(Part 2) Best asian poetry books according to redditors
We found 48 Reddit comments discussing the best asian poetry books. We ranked the 30 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Ahh that is the interesting part and a lot of what the show is about. There are some good English translations (and some poor ones). All were from Quốc Ngữ to English though.
There are very few English speaking Nôm scholars. The only ones I know are too busy (or to old) to do it. They have their research agendas.
What’s nuts is even from Chữ Nôm to Quốc Ngữ a lot is lost. Nguyễn Du was being so clever, skillful and cautious with what he wrote. Puns. Sexual innuendo. Political stuff that could have got him killed. He was hiding that in the specific Chữ he chose. Totally brilliant.
By far very best English translation is this one.
https://www.amazon.com/Tale-Kiêu-bilingual-Nguyen-Truyên/dp/0300040512/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=the+tale+of+kieu+english&qid=1570958407&sprefix=the+tale+of+kieu+&sr=8-1
This one is good too but simplified and outdated. Still a classic and beautifully illustrated in its original editions.
https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Poetry-Inside-Kim-Van-Kieu-ebook/dp/B079333VPT/ref=mp_s_a_1_9?keywords=the+tale+of+kieu+english&qid=1570958574&sprefix=the+tale+of+kieu+&sr=8-9
Cheers !!!
https://coneme.red/omiami
https://www.amazon.com/Bazaar-Love-Selected-Poetry-Khusrau/dp/0143420798
Taoism has no qualms with drinking. Here is a book on amazon that is full of Taoist drinking songs and poems. Enjoy.
http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Yoda-Based-Upon-Ching/dp/0983309922/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1458380046&sr=8-2&keywords=the+dharma+of+star+wars
Bonus!
Sounds like you've got a great line of research! Merrill is great. And Yeats and Proust are certainly touchstones, for him and for the culture at large. Dante is another. I assume you've already come across Stephen Yenser's annotations?
Also, if your interest extends from influences on The Book of Ephraim to its legacy and influences on others, definitely check out "I Dream I Am at the Ghat of the Only World," the last poem in the last(ish) volume of poetry by Agha Shahid Ali. It features Merrill speaking from beyond the grave in the ouija-board style typical of The Changing Light at Sandover, ending, e.g., "SHAHID. HUSH. THIS IS ME. JAMES. THE LOVED ONE ALWAYS LEAVES." This poem, like most of that volume, is written in grief over losing his mother to brain cancer. He himself died of the same cancer shortly after the poem was published.
"If Not, Winter" ~by Sappho <3
"Basho's Haiku" by Matsuo Basho (and translated by David Landis Barnhill) I did my college thesis on Basho, and Barnhill is definitely the best translator, imho~ his other translated work,"Basho's Journey", is also wonderful if you're looking for a more diary-style, year in the life, work <3
The Three Cornered World: http://www.amazon.com/Three-Cornered-World-Natsume-Soseki/dp/0895267683
or. 草枕 if you can read J-GO
I found a copy of 'Selected Poems' by Xu Zhimo, so that's a start. I think a lot of the other works you're looking for haven't been translated yet. I did a quick search but it doesn't look like there's an English translation of 象牙戒指. There's copies of Shi's work on amazon but none in English. You might be out of luck for some of them, there isn't a huge market for Chinese to English translations of poetry, especially.
edit: just as a side note, amazon suggests "shipping men" for shi pingmei. um, no, amazon, i most definitely did not mean that
Jack Kerouac wrote Haiku! There's a book and here's a small sample. An example:
In my medicine cabinet,
the winter fly
has died of old age.
Natsume Soseki too. He wrote I am a Cat and Kokoro. I can't find any places that have stock but the book's called Zen Haiku. Here's an example:
On New Year's Day
I long to meet my parents
as they were before my birth.
If you want more Japanese Haiku authors: http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/
Not an answer, but I just wanted to comment on this huge book entirely dedicated to sea slug haiku: Rise, ye sea slugs!. Pretty solid book too, I recommend it.