Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude by Saigyō, Saigyō

Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude

Saigyō, Saigyō with Meredith McKinney (Translator), Meredith McKinney (Translator)

160 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

emotional reflective medium-paced

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Gazing at the Moon presents over one hundred of Saigyō's tanka--traditional 31-syllable poems--newly rendered into English by renowned translator Meredith McKinney. This selection of poems conveys Saigyō's story of Buddhist awakening, reclusion, s...

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