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Books narrated by Jan Meng

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  • The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan

    by Meng Hao-Jan ...
    Translated by David Hinton ...
    The first full flowering of Chinese poetry occurred in the illustrious T’ang Dynasty, and at the beginning of this renaissance stands Meng Hao-jan (689-740 c.e.), esteemed elder to a long line of China’s greatest poets. Deeply influenced by Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, Meng was the first to make poetry from the Ch’an insight that deep understanding lies beyond words. The result was a strikingly distilled ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Odyssey Of Homer

    by Andrew Lang ...
    This book contains one of the most famous literary works in history, "The Odyssey" rendered into beautiful English prose. This book is annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer. ... Read more

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  • Songs of Kabir

    Translated by Arvind Mehrotra ...
    by Wendy Doniger, Kabir ...
    A New York Review Books OriginalTranscending divisions of creed, challenging social distinctions of all sorts, and celebrating individual unity with the divine, the poetry of Kabir is one of passion and paradox, of mind-bending riddles and exultant riffs. These new translations by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, one of India’s finest contemporary poets, bring out the richness, wit, and power of a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Classical Chinese Poetry

    An Anthology

    Edited by David Hinton ...
    "A magisterial book" of nearly five hundred poems from some of history's greatest Chinese poets, translated and edited by a renowned poet and scholar ( New Republic).The Chinese poetic tradition is the largest and longest continuous tradition in world literature. This rich and far-reaching anthology of nearly five hundred poems provides a comprehensive account of its first three millennia (1500 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Classic Haiku

    A Master's Selection

    **SparrowsPlaying hide-and-seekAmong the tea blossoms.-Kobayashi Issa**Haiku, the traditional Japanese verse form composed of seventeen syllables, can express a dramatic scene or philosophical idea in a single line of verse. In this collection, haiku poet Yuzuru Miura has selected and translated poems by past masters such as Basho and Buson, as well as haiku by contemporary poets. Fireflies, ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse

    Translated by Red Pine ...
    by Stonehouse ...
    "The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse [is] a tough-spirited book of enlightened free verse."-Kyoto JournalThe Zen master and mountain hermit Stonehouse-considered one of the greatest Chinese Buddhist poets-used poetry as his medium of instruction. Near the end of his life, monks asked him to record what he found of interest on his mountain; Stonehouse delivered to them hundreds of poems and an ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Consolation of Philosophy (3 Classic Translations by James, Cooper and Sedgefield) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Three Classic Translations on Fortune, Providence, and Free Will

    by Ancius Manlius, Severinus Boethius, Graham Fairmere ...
    Translated by H. R. James, W. V. Cooper, Walter John Sedgefield ...
    The Consolation of Philosophy, presented here in three classic English translations by James, Cooper, and Sedgefield, offers a layered encounter with one of late antiquity's most enduring works. Combining philosophical dialogue, prison meditation, and alternating prose and verse, the text ranges across Fortune, providence, free will, suffering, and the highest good. Its literary power lies in the ... Read more

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  • Four Seasons of T'ang Poetry

    by John C.H. Wu ...
    This substantial collection of Tang Dynasty poetry includes extensive commentary and notes-offering insight into this rich literary heritage."Stretching out my hand I feel the pulse of the stars," wrote Li Po, one of the most famous of the T'ang dynasty poets. This superlative study of the Golden Age of Chinese poetry, based on nearly 50,000 poems written by more than 2,000 poets, captures not ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • New Lao Tzu

    by Ray Grigg ...
    A new interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, this book is a celebration of the Way of Harmony and Balance. Ray Grigg transforms what has been traditionally called the Tao Te Ching, what he calls the Lao Tzu, from the mysterious to the meaningful. He accomplishes this by abandoning the historical convention of a literal reading of the Chinese texts. The result is a poetic expression of ancient wisdom ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

    by Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz ...
    A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in printThe difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • Hundred Thousand Songs

    Selections from Milarepa Poet - Saint of Tibet

    by Antoinette K. Gordon ...
    This collection of Tibetan poetry and lyrics is accompanied by extensive commentary and offers a great insight into a rich literary culture.Tibet, remote and inaccessible, is less known to the western world for its literary than its artistic contributions to world culture. Nevertheless, it has produced a literature of enduring beauty and significance, the supreme achievement of which is the poetry ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Electra

    by Sophocles ...
    Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan war, 'Electra' recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon. ... Read more

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