Japanese Fairy Tales
-Never trust a monkey.
-Never trust a stepmother.
-Never trust a stepmother with your monkey.
-Almost every boy in Japan is named Taro, or a variant of that name: Kintaro, Urashima Taro, Momotaro...
-If an old man wants to wrestle your...

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...

Raids On The Unspeakable

Author

Thomas Merton

I don't usually read much philosophy, the first set of essays are easier to understand and approachable than the last part of the book. I believe his main premise is to fight against the void, against nihilism "the unspeakable", by speaking out against racism, injustice and inhumanity. I overheard...

Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Author	Robin D.G. Kelley
ISBN	0807009776

Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of...

The Furious Longing of God

Author	Brennan Manning
ISBN	1434767507

Imagine a stormy day at sea, your ship yielding to a relentless wind, pummeled by crashing waves, subject to the awesome force of nature. A force that is both fierce and majestic. A power that is nothing short of furious.


Such is God's intense, consuming love for His children. It's a love...

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

Author	Rose George
ISBN	0805092633

Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization

On ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we...