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A talented young poet's celebratory dance despite the melancholy of personal and global degradation.

Acclaimed poet W.S. Merwin's translations are as breathtakingly elegant as a Japanese Zen rock garden. The Pulitzer Prize-winner has translated poems and aphorisms from Asian languages as diverse as Urdu, Chinese, Sanskrit, Persian, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and Japanese.

Carruth is a people's poet, readily understood, a tribune of our common humanity, welfare, and plight.--"The Nation

A spectacular new collection by one of the most exciting and distinctive poets currently writing.

When Zen master Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481) was appointed headmaster of the great temple at Kyoto, he lasted nine days before denouncing the rampant hypocrisy he saw among the monks there. He in turn invited them to look for him in the sake parlors of the Pleasure Quarters. A Zen monk-poet-calligrapher-musician, he dared to write about the joys of erotic love, along with more traditional Zen themes. He was an eccentric and genius who dared to defy...

Paperback edition of prize-winning collected poems, "Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets." --New York Times