This anthology of Japanese poetry dates from the C10th and became the basis of all later vernacular poetry including haiku. The early literary authors Shikibu and Shonagon drew from it too, ... read more
A novel in verse based on the experiences of the author's great aunt, who went to Canada as an orphan in 1908 where she worked as an indentured servant.
A brilliant journey through a particular vein of literary history, from the C17th onwards. The Golden Treasury, General Wavell, Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Mersey Sound... rich pickings indee... read more
A new translation of the fundamental text of Daoism, much more dynamic than the comfortably gnomic ones of the past. Ziporyn restores its strangeness and philosophical challenges.