Bøker av Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen

**Chosen for 2020 NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels List****Winner of 2020 Northern Lights Book Award for Poetry****Winner of 2019 Skipping Stones Honor Awards**My First Book of Haiku Poems introduces children to inspirational works of poetry and art that speak of our connection to the natural world, and that enhance their ability to see an entire universe in the tiniest parts of it. Each of these 20 classic poems by Issa, Shiki, Basho, and other great haiku masters is paired with a stunning original painting that opens a door to the world of a child's imagination. A fully bilingual children's book, My First Book of Haiku Poems includes the original versions of the Japanese poems (in Japanese script and Romanized form) on each page alongside the English translation to form a complete cultural experience. Each haiku poem is accompanied by a "e;dreamscape"e; painting by award-winning artist Tracy Gallup that will be admired by children and adults alike. Commentaries offer parents and teachers ready-made "e;food for thought"e; to share with young readers and stimulate a conversation about each work.

Murmured Conversations is the first complete and rigorously annotated translation of Sasamegoto (1463-1464), considered the most representative poetic treatise of the medieval period in Japan because of its thoroughgoing construction of poetry as a way to attain, and signify through language, the mental liberation (satori) that is the goal of Buddhist practice.

Emptiness and Temporality is an account of classical Japanese poetics that takes its starting point in the two Buddhist concepts of emptiness (J. ku) and temporality (mujo) that ground the medieval understanding of poetry, and examines their affinity with contemporary Western theory, particularly Derridean differance and deconstruction.

This literary biography is based primarily on Shinkei's own writings and is supplemented by various external sources. It includes annotated translations of Shinkei's most representative poetry.