A gift collection of major Zen writings is highlighted by lush full-color artwork and photographs, background information, a history of Zen, and explanations of the teachings and the philosophy behind them.

Written over a career that spans five decades, And Still Birds Sing is the masterwork of a major voice in American poetry.Bringing together his previously collected poems as well as the three books published since then, a sampling of his renowned translations of haiku, and a generous number of previously unpublished new poems, this latest collection by poet and translator Lucien Stryk is evidence of the popular and critical acclaim for an important contributor to twentieth-century letters.Stryk’s work offers an intimate autobiography, at the same time giving a strong sense of the nature of our age, its ups and downs, despairs and promises, recorded with the permanence that only fine poetry can assure. Writing in Contemporary American Poetry, A. Poulin, Jr. said, “The moral grandeur of Stryk’s poetry emerges specifically from his ability to reveal, to accept, and to forgive … even the darker edges of human experience, because to do so is to awaken to, and to be fully aware of, our own most profound humanity … that is akin to Whitman's assertion nothing human is alien to me.”In And Still Birds Sing, Stryk’s life’s work in poetry states and restates that assertion, making it his own.

Product Description: This new collection of Lucien Stryk's original poetry and Zen translations contains a balanced selection from poetry written over a period of 40 years. It is nothing less than the summation of a lifetime's

Product Description: By combining the idea of "Karumi" --lightness of touch--and oneness with nature, Basho (1644-1694) rose above the artificiality of previous haiku poets to become the master of the genre in his time. His exquisite compositions reflect the influences of his Zen Buddhism and a life spent traveling, and reveal him to be an inspired perfectionist who sought to express himself in the purest possible form...read more

Product Description: A portrait of the day-to-day way of Zen by one of America's authorities on Zen literature.

Product Description: Haiku at its best is an art in which the poet takes a natural, most ordinary event, and without fuss, ornament or inflated words makes of it a rare moment — sparely rendered, crystallized into a microcosm which reveals transcendent unity...read more

Product Description: Over 200 accessible and understandable poems selected from the entire collection of English language poetry.

Product Description: Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), long considered among Japan's four greatest haiku poets (along with Basho, Buson and Shiki) is probably the best loved. This collection of more than 360 haiku, arranged seasonally and many rendered into English for the first time, attempts to reveal the full range of the poet's extraordinary life as if it were concentrated within a year...read more

Product Description: Jointly translated by a Japanese scholar and an American poet, this collection spans 1500 years - from the early T'ang dynasty to the present day - and offers Zen poetry in all its diversity: Chinese poems of enlightenment and health, poems of the Japanese masters and many "haiku", the quintessential Zen art...read more

Critical notes accompany translations of more than one hundred and fifty poems reflecting the truths of Zen Buddhism

Product Description: Book by Stryk, Lucien

Gathers a selection of Jakata tales, sermons, poems, and discources on basic concepts of Buddhist philosophy

Product Description: This book is clean & bright, with no creases, no tears, & no markings. Dustjacket has a little light wear to the extremities, else clean & bright.

Regional poems representing seventy-nine writers reveal the beginnings of a Midwest renaissance in American poetry

Product Description: The sharpness of Lucien Stryk’s poetry is made of simple things—frost on a windowpane at morning, ducks moving across a pond, an argument flailing in the distance, a neighbor's fuss over his lawn—set down in a language that is at once direct and powerful...read more