Poetry : Books

Includes the best in Chinese verse covering 3,000 years from the Zhou through the Qing Dynasties.

An informed introduction to major modern trends in Urdu poetry.

The selections from these five poets constitute some of the greatest lyric poetry ever written.

Haiku by the Japanese masters: Basho, Issa, Buson, Shiki with superb examples from nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers.

Ranges from the writings of ancient China to those of modern-day America.

A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet.

Includes the English-speaking world, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America.

This collection features translated works from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Turkish.

Internationally celebrated poets who have rarely, if ever, been translated into English.

In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world.

Wang was the consummate master of the short imagistic landscape poem that came to typify classical Chinese poetry.

More than 1600 poems drawn from dozens of languages and cultures, spanning a period of more than 4000 years from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century.