Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter

From the editors of Zen Poems of China and Japan comes the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind to appear in English.

This collaboration between a Japanese scholar and an American poet has rendered translations both precise and sublime, and their selections, which span fifteen hundred years—from the early T'ang dynasty to the present day—include many poems that have never before been translated into English. Stryk and Ikemoto offer us Zen poetry in all its diversity: Ch...