Narrow Road to the Interior
by Matsuo Basho | 
On Love and Barley
by Matsuo Basho | 
Japanese Death Poems
by Yoel Hoffmann | 
In the Eyes of the Cat
by Tze-Si Huang | 
The Essential Rumi
by Jalal al-Din Rumi |
The Enlightened Heart
by Stephen Mitchell | 
The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran | 
Four Quartets
by T. S. Eliot |
Love Poems from God
by Daniel James Ladinsky | 
Islamic Mystical Poetry
by Mahmood Jamal | 
The Eye of the Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran |
Walking Away
by Simon Armitage | 
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman | 
The Orchard: The Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz
by Saadi | 
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
by John Donne | 
Bluets
by Maggie Nelson | 
Wandering
by Hermann Hesse | 
The Hatred of Poetry
by Ben Lerner | 
Spirits in Bondage
by C. S. Lewis | 
An Essay on Man
by Alexander Pope |
In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his attempts to cast off earthly attachments and reach out to spiritual fulfillment. The sketches are written in the "haibun" style--a linking of verse and prose. The title piece, in particular, reveals Basho striving to discover a vision of eternity in the transient world around him and his personal evocation of the mysteries of the universe.