Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death

by Yoel Hoffmann (Compiler)

Overview

93 Thema Subject Category

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9784805314432
Publisher:	Tuttle Publishing
Publication date:	04/03/2018
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 5.00(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	1220L (what's this?)

About the Author

Celebrated author, editor, and translator, Professor Yoel Hoffmann (1937—2023) is known as one of the leading Western scholars of Zen Buddhism and of Japanese poetry. Hoffman wrote several books on Buddhism and comparative philosophy, including The Sound of the One Hand, Radical Zen: the Sayings of Joshu, and The Idea of Self-East and West. He was the recipient the inaugural Koret Jewish Book Award, the Bialik Prize, and the Prime Minister's Prize.

Editorial Reviews

"It's really just a phenomenal window into an aspect of Japanese culture that I had no exposure to." — Tim Ferris, The Tim Ferris Show

Featured in the New York Times style magazine gift guide

"There is something so otherworldly and beautiful about Japanese poetry, but especially Japanese poetry about death…poetry and prose regarding death, dreams, and memories have an extra weight and heft to them, whilst still being able to maintain an ethereal, dreamy, nostalgic, cozy warm delivery in their thematic idea exploration." —Traveling Book Nerds

"A wonderful introduction to the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems."—Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

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