Penguin book of Zen poetry / edited and translated by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto with an introduction by Lucien Stryk.

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Series: Penguin poetsPublisher: London : Penguin Books, 1981Description: 160 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780140585995

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DDC classification:

895.11 .P398

Summary: "The Penguin Book of Zen Poetry, jointly translated by Japanese scholar Takashi Ikemoto and American poet Lucien Stryk, is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind to appear in English. Spanning 1,500 years - from the early T'ang dynasty to the present day - it offers Zen poetry in all its diversity : Chinese poems of enlightenment and death, poems of the Japanese masters and many haiku, the quintessential Zen art. Japan's greatest contemporary Zen poet, Shinkichi Takahashi, is also well-represented and the volume contains many poems never before rendered into English, as well as numerous examples of Zen painting." - Provided by the publisher .

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Print Materials	Main Library General Circulation	895.11 .P398 1981 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		0114072

"First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, 1977" -- Title page verso.

"The Penguin Book of Zen Poetry, jointly translated by Japanese scholar Takashi Ikemoto and American poet Lucien Stryk, is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind to appear in English. Spanning 1,500 years - from the early T'ang dynasty to the present day - it offers Zen poetry in all its diversity : Chinese poems of enlightenment and death, poems of the Japanese masters and many haiku, the quintessential Zen art. Japan's greatest contemporary Zen poet, Shinkichi Takahashi, is also well-represented and the volume contains many poems never before rendered into English, as well as numerous examples of Zen painting." - Provided by the publisher .

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