Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson
By: Yosa Buson
4.15
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
"Lovers of haiku will rejoice at the arrival of this book, the first complete translation of the co…
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1. My Year of Meats
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.02
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industri… read more
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- japan
"You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed."-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"When I'd put enough distance between us, it occurred to me that I was probably the only person in the history of the world who has ever recalled Shōnagon in a strip joint in Texas. I liked that"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general glut of bad news over which we, as citizens, have so little…"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If w…"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
2. Schoolgirl
By: Osamu Dazai , Allison Markin Powell , Adam L. Kern , None
4.02
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Osamu Dazai's 1939 novella depicts a day in the life of a Tokyo schoolgirl. Propelling Dazai into t… read more
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- japanese literature
- japan
"I yearned for everything long gone."-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl
"Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late."-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl
"Mornings are grey. Always the same. Absolutely empty."-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl
"Good night. I'm Cinderella without her prince. Do you know where to find me in Tokyo? You won't see me again."-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl
3. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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- poetry
"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
4. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
5. Mountain Tasting : Zen Haiku by Santōka Taneda
By: Santōka Taneda , John Stevens
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection presents the Zen haiku of Santoka (1880-1940), whose poetry is free-style. read more
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- poetry
- japanese literature
- japan
6. Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The poetry and prose collected in Plainwaterare a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Ann… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
7. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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- poetry
8. Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
By: Matsuo Bashō , David Young
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well a… read more
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- poetry
- japanese literature
- japan
9. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
By: Nyogen Senzaki , Paul Reps
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When Zen Flesh, Zen Boneswas published in 1957 it became an instant sensation with an entire genera… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
10. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
By: Sappho , Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more
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- poetry
11. Basho: The Complete Haiku
By: Matsuo Bashō , Shiro Tsujimura , Jane Reichhold
4.30
Format: None pages, Hardcover, Sewn Binding, Paper Dust Jacket
Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese l… read more
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- poetry
- japanese literature
- japan
12. Japanese Haiku (Japanese Haiku Series I)
By: Matsuo Bashō , Kobayashi Issa , Yosa Buson , Shiki , None , None , None
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Step into a series of dazzling, funny, melancholy, and joyous moments with this collection of haiku… read more
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13. The Satanic Verses
By: Salman Rushdie
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Versesis Salman Rushdi… read more
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14. The Complete Poems
By: Kenneth Rexroth , Bradford Morrow , Sam Hamill
3.61
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexrothassembles all of his published longer and shorter poems, and i… read more
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15. Shakespeare's Sonnets
By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more
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16. Foundation (Foundation, #1)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.17
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series Fo… read more
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"Past glories are poor feeding."-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
"Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. "-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
"I shall not be alive a half decade hence,"-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)
17. Thousand Cranes
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker
3.71
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousa… read more
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- japanese literature
- japan
"Гріх ніколи не змиєш, а горе минає."-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes
"Коли вона померла, я з жалем подумала: навіть якщо її не розуміли, то все одно смерть не можна виправдати. Смерть виключає будь-яку надію на порозуміння."-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes
"Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate."-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes
"– Понимаете, Кикудзисан, человек не может быть благоразумным и мудрым, если в нем слишком сильно мужское или женское начало. – Да? Значит, мудрость среднего пола? – Иронизируете? Ну, ну… Однако, когд…"-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes
18. Beauty and Sadness
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Howard Hibbett
3.81
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Beauty and Sadness (Japanese: Mei shisatoAi shimito Utsukushisa to kanashimi to) is a 1964 novel by… read more
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19. Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings
By: Matsuo Bashō , Sam Hamill
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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20. The Secret Lives of Color
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hu… read more
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- nonfiction
"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color
21. A Woman's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
4.23
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more
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- nonfiction
"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
22. The Book of Form and Emptiness
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.03
Format: 548 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more
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"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness
23. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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- nonfiction
- japanese literature
- japan
"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
24. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.95
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating … read more
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"To wielka tajemnica, że każde wyzwanie uruchamia w nas prawdziwie żywotne siły"-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
25. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
26. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.58
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more
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- nonfiction
"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
27. The Flowers of Buffoonery
By: Osamu Dazai
3.83
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Hu… read more
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- japanese literature
- japan
"But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"Hacían reír a otros. Querían provocar la risa en otros a cualquier precio, incluso a costa de su propio dolor."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"It was only natural for Yozo to vacillate when asked about the reason behind his suicide – it was everything to him."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"The next morning was peaceful and clear. The sea was calm. White smoke from the volcano on Oshima, just above the horizon, drifted up into the sky. Never mind. I hate describing scenery."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
28. Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson
By: Yosa Buson
4.15
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
"Lovers of haiku will rejoice at the arrival of this book, the first complete translation of the co… read more
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29. An I-Novel
By: Minae Mizumura
4.01
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel is a semi-autobiographical work that takes place over the course of a s… read more
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- japanese literature
- japan
30. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
By: Joy Harjo
4.56
Format: 458 pages, Paperback
United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"Maybe it is the thunders who breathed life into my body. They are forever wanting to lift me high and carry me away." -Prodigal Daughters (Kimberly Wesnaut)"-Joy Harjo, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
"Home is elusive. It shapeshifts with the currents of my heart and its will. Home is a trickster changing according to the medicine of the season and its lesson." -Prodigal Daughters (Kimberly Wesnaut)"-Joy Harjo, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
31. Phantom Pain Wings
By: Kim Hyesoon
4.02
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Winged ventriloquy―a powerful new poetry collection channeling the language of birds by South Korea… read more
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