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Poetry Library Guide: Asia

This guide provides library and internet resources for the finding, reading, and writing poetry as well as criticism on it.

General

Out of Sri Lanka by Vidyan Ravinthiran (Editor); Seni Seneviratne (Editor); Shash Trevett (Editor)
ISBN: 9781780376738
Publication Date: 2023
The Poem Behind the Poem by Frank Stewart (Editor)
ISBN: 1556592000
Publication Date: 2004
The Rapids of a Great River by Lakshmi Holmström; Subashree Krishnaswamy; K. Srilata (Editor)
ISBN: 0670082813
Publication Date: 2010

China

The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from the Republican Period by Herbert J. Batt (translator); Michel Hockx (writer of introduction)
ISBN: 0773599452
Publication Date: 2016
An Introduction to Chinese Poetry by Michael A. Fuller
ISBN: 9780674977013
Publication Date: 2018
Just a Song by Stephen Owen
ISBN: 9780674987128
Publication Date: 2019
The Shambhala Anthology of Chinese Poetry by J. P. Seaton (Editor)
ISBN: 9781570628627
Publication Date: 2006

India

Classical Telugu Poetry by Velcheru Narayana Rao (Translator); David Shulman (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520225985
Publication Date: 2002

Japan

How to Read a Japanese Poem by Steven D. Carter
ISBN: 0231186827
Publication Date: 2019
Traditional Japanese Poetry by Steven D. Carter (Translator)
ISBN: 9780804715621
Publication Date: 1991
Modern Japanese Haiku: An Anthology by Makoto Ueda (Author)
ISBN: 1487583702
Publication Date: 2020
Pioneers of Modern Japanese Poetry by Takako Lento (Edited and Translated by)
ISBN: 9781939161093
Publication Date: 2019

Korea

The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Korean Poetry by Peter Lee (Editor)
ISBN: 9780231111126
Publication Date: 2003
The Book of Korean Poetry by Kevin O'Rourke
ISBN: 9781587295102
Publication Date: 2006

Additional Poetry

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Chinese Poetry

Japanese Poetry

Korean Poetry