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Readability is straightforward throughout this book, with clear meanings and little metaphoric disguise. Light humour and irony are used in many of the poems, but serious topics are described respectfully. The poems cover a variety of aspects of life, including published news items. There is no particular time progression through the pages, topics being in accordance with the chosen headings. A planner may aim at some future, beneficial result, but life has ways of spoiling plans and generat...

This collection of poems by Susan Ring portrays a full and rewarding life, marred by bouts of severe depression. Susan struggled with this depression for most of her life, each outbreak disrupting an otherwise stable and successful career-as first anxiety then the inevitable despair would take hold. Her poems plot the course of these struggles-to weather the storm-as the tumult would take over, usually leading to determined attempts to take her own life, followed by a slow, painful and precariou...

This is the essential English edition of the complete poems of the eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Bashō.   Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese literature and the master of the haiku. Bashō: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō offers in English a full picture of the haiku of Bashō, 980 poems in all. Andrew Fitzsimons’ translation is the first to adhere strictly to form: all of the poems are translated following the syllabic count of t...

In simple, striking verse, legendary poet Gary Snyder weaves an epic discourse on the topics of geology, prehistory, and mythology. First published in 1996, this landmark work encompasses Asian artistic traditions, as well as Native American storytelling and Zen Buddhist philosophy, and celebrates the disparate elements of the Earth - sky, rock, water - while exploring the human connection to nature with stunning wisdom. Winner of the Bollingen Poetry Prize, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievemen...