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This Is How the Bone Sings
$16.95 Add to cart“THIS IS HOW THE BONE SINGS by W. Todd Kaneko carries the pulse of ancient lament through the boneyards of war and unspeakable trauma. This lyric collection of profound beauty and grief reminds us to
- Author: Kaneko, W. Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1625578180
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Chuya Nakahara: Japan’s Modernist Master (Free Bilingual Audio Recordings)
$24.99 Add to cart“A landmark book that will redefine Nakahara’s place on the international stage.” –Paul Perry, novelist and poet
This definitive bilingual edition of Chuya Nakahara (1907-1937) brings the most dynami- Author: Nakahara, Chuya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 480531897X
- Language: English
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One Hundred Poems from Old Japan: A New Translation of the Hyakunin Isshu [With Free Online Audio Recordings]
$19.99 Add to cart“Translated with both grace and precision, the poems are elegant expressions of the depth of human emotion.” –William Scott Wilson, renowned translator of Japanese literature
In the pale dawn
your col- Author: Freiling, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 4805319232
- Language: English
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The Ten Thousand Leaves: Poems from the Man’yoshu
$26.00 Add to cartA sweeping anthology of classical Japanese poetry, including poems about love, war, trees and mountains, everyday life, and so much more. One of the most important works of Japanese literature of all … [more below]
- Author: Levy, Ian Hideo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1681378906
- Language: English
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A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi
$19.95 Add to cartThe first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English
In 1923, Shuzo Takiguchi’s first year at Tokyo’s Keio University was cut short by the Great Kanto Earthquake, which- Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #156
- Author: Takiguchi, Shuzo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0691263884
- Language: English
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Chronicle of Drifting
$17.00 Add to cartChronicle of Drifting enacts a restless quest for belonging, interweaving dreamlike imagery and Japanese lyricism
Yuki Tanaka’s stunning debut, Chronicle of Drifting, explores rootlessness, its beauty
- Author: Tanaka, Yuki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1556597053
- Language: English
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The Pocket Haiku
$9.95 Add to cartQuintessential classical Japanese haiku–selected and translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators–now available in a pocket edition.
In this collection of haiku, translator Sam Hamill has- Author: Hamill, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 1611801532
- Language: English
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The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
$17.00 Read moreThese translated poems were written by two women 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- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Komachi, Ono No
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 03 1990
- ISBN10: 0679729585
- Language: English
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From the Lost and Found Department: New and Selected Poems
$18.00 Read moreA career-spanning volume that brings together new and selected works by an iconic voice in Canadian literature.
From the Lost and Found Department, by the trailblazing Joy Kogawa, is a profound work- Author: Kogawa, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 077100513X
- Language: English
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Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson
$22.00 Add to cart“Lovers of haiku will rejoice at the arrival of this book, the first complete translation of the collected haiku of Yosa Buson…rendered into English with obvious care and devotion…Through Buson we
- Author: Buson, Yosa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 1556594267
- Language: English
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Tree Spirits Grass Spirits
$19.95 Add to cartA collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito–part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy.
Written between April 2012 and Novembe
- Author: Ito, Hiromi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1643621920
- Language: English
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Shima: Poems
$18.50 Add to cartA vivid, expansive vision of intergenerational witness and repair.
The village is tilting on its axis. It is turning. All its organs are spilling into the bay. shima is a mosaic of the emotional, psyc- Author: Yamagushiku, Sho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0771010923
- Language: English
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Intro to Haiku: An Anthology of Poems and Poets from Basho to Shiki
$17.00 Add to cartHarold G. Henderson was, from 1927 to 1929, the Assistant to the Curator of Far Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art. In 1930 he went to Japan, where he lived the following three years. On hi… [more below]
- Author: Henderson, Harold Gould
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 20 1958
- ISBN10: 0385093764
- Language: English
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Is It Poetry?
$17.95 Add to cartA profound collection of poetry from Japanese poet Toshiko Hirata, expounding on readership and everyday life.
Produced on the same day each month over the course of two years, every poem in Is It Poet
- Author: Hirata, Toshiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1646052730
- Language: English
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Transit Blues
$6.95 Add to cartKeijiro Suga’s Transit Blues ponders wide horizons including man’s relationship with and impact on nature, with the passing of time, and what it is as humans to live in the presence of inevitable decl
- Series: Ipsi Chapbook #16
- Author: Suga, Keijiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 38
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0648685322
- Language: English
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Names and Rivers
$17.00 Add to cartA bilingual Japanese-English presentation of Shuri Kido’s
poetry, co-translated by Pulitzer prize-winner Forrest GanderShuri Kido, known as the “far north poet,” is one of the
most influential contempor- Author: Kido, Shuri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1556596618
- Language: English
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The Pocket Haiku
$12.95 Read moreA collection of classical Japanese haiku selected and translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators.
Haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world due to i- Author: Hamill, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 161180700X
- Language: English
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Bathhouse and Other Tanka
$17.95 Add to cart“Only when a man becomes all naked do you know the shades of his life as an existential being,” writes Tatsuhiko Ishii in his sensuous, exhilarating new collection of poetry Bathhouse and Other Tanka…. [more below]
- Author: Tatsuhiko, Ishii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0811231348
- Language: English
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Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
$14.99 Add to cart“A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics wh
- Author: Hoffmann, Yoel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 03, 2018
- ISBN10: 4805314435
- Language: English
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