Search - List of Books by Lucien Stryk
Lucien Stryk is an American Zen poet, translator, and former English professor at Northern Illinois University (NIU).
Stryk was born in Poland, moved to Chicago aged four, and served on the Northern Illinois University faculty from 1958 until his retirement in 1991. He also has taught at universities in Japan, and was a Fulbright lecturer both in Japan and in Iran.
Stryk has written or edited more than two dozen volumes of poetry, collections, and translations of Chinese and Japanese Zen poetry. He has also recorded much of his work on Folkways Records. His poetry has been influenced by Walt Whitman, Paul Éluard, and Basho, and translated into Japanese, Chinese, French, Spanish, Swedish and Italian.
- The Awakened Self: Encounters With Zen, Kodansha International, 1995, ISBN 9781568360461
- Bird of time: Haiku of Basho
- Prairie voices: a collection of Illinois poets, Spoon River Poetry Press, 1980, ISBN 9780933180215
- Encounter With Zen: Writings on Poetry and Zen, Ohio University Press, 1981, ISBN 9780804004053
- (reprint Grove Press, 1994, ISBN 9780802130952)
- Lucien Stryk (ed) Cage Of Fireflies : Modern Japanese Haiku, Swallow Press, 1993, ISBN 9780804009768
Poetry
- Bells of Lombardy, Northern Illinois University Press, 1986, ISBN 9780875801278
- Of Pen & Ink & Paper Scraps, Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1989
- And Still Birds Sing : New & Collected Poems, Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1998, ISBN 9780804010054
Total Books: 34