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Book cover for Thomas John Hudak: The Tale of Prince Samuttakote

The Tale of Prince Samuttakote : A Buddhist Epic from Thailand

Thomas John Hudak
Paperback - $44.95

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Thai poets produced epics depicting elaborate myths and legends which intermingled the human, natural, and supernatural worlds. One of the most famous of these classical compositions is the Samuttakhoo ...

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Wild Ways : Zen Poems of Ikkyu

Ikkyu
Paperback - $23.95

Ikkyu, who lived from 13941481, was known as one of Japan's most irreverent and iconoclastic Zen masters. He spent much of his life as a vagrant monk, wandering here and there, and mingling with people both high- and low-born. On occasion, Ikkyu play ...

Book cover for Kobayashi Issa: Inch by Inch

Inch by Inch : 45 Haiku by Issa

Kobayashi Issa
Paperback - $20.95

Haiku by one of 19th-century Japan's finest Haiku masters.

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The Spring of My Life : And Selected Haiku

Kobayashi Issa
Paperback - $35.95

Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), along with Basho and Buson, is considered one of the three greatest haiku poets of Japan, known for his attention to poignant detail and his playful sense of humor. Issa's most-loved work, The Spring of My Life, is an auto ...

Book cover for Alan Jefferies: Homage and Other Poems

Homage and Other Poems

Alan Jefferies
Paperback - $23.95



Book cover for Kabir: Songs of Kabir

Songs of Kabir

Kabir
Paperback - $11.95

The 15th-century poet Kabir created timeless works of enlightenment that combine the philosophies of Sufism, Hinduism, and the Kabbala. Expressed in imagery drawn from common life and the universal experience, Kabir's poems possess an simplicity and ...

Book cover for Christopher Kelen: After Meng Jiao

After Meng Jiao : Responses to the Tang Poet

Christopher Kelen
Paperback - $24.95



Book cover for Christopher Kelen: Spring Wind Brings the Fireworks

Spring Wind Brings the Fireworks

Christopher Kelen
Paperback - $24.95

Xin Qiji (1140-1207) was a Song Dynasty poet who wrote in a range of genres and is famous for the more than six hundred ci poems he composed to one hundred and one different tunes. Kit (Christopher) Kelen and Agnes Vong have worked through around a q ...

Book cover for Omar Khayyam: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam
Hardcover - $20.95

In the eleventh century, in Persia, there lived a mathematician named Ghiyathuddin Abulfath Omar bin Ibrahim al-Khayyami--or, Omar, son of Abraham, the tent-maker. Omar wrote poetry, and while his rhymes received little attention in their day, they w ...

Book cover for Omar Khayyam: The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam

The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam
Paperback - $18.95



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