Unforgotten Dreams: Poems by the Zen Monk Shotetsu / Edition 1

by Shotetsu, Steven D. Carter

Overview

— The Japan Times

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231105767
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	01/17/1997
Series:	Translations from the Asian Classics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Steven D. Carter is Professor of Japanese Literature and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Irvine.

What People are Saying About This

Edward Kamens

These translations, along with Carter's earlier contributions to our understanding of Shotetsu, should lead other scholars and students to further intensive study of this great poet's work.

Editorial Reviews

[This is] a collection which captures and preserves something of what must have been the illuminating lyric contrast, the unexpected merging, which is of all poets. This fine edition comes with an introduction, a glossary, a source list and an index of the first lines of all the poetry included.

Japan Times

These translations, along with Carter's earlier contributions to our understanding of Shotetsu, should lead other scholars and students to further intensive study of this great poet's work.

Edward Kamens