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    <body><![CDATA[This is a limited but fantastic sampling of poetry from ancient China and Japan up to the twentieth century...everything from Lao Tzu, Hui Neng, and Li Po to Basho, Issa, and more. Really fantastic. It's published by Shambhala so there's an ostensible focus on Ch'an and, later, on Zen, but there is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11952018">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A nice collection of poetry from China and Japan, along with some helpful introductory material.  The authors explain how not all the poets were actually Zen devotees although they wrote poetry in the Zen tradition.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed the Chinese poems but I found the Japanese translations trying.... as someone who has studied some translation, and done my own translations of Japanese, I favor the literal rather than those preserving the form of the poetry.  The poems of this book were mostly waka and haiku, with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2818017">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful.  I put a few of the poems in the &quot;my quotes&quot; section (how I love this site!), but this is my favorite:<br/><br/>&quot;I'd like to divide <br/>myself in order to see, <br/>among these mountains, <br/>each and every flower <br/>of every cherry tree.&quot; <br/>— Saigyo <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11953518">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I carried this little book in my backpack for years, occasionally pulling it out to read old Chinese and Japanese poems (in translation, of course).  Basho, Tu Fu, and other masterful poets seem as fresh as they must have hundreds of years ago.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I would not read this book without first having a good knowledge base in Zen or Buddhism in general. It is an enjoyable but sometimes trying read, best taken in small spurts of decided interest.]]></body>
    
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