Books on Poetry > Asian (Used, New, Out-of-Print)

AUDIOBOOKS | NEW BOOKS OF NOTE | BARGAIN BOOKS | Find a seller

» advanced search

Sale books bring joy to the world: Save 25% or more

Get your gifts by December 24: Learn how

browse BOOKS

Page 1 of 20

sort by

1	Essential Haiku Volume 20 more books like this by Robert Hass (Editor) add to wishlist American readers have been fascinated, since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku . The seventeen-syllable form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observation of nature, of making poetry from subtle suggestion. Infused by its great practitioners with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.10! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem is Translated more books like this by Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz (Photographer) add to wishlist This title features nineteen different translations of a single poem with comments on each version by Eliot Weinberger and an introduction contributed by Octavio Paz. see all copies from $3.17! new only from $7.29! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Mahabharata: An English Version Based on Selected Verses more books like this by C V Narasimhan add to wishlist Intended to be a treatise on life itself, this epic poem embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. This collection of more than 4,000 verses is supplemented by a glossary, genealogical tables, and an index correlating the verses with the original Sanskrit text. see all copies from $5.65! new only from $7.97! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Tale of Kieu: A Bilingual Edition of Nguyen Dus Truyen Kieu more books like this by Du Nguyen, Sanh Thong Huynh, Huynh Sanh Thond (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.17! new only from $20.24! \| SVS
5	The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Ja Pan more books like this by Jane Hirshfield (Translator), Mariko Aratani add to wishlist These translated poems were written by 2 ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D. The poems speak intimately of their authors' sexual longing, fulfillment and disillusionment. see all copies from $3.39! new only from $8.55! \| signed copies \| SVS
6	Songs of the Saints of India more books like this by John Stratton Hawley (Photographer), Mark Juergensmeyer (Photographer) add to wishlist 'We have waited long for an anthology of Hindi bhakti of this range, authority, and literary excellence.' - A K Ramanujan. 'The author's deep knowledge of the bhakti traditions of north India is evident both in their choice of representative poetry for each of the six saints and in the renderings of their poetry, which are so skilfully fashioned ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho more books like this by Matsuo Basho, Lucien Stryk (Translator) add to wishlist Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Fireflies more books like this by Rabindranath Tagore add to wishlist Fireflies, or brief poems, originated in China and Japan and were often written on pieces of silk. This is a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims. Collected by Rabindranath Tagore over many years, each firefly, rarely more than a sentence long, represents a luminous thought on love, life, beauty or God. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.95! \| first editions
9	The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings more books like this by Ihara Saikaku, Ahara Saikaku, Avan Morris (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.39! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems more books like this by Thich Nhat Hanh, Thich Nhat Hanh add to wishlist This definitive collection includes more than 100 poems composed over the last forty years. Thich Nhat Hanh's clarity shines forth in "Call Me by My True Names, " transforming the pain and difficulty of war and exile into a celebration of awareness and the human spirit. see all copies from $2.52! new only from $10.16! \| SVS
11 view cover	Gitanjali more books like this by Rabindranath Tagore add to wishlist Hindu mystic, poet, teacher, Nobel prize winner, Rabindranath Tagore stands among the greatest of Asiatic poets of all time. William Butler Yeats says that this 19th century writer "like Chaucer's Forerunners, writes music for his words and (that he) is so abundant, so spontaneous, so daring in his passon, and so full of surprise". John Alden ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Revolution on Canvas, Volume 1: Poetry from the Indie Music Scene more books like this by Rich Balling (Editor) add to wishlist For decades adolescents have turned to poetry to give voice to the raw emotion that characterises those tender years. In recent years, though, the form has lost its sheen as Generation X has bled into Generation Y and poets have grown up, losing touch with their rebellious past as epitomized by Arthur Rimbaud and Allen Ginsburg. But the ounders ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.82! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Dien Cai Dau more books like this by Yusef Komunyakaa add to wishlist Poetry that precisely conjures images of the war in Vietnam by an award-winning author. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Clouds Should Know Me by Now: Buddhist Poet Monks of China more books like this by Red Pine, Red Pine (Editor), Mike O'Connor (Editor) add to wishlist The voices of 14 eminent Chinese poet monks whose works span 12 centuries (A.D. 700-1900) are presented in both the original Chinese and in an English translation. The collection includes 136 poems divided into six sections with translator introductions to each poet and his work. Illustrations. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $7.97! \| SVS
15 view cover	Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved more books like this by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi, Jonathan Star (Translator) add to wishlist A collection by a Sufi poet who is revered within the Moslem world chiefly for "Mathnawi", an epic six-book work on Sufism. These works are based on Rumi's meeting with a wandering monk and his contemplation of various tenets of Sufism. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $3.50! \| SVS
16 view cover	One Hundred Poems from the Chinese more books like this by Kenneth Rexroth (Translator) add to wishlist Now in its 21st printing. Thirty-five poems by the great Tu Fu (T'ang Dynasty, 713-770) make up the first part of this volume -- with the remainder devoted to classic poets of the Sung Dynasty (10th-12th centuries) including: Mei Yao Ch'en, Su Tung P'o, Lu Yu, Chu His, Hsu Chao, and the poetesses Li Ch'ing Chao and Chu Shu Chen. With a translator ... see all copies from $2.15! new only from $8.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Three Perfections: Chinese Painting, Poetry, and Calligraphy more books like this by Michael Sullivan add to wishlist What do the Chinese write on their paintings? Why do they write on them? In this newly revised volume--now illustrated in color--Michael Sullivan provides a lucid and engaging analysis of the intimate relationships among painting, poetry, and calligraphy in Chinese culture. The fundamental unity of writing and painting is shown to be an ancient, ... see all copies from $3.38! new only from $26.37! \| first editions
18 view cover	Basho: The Complete Haiku more books like this by Matsuo Basho, Shiro Tsujimura (Illustrator), Jane Reichhold (Translator) add to wishlist Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight. Every new student of haiku quickly learns that Basho was the greatest of the Old Japanese Masters. Yet despite his stature, Bashos complete haiku have not been collected into a single ... see all copies from $12.31! new only from $15.31! \| SVS
19 view cover	Collected Songs of Cold Mountain more books like this by Red Pine add to wishlist This authoritative, bilingual edition represents the first time the entirety of Cold Mountain's poetry has been translated into English. Legendary for his clarity, directness, and lack of pretension, the eighth-century hermit-poet Cold Mountain (Han Shan) is a major figure in the history of Chinese literature and has been a profound influence on ... see all copies from $8.84! new only from $10.18! \| signed copies \| SVS
20 view cover	Little pictures of Japan more books like this by Olive Beaupré Miller (Editor) add to wishlist 1925. From the Foreword: Friends of Moon and Winds-so were the Japanese poets called who wrote the tiny poems that comprise the greater part of this book. Dewdrops of smallest compass are they, yet mirroring in vivid flashes the whole of Japanese life. In few words of primitive, childlike simplicity these old sages sang, for the little hokku poems ... see all copies from $6.50! first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology more books like this by Faubion Bowers (Editor) add to wishlist This unique collection spans over 400 years (1488-1902) of haiku history by the greatest masters, in translations by top-flight scholars of the field. Haiku (distilled poems featuring 17 syllables) command enormous respect in Japan. Now readers of poetry in the West can savor these expressive masterpieces in this treasury. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| SVS
22 view cover	Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death more books like this by Zen Monks, Zen Monks, Yoel Hoffmann add to wishlist Presenting a collection of jisel (death poems) composed by Japanese zen monks and haiku poets on the verge of death, this volume also includes background information to aid understanding of the works. see all copies from $7.64! new only from $10.00!
23 view cover	Human Dark with Sugar more books like this by Brenda Shaughnessy add to wishlist "Brenda Shaughnessy's poems bristle with imperatives: 'confuse me, spoon-feed me, stop the madness, decide.' There are more direct orders in her first few pages than in six weeks of boot camp...Only Shaughnessy's kidding. Or she is and she isn't. If you just want to boss people around, you're a control freak, but if you can joke about it, then ... see all copies from $4.25! new only from $8.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Vice: New and Selected Poems more books like this by Ai add to wishlist Collected here are poems from Ai's four early books - "Cruelty", "Killing Floor", "Sin", and "Fate" - along with 17 new poems. Ai takes the reader on a journey into the heart torn from the bared chests of the living and sacrificed to the ravenous dead. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.37! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	East Window: The Asian Translations more books like this by W S Merwin (Preface by) add to wishlist Acclaimed poet W.S. Merwin's translations are as breathtakingly elegant as a Japanese Zen rock garden. The Pulitzer Prize-winner has translated poems and aphorisms from Asian languages as diverse as Urdu, Chinese, Sanskrit, Persian, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and Japanese. see all copies from $4.99! new only from $13.23! \| SVS

Page 1 of 20: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next>

Browse authors

Browse subjects

Our Money-Back Guarantee

We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.

	Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku by William S Higginson see all from $1.99! new only from $4.88!
	One Hundred Poems from the Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth (Translator) see all from $1.99! new only from $5.50!
	Tales told in Holland by Olive Beaupré Miller (Editor) see all from $3.82!
	A Haiku Journey: Bashos Narrow Road to a Far Province by Matsuo Basho, Dorothy Britton (Translator) see all from $1.99! new only from $7.77!
	Lao-Tzu's Taoteching: With Selected Commentaries of the Past 2000 Years by Professor Lao Tzu, Lao-Tzu, Laozi see all from $20.03! new only from $99.00!
	Women in Praise of the Sacred by Jane Hirshfield (Editor) see all from $1.99! new only from $2.25!