Here is how Rilke spins a tale, as if in passing, barely noticing the blast and the crater left by his handful of lines: It was already...

When the full collection is read as such, one doesn't just read the poems but also, obscurely, the man behind ...

Very simple deal: Bashō writes a haiku, and I respond with another or two. A mini compilation to celebrate this fall and/or to succumb to...

the 2012 Penguin Classics edition, translated from Russian by Dimitri Nabokov in collaboration with Nabokov himself. [It should be noted...

(14th-century Japanese classic by Yoshida Kenkō, translated by Meredith McKinnney, Penguin Books, 2013; obviously, the "best" refers...

"A beginner should not hold two arrows.... You will be careless with the first, knowing you have a second."