Precious Mirror

Kobun Chino Otogawa

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• A true companion for the journey, Precious Mirror, combines Kobun Chino's brilliant calligraphy with translations of the poems into English enface. Ko... Lees meer

Simmering Away

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey | nr. 11
• "A collection of endearing, melancholy little songs. I am grateful to have such an engaging translation."--Robert Aitken Roshi A lovely gift book of s... Lees meer

Because of the Rain

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• Buddhism was introduced to Korea via China in the fifth century and similar to China and Japan a long tradition of Zen poetry developed. This collecti... Lees meer

There Is No Road

Antonio Machado

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• Traveler, there is no road; you make your path as you walk. Lees meer

Taken to Heart: 70 Poems from the Chinese

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• These seventy poems are masterpieces from over a thousand years of classical Chinese poetry. Beauty and simplicity meld to convey an astounding landsc... Lees meer

The Shape of Light

James Wright

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• "Wright's poems, with their grace and intelligence, not only stand as a rebuke to most of the glib work of his time, but remain among the finest examp... Lees meer

Back Roads to Far Towns

Basho

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• A classic translation of Basho's most famous travel journal Lees meer

10,000 Dawns

Yvan Goll, Claire Goll

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• Published in France in 1951 and appearing here for the first time in exquisite English translations that capture the poignancy of the originals, this ... Lees meer

Haiku Master Buson

Buson

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• The first English translation of one of Japan's most important haiku poets. Lees meer

Pilgrim of the Clouds

Hung-Tao Yuan

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• "With this volume, Chaves makes an outstanding contribution to the books that present classical Chinese poetry in both accurate and enjoyable English ... Lees meer

Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• "Refined, intense, wise, stirring, immediate, subtle, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow . These translations are precious jewels. L... Lees meer

The Unswept Path

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• The Unswept Path is a diverse gathering of American poets who have chosen the haiku as one of the forms in which they write. This anthology presents t... Lees meer

A Zen Forest

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• Pithy phrases handed down through a distinguished line of Chinese and Japanese Zen masters. Lees meer

Heaven My Blanket, Earth My Pillow

Yang WAN-Li

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• Classic poems by a 12th century Sung Dynasty master. Lees meer

Breaking the Willow

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• Breaking the Willow is a wonderful collection of classic Chinese poems on the themes of parting and exile. The poems capture brief meetings between po... Lees meer

What Happened Was...

Genie Zeiger

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey | nr. 19
• "Genie turns our attention to things that matter, radical medicine in a time of lost vision."--Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul Written by ess... Lees meer

The Secret Gardens of Mogador

Alberto Ruy-Sánchez

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• "Ruy-Sánchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry, and intelligence in a new geometry of words. . . . His writing has nerve and ag... Lees meer

Mountain Tasting

Santoka Taneda

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• Mountain Tasting gathers a wide cross section of haiku and a selection of the diaries of the wandering Japanese poet, Santoka (1882-1940). Santoka liv... Lees meer

Searching for Guan Yin

Sarah Truman

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey | nr. 23
• "Sarah Truman's closely observed jaunt in China and Tibet offers some priceless scenes, from trying to hilarious. How lucky she is to be watched over ... Lees meer

Poetics of Wonder: Passage to Mogador

Alberto Ruy-Sánchez

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey | nr. 24
• "The most moving, beautiful, and eloquent expression of wonder in literature. If there has been anything new in recent literature of any type it is th... Lees meer

Majestic Nights

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• How do Bengali women love in times of social transition and political upheaval? These poems look at how Bengali women tell their truths of the heart a... Lees meer

White Crane

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• A poetry and life unique in the lineage of the Dalai Lama. The sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso (1683-1706), refused to take full monastic vows and ... Lees meer

Finding the Way Home

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey
• Good poetry contains the kind of knowledge we search for, the kind that resonates in the heart as well as the mind. The poems in this anthology are ti... Lees meer

Unexpected Development

Klaus Merz

• Paperback | Engels | Companions for the Journey | nr. 25
• Merz is keenly attentive to daily life as a revelator of essential truths, and thus uses poetry as a way of returning closer to it; and "to unbecome w... Lees meer