The lyrical world of Chinese poetry in faithful translations by Kenneth Rexroth. The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Acro

A collection of Japanese poems accompanied by their English translations.

An assemblage of delicate Chinese verse which delicately explore the worlds of love, nature, and meditation.

It is remarkable that any Westerner—even so fine a poet as Kenneth Rexroth—could have captured in translation so much of the subtle essence of classic Japan

The original texts are presented in romaji, the transliteration into the Western alphabet, in this collection representative of a wide range of classical, medie