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Basho (1644-1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. He made his living as a teacher and writer of Haiku and is celebrated for his many travels around Japan, which he recorded in travel journals. This translation of his most mature journal, O...

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This is the only translation of the work of this important haiku poet in English. Buson (1716-1783), along with Basho and Issa, is recognised as one of the three Japanese masters of the haiku. In addition to a large selection of haiku, the book al...

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"Traveler, there is no road; you make your path as you walk". While others suggest taking the road less travelled, Antonio Machado suggests that we each make our own road. In this series of brief poems Machado utilises traditional Spanish verse fo...

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"This sampler is a good introduction to a number of writers and to the kind of work being done by American Indian poets. Kenny has chosen carefully and well. The work is varied, but the poems have in common the celebration, without romanticis...

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"This collection is painful, disturbing, and rewarding. Freeman and three other translators transform Storni's razor-sharp poetry into English versions that invite constant rereading. This is a poetry of fatal beauty that leads toward unavoidable ...

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When Doug Carloson bought a tiny old cottage on a bluff overlooking a beach at the eastern end of Lake Erie, he thought he was acquiring a holiday spot for his family and a writing retreat for himself. He got those, but he also ended up with somet...

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A new collection by the author of 'On Occasion', 'The Woman Poems' and 'New Spaces'. Joel Oppenheimer says in the preface to this book, "Every poem is an investigation of the world we live in, the way we live, an...

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"An anthology of nearly 100 Chinese lyrics (san-ch'u) by 23 poets, three of them anonymous, all from the Yuan period (1271-1368). Seaton's colloquial English renderings are a sheer pleasure to read, so much so that the reader is apt to forget he i...

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This volume of essays by the late botanist Edgar Anderson celebrates places and landscapes both urban and rural. With a trained eye, a certain reflective quality of attention, deeply rooted observation, and a knowledgeable mind, he creates in an e...

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Edith Shiffert has lived in Kyoto, Japan since 1963. Her poems reflect the Japanese landscape and the sensibility in which she has immersed herself for over twenty-five years. She has published eight previous collections of poetry.

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A landmark collection that rescues the voices of the great women writers of Latin America letters, many of them distinguished in their own countries but largely unrecognised abroad. The collection shows a wide range of themes, images, and language...

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"The most distinguished figure in the renaissance that has occurred in American Indian poetry over the last three decades. He thus brings to his fiction a poet's concern for precision and exactness in diction."--World Literature Today

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'Vannattas short stories truly deserve the term eclectic. Tightly crafted, crisp in language and image, these stories defy categorization, even to one another.-The MultiCultural Review

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"The creative act par excellence."-Denis Donoghue "Extravaganza is the eeriest comic novel of our generation."-Cynthia Ozick

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Hans Windelband finds himself, at age 26, among the living dead. He lives alone in a small apartment in Oslo, his life a mere hollow of an existence, without purpose or direction. This wasn't what he had expected; somehow his life has gone terribl...

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Gabriela Mistral's name evokes a constellation of contradictory images: a rural schoolteacher and first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize, a poet who sang to children but never had any of her own, a provincialist and a universal travelle...

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Our image of Korea is shaped by the memory of the Korean War and the country's recent emergence as a fast-developing Asian industrial power. English-speaking readers are largely unaware of Korea's long literary tradition and the work of its contem...

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Sister of famed warrior Chief Joseph Brant and wife of the legendary Sir William Johnson, Tekonwatonti/Molly Brant seemed destined to exist only in their shadows until acclaimed poet Maurice Kenny plucked her from the footnotes of history. In a re...

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The poems in this collection by critically-acclaimed Chilean poet, editor and human rights activist Marjorie Agosin reflect her deep-rooted passion for nature, for life, and for being. Agosin creates a world where everything touches the sea and is...

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"An important chorus of our south of the border sisters for us Latinas to hear...Here we have much knowing and glorying from Argentina to Brazil to my own Dominican Republic -- toes to waist to breasts of the hemisphere!" -- Julia Alvarez.

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Considered the father of modern Norwegian poetry, Jacobsen's work records the extraordinary changes that take place as we move from an agrarian to an industrial society. This book gathers work from all his published books. "Jacobsen is not an idyl...

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In this compelling collection of 44 stories, first published in Chile in 1991, Agosin explores such themes as relationships and class conflicts among Latin American women, being Jewish within a predominantly Catholic culture, political oppression,...

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The 25 stories in this collection -- written since 1959 by Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican writers -- make accessible Caribbean literature long lost to most readers in this country because of differences in language, politics, and culture. Desp...

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This anthology gathers over 1500 years if Chinese Zen (Ch'an) poetry, from the earliest writing -- including the Hsin Hsin Ming written by the Third Patriarch -- to the poetry of monks living in this century. Drawn together by the Zen thread, this...

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Here, at last, a major collection of John Brandi's work, spanning nearly thirty years of travels -- from early poems written in South America to those from India, the Himalayas, the Arctic, the North American outback, the deep solitude of New Mexi...

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skillfully evokes the tension between the celebration of individualism and the impossibility of collective agreement...a collection of funny and sinister stories with a refreshing assuredness. Recommended.- Library Journal

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This is a collection including poems from Christopher Merrill's first two books as well as later poems. It concludes with his exquisite long poem 'Luck', which begins "For those not born to wealth or royalty, / Luck's a language learned by fits an...

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