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The Clouds Should Know Me By Now: Buddhist Poet Monks of China

10 best books like The Clouds Should Know Me By Now: Buddhist Poet Monks of China (Red Pine): A Bend in the River, Quichotte, Memoirs of Hadrian, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, La Dame aux Camélias, The Three-Cornered World, The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: From Ancient to Contemporary, The Full 3000-Year Tradition, The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life, The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, دو بیتی های بابا طاهر

A Bend in the River
AuthorV.S. Naipaul
ISBN0330487140
This book is as much a story of what it was like living in a newly independent country in Africa in the 1960’s - 1970’s as it is a novel. The book has memorable opening lines: “The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”

The main...
Quichotte
AuthorSalman Rushdie
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.

Inspired by the Cervantes...
Memoirs of Hadrian
AuthorMarguerite Yourcenar
ISBN0374529264
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally,...
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
AuthorLawrence Wright
A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews...
La Dame aux Camélias
AuthorAlexandre Dumas fils
ISBN0192836382
La Dame aux camélias = The Lady of the Camellias, Alexandre Dumas fils
The Lady with the Camellias, is a novel by Alexandre Dumas (Son), first published in 1848, and subsequently adapted by Dumas for the stage. Written by Alexandre Dumas (Son) (1824–1895) when he was 23 years old, and first published...
The Three-Cornered World
AuthorNatsume Sōseki
ISBN0720611563
"An artist abandons city life to wander into the mountains to meditate, but when he decides to stay at a near-deserted inn he soon finds himself drawn to the daughter of the innkeeper. This strange and beautiful woman is rumoured to have abandoned her husband and fallen in love with a priest at a nearby...
The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: From Ancient to Contemporary, The Full 3000-Year Tradition
AuthorTony Barnstone
ISBN0385721986
Unmatched in scope and literary quality, The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred poems by more than one hundred thirty poets, in translations–many new and exclusive to the book–by an array of distinguished translators.

Here...
The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life
AuthorLü Dongbin
ISBN0156799804
El secreto de la flor de oro es el secreto de los poderes de crecimiento latentes en la psique humana. A partir de esta definición, Jung y Wilhelm abordan un nuevo enfoque de la sabiduría china –tomando como fuentes un antiguo sistema del yoga chino y la psicología analítica– y nos demuestran...
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...
دو بیتی های بابا طاهر
AuthorBaba Tahir
The Lament of Baba Tahir, Baba Tahir
Baba Tahir was an 11th-century Persian poet. His poetry is written in Hamedani dialect of Persian language.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: ماه می سال 1971 میلادی؛ خوانش نسخه های دیگر: ماه مارس سال 1990...
One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan
AuthorRyōkan
ISBN0834805707
The hermit-monk Ryokan, long beloved in Japan both for his poetry and for his character, belongs in the tradition of the great Zen eccentrics of China and Japan. His reclusive life and celebration of nature and the natural life also bring to mind his younger American contemporary, Thoreau. Ryokan's...
The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
AuthorBodhidharma
ISBN0865473994
A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although the tradition that traces its ancestry back to him did not flourish until nearly two hundred years after his death, today millions of Zen Buddhists and students of kung fu claim him as their spiritual...
A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems
AuthorFernando Pessoa
ISBN0143039555
...I have in me all the dreams of the world.
Álvaro de Campos, “The Tobacco Shop”
Warning
This is going to be a long, tedious, intense review. If you don't feel like reading an endless bunch of nonsense, you may leave now. However, poetry lover, I seriously suggest you this: get this...
Outcaste: A Novel
AuthorMatampu Kunhukuttan
Outcaste ( Brushte in the original Malayalam) is a powerful story of the revenge a single woman named Paptikutty wreaks on her community for the monstrous injustice done to her. It is based on the 1905 trial of a Namboodiri woman for adultery and the revenge she exacted on her sixty-four lovers, who belonged...
Utz
AuthorBruce Chatwin
ISBN0140115765
Utz collects Meissen porcelain with a passion. His collection, which he has protected and enlarged through both World War II and Czechoslovakia's years of Stalinism, numbers more than 1,000 pieces, all crammed into his two-room Prague flat. Utz is allowed to leave the country each year, and although...
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