Ikkyu: Crow With No Mouth
Author | : Stephen Berg |
Publisher | : Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2000-09-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1556591527 |
New edition of best-selling Asian title presents the poems of a renowned Zen master.
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Author | : Stephen Berg |
Publisher | : Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2000-09-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1556591527 |
New edition of best-selling Asian title presents the poems of a renowned Zen master.
Author | : Stephen Berg |
Publisher | : Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2012-12-04 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1619320762 |
When Zen master Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481) was appointed headmaster of the great temple at Kyoto, he lasted nine days before denouncing the rampant hypocrisy he saw among the monks there. He in turn invited them to look for him in the sake parlors of the Pleasure Quarters. A Zen monk-poet-calligrapher-musician, he dared to write about the joys of erotic love, along with more traditional Zen themes. He was an eccentric and genius who dared to defy authority and despised corruption. Although he lived during times plagued by war, famine, rioting, and religious upheaval, his writing and music prevailed, influencing Japanese culture to this day. Stephen Berg is the Editor and founder of American Poetry Review. Also available by Stephen Berg Steel Cricket PB $16.00, 1-55659-075-X • CUSA New & Selected Poems PB $12.00, 1-55659-043-1 • CUSA
Author | : Melissa Wiley |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2012-08-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375869824 |
Fox and Crow can agree on two things: their love of cheese and loathing of each other. These cagey animals will do whatever they can to outwit their sworn enemy and claim sole possession of the prized cheese they keep finding. But they are too caught up in their plotting and planning to realize they've picked the wrong house to steal from—since the mother of the house is one fed up Mama Bear who knows exactly how to contend with freeloaders.
Author | : Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo |
Publisher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9789966254917 |
Author | : Sonja Arntzen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2022-03-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781922169402 |
Arntzen's classic study and select translation of the Japanese medieval Zen poetry Crazy Cloud Anthology (Kyōunshū 狂雲集) by the Buddhist monk Ikkyū 一休 (1394-1481) is a carefully revised edition of the 1986 University of Tokyo Press edition which was issued as part of the Japanese series of the UNESCO collection of representative works. This Quirin Press Edition offers the following features: - Fully revised, updated, and expanded by the author. - Contains additional selected poems from Ikkyū's 一休 Kyōunshū 狂雲集 with text in Chinese script, and Japanese kundoku reading in Romanization. - Carefully typeset and proofed for typographical errors and inconsistencies. - Includes a new Preface and Afterword. Keywords: Zen poetry, Japanese -- Translations into English. Ikkyū 一休, 1394-1481. Buddhist monks -- Japan. Ikkyū Sōjun 一休宗純 (1394-1481), Zen monk and poet, is an unconventional figure in Japanese literary history. An eccentric personality, he raged at the corruption and hypocrisy of the wealthy Zen monastic system of his day. Defiantly living outside that institution for much of his life, his community included artists, actors, and women entertainers/ brothel girls. Many of his poems have sexual desire at their core, engaging with it as a kōan. Authentic Zen master as well as sensual lyricist, Ikkyū created some of the most original poetry in the entire Zen tradition. Translations from the Crazy Cloud Anthology, or Kyōunshū 狂雲集, Ikkyū's major collection of poetry in literary Chinese, form the core of this work. Ikkyū's biography and historical context of medieval Japan are outlined in the first part of the introduction. The analysis sections provide a portal for the reader to enter the world of the poems by demonstrating how Ikkyū's poetry produces experiences of Zen most often through the dialectical use of allusion. Ikkyū's non-conformism in response to a troubled, uncertain time will strike a sympathetic chord in the modern reader. Students of Japanese literature and religion, culture and history will find Ikkyū an engaging figure. And lovers of poetry will be inspired by his candour and free spirit. Originally published by University of Tokyo Press in 1986 as part of the Japanese series of the UNESCO collection of representative works, the present Quirin Press edition both augments and revises this seminal exploration of Ikkyū's key poetic output.
Author | : William H. Chafe |
Publisher | : New Press, The |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2014-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1620970430 |
This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review). Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Oral History Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever compiled of African American life under segregation. Men and women from all walks of life tell how their most ordinary activities were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression. Yet Remembering Jim Crow is also a testament to how black southerners fought back against systemic racism—building churches and schools, raising children, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a society that denied them the most basic rights. The result is a powerful story of individual and community survival.
Author | : Ikkyū |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2015-06-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 047205256X |
A volume of selected poems by Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun (1394–1481), translated into English
Author | : Sarah Sousa |
Publisher | : Parlor Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2015-01-06 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 160235636X |
“The poems of Sarah Sousa’s Split the Crow employ archaeology as a means of giving voice not only to the land, but to long-gone peoples. We discover the objects that individuals were equipped with for their final journeys, as well as witnessing their tales. Sousa’s work picks up where conventional history has left off, giving voice to urgent testimonies. ‘The Lost People,’ states, ‘On the train coming east, / not knowing what else to do, boys sang / the death songs our warriors sang riding into battle,’ just one of many instances where Native American accounts find a ready home in Sousa’s poetry. Split the Crow is a collection of tremendous magnitude that calls upon the past as a way to reconsider our present moment.” —Mary Biddinger