White Pine Press: 9 books

The "us" of Frost's title evokes both the intimacy of lovers and the anonymity of strangers, the negotiations of domestic life and the chance encounters that shape our daily, public lives."The persistence of bad dreams, the meaning of illness, the acquaintances and the distractions of apartment life...

Few writers are as integrally bound to a place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra on Chile’s coast. From his arrival there in the late 1930s to his death in 1973, Neruda captured Isla Negra in images fundamental to an understanding of his work. It was, according to Martin Espada, at...

As writer, Kyun was an inheritor of the Chinese Tang style, becoming one of its first and foremost promulgators in Korea. The poems in this book portray issues of social justice, artistic legacy and purpose, and the daily life of a Korean nobleman in the middle years of Korea's Choson Dynasty. A selection...

“These are poems of remarkable liveliness. In their wide-ranging wit and passion for language, their surprising juxtapositions of the ordinary and the exalted, and their willingness to foreground doubt in a search for meaning, they show a fellowship with the work of Dickinson that is deep without ever...

"The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences."—Seng-ts'anThe Hsin-Hsin Ming, Verses on the Faith-Mind by Seng-ts'an, the third Chinese patriarch of Zen, is considered to be the first Chinese Zen document. Lucidly translated here by Richard B. Clark, it remains one of...

“The beauty of these stories is the simplicity of the image-invoking writing. As states in the preface, the Korean style of literature can be compared to ‘watching a gentle ripple on a pond.’” —Copley News Service “Ick-suh Yoo’s story… is the anthology’s high point, partially because...

“Reading poems from another language, culture, and century, I often feel like a foreigner excluded from the original’s greatest subtleties. Not so in Hyesim’s miraculous time-traveling poems, which might have been written yesterday or tomorrow, and anywhere. There’s not a single opaque word in...

One Day, Then Another is dedicated to giving voice to the voiceless. His poetic task is to find a way to honor the weak and disenfranchised. He does not rush headlong to expose them, but takes small cautious steps through the cracks into the hidden world. Then, in full empathy, he becomes part of that...

Orozco’s stories portray, in impressionistic, and dreamy language, a childhood spent in a small town on the Argentine pampa. “This is a gem of a collection of Olga Orozco stories, beautifully rendered into English. This wise selection of stories reveals Orozco's lyrical as well as mysterious prose....