Zen Poetry The Penguin Book of

About this book

Jointly translated by a Japanese scholar and an American poet this collection spans 1500 years - from the early Tang 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. Japans 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.