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GCDS-9780872863934 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100593580 02 087286393X 03 9780872863934 15 9780872863934 BC 1 A01 Wilson, John John Wilson b>John Wilson</strong> studied Japanese for four years and has lived in Japan. He teaches Asian and Western literature in the College of Creative Studies at UCSB. He has published his poems in anthologies and journals, and has translated <em>Smoke in the Mountain Valley</em> by Yoshiko Shigekane. His poems are included in <em>Four Dogs: Mountain Songs</em> and have been published in many literary journals.<br> 01 eng 64 01 <P>As if done with sumi ink, these verses by John Wilson are meditative responses to the landscapes of great classical masters. Each poem faces a reproduction of a work by an artist of mythic stature, among them Sesshu, Sesson, Buson, Musashi, Sengai, Shih K'o, Korin, Ku K'ai-chih, Kusumi Morikage, Taiga, and Kung K'ai. The succinct loveliness of the poems seems often as acute as the verses of Li Po and Tu Fu.</P><P><strong>John Wilson</strong> studied Japanese for four years and has lived in Japan. He teaches Asian and Western literature in the College of Creative Studies at UCSB. He has published his poems in anthologies and journals, and has translated <em>Smoke in the Mountain Valley</em> by Yoshiko Shigekane.</P> 02 As if done with sumi ink, these verses by John Wilson are meditative responses to the landscapes of great classical masters. Each poem faces a reproduction of a work by an artist of mythic stature, among them Sesshu, Sesson, Buson, Musashi, Sengai... 08 "And this is so fitting a characterization of what these master artists and this master poet do, in our terrorist twenty-first century, in which we mourn for a more innocent, simpler, more serene world. In these beautiful pages, art triumphs over life." Lawrence Ferlinghetti 08 "Words as precise and exact as the brush strokes he chronicles." Joanne Kyger 08 "These poems and paintings prove a compassionate and delicious company. Their reflective perceptions of the common world make a securing place for all to enter." Robert Creeley 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100593580/images/87286100593580L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100593580/images/87286100593580S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100593580 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20011101 01 7 in 02 5 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20011101 01 02 12.00 USD