Customer Review: Nice book. Good text. Every poem got is little explanation or the translation in Kanji. We learn about poem and history in the same time. It's great. 5/5.
Customer Review: This is a great & comprehensive look at wilderness philospher, beat poet, zen Buddhist Gary Snyder. With poems from Riprap and Turtle Island as well as plenty of essays, this reader is great for anyone interested in beat poetry, wilderness or zen. I recommend this book to anyone with an interest... more info
Customer Review: I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in classical Chinese poetry and language. It is very different from other anthologies of Chinese literature both in approach and in style, and touches upon many essential features of classical Chinese poetry. Each chapter is written by a... more info
Customer Review: The book is probably fine, but I never got to read it. It was sent to the wrong address! (an address I had supplied for a previous order, a gift to a friend.)
Customer Review: Red Pine, Mike O'Connor, and four other translators have opened for us the world of the literary descendants of Han-Shan, poet monks who are most at home in misty hills, wandering with the rivers, enjoying tea over a fire of leaves. Like Japanese haiku, Chinese Zen poetry evokes imagination and... more info
A wonderful book containing succinct translations of Japanese and Chinese poems relating to zen. The book never fails to inspire me to practise zazen or to write a poem. What I love most is the sense of humour so many of the poems have, reminding us how joy and laughter remain crucial to life... more info
Customer Review: I found the notes to the poems particularly valuable - thanks to them, the collection becomes a window into Chinese history and society.
I really miss an index by author, and, as usual, I am ill-at-ease with Red Pine's system of transliteration. It may seem superior to pinyin to the author,... more info
Customer Review: My copy of A Drifting Boat has travelled with me and grown battered and dog-eared and well-worn. Now Seaton has given me another volume to read and re-read, for the poetry, since I'm not an academic, and to recommend to other poetry readers. This is a wonderful book.
Customer Review: No immigrant population has ever been treated as shabbily and violently as the Chinese, who began arriving in large numbers during the California Gold Rush and who were recruited in even larger numbers to build transcontinental railroads, build levees in California, and to supplant African-American... more info
Customer Review: I am not familiar with Chinese literature and this was a wonderful introduction. As just a "read", this had all the action, love and suspense that one could want. It is a very readable translation, and once into the story it became very difficult to set it down. I would recommend it to anyone that... more info
