Leza Lowitz's Books
Jul.01.2011
These sixty poems on the Buddha's six "perfections," or qualities for a meaningful life—generosity, kindness, patience, joy, stillness, wisdom—were written over years of yoga and meditation practice, inspired by Tibetan Heart Yoga, nature, Buddhism, Osho, Tantra, ancient Japanese and Chinese poetry, Rumi, Kabir, haiku, love, and life. They seek to capture a journey from the...
Sep.29.2008
MANOA: Silence to Light: Japan and the Shadows of War, anthology ofJapanese literature in translation, Volume13, No. 1, Summer 2001. Contains Essays by Donald Richie, IshiiShinpei, Last Letters of Kamikaze Pilots (first-time publication intranslation), Testimonials from Taiwanese “Comfort Women,” Voices ofStudent Nurses from Okinawa forced to commit suicide(survivors) and war-...
Sep.21.2008
Unique Kanji Compendium for graphic design, tattooes, and Japanese language and cultural study. Categories include:
The Way of the Heart, The Way of the Spirit, The Way of the Warrior, The Way of Nature
Sep.21.2008
160 spiritually significant Sanskrit words for yoga, spirituality and meditation.
Sep.21.2008
Twelve stories from twenty-first century Tokyo and a novella. Debut collection from award-winning writer.
Sep.21.2008
Groundbreaking collection of yoga-inspired poetry. Hardcover and paperback editions. French an Farsi translations also available. Editor's pick from Yoga Journal.
Sep.29.1998
Travel-gift-souvenir book of photographs by Narumi Yasuda with text by Leza Lowitz.
Sep.29.1995
MANOA: Towards and Literature of the Periphery-anthology of Japaneseliterature in translation edited by Leza Lowitz, University ofHawaii Press, Volume 7, No. 1 Summer, 1995. Includes fiction by KyokoMurata, Hiromi Itoh, Yoshiko Shibaki, Teru Miyamoto, Ango Sakaguchi.
Sep.23.1994
A thousand years ago, Japanese women court poets created a written aesthetic of unmatchcd elegance and technical skill. Today, Japanese women poets write with equal sophistication in haiku and tanka about romance, family life, sexuality, divorce, loneliness, politics and the West. This first-ever anthology of contemporary Japanese women poets was edited and translated by Leza...
This collection, Volume 2 of the Stone Bridge Anthology of Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry, introduces the work of three dozen of Japan's finest women poets who specialize in free verse. Poets such as Shiraishi Kazuko, Ishigaki Rin, Ibaragi Noriko and Korean-Japanese poets Chuwol Chong, Kyong Mi Park, and Ainu Poet Mieko Chikapp offer something new, employing a variety of...
Filmmaker and Film critic Donald Richie has been observing and writing about Japan from the moment he arrived in Tokyo on New Year's Day, 1947. Detailing his life, his attachments, and his ideas on matters high and low, The Japan Journals is a critically acclaimed record of both a nation and an evolving expatriate sensibility. A friend of the famous--Kawabata, D.T. Suzuki, Mishima...
War poems by Japan's foremost modernist poet and the translator of T. S. Eliot, first time ever in translation.
100 poems about the moon, inspired by the woodblock prints of Yoshitoshi and the author's 40th birthday. Foreword by Donald Richie
Leza Lowitz seeks to share the inner landscape of her yoga journey and to inspire others to take this same journey from individuation to unity. She accomplishes this by capturing the spirit of yoga with strong images and simple free verse firmly grounded in the experience of practice in mind, body, and spirit. This is not the yoga of the hip and trendy, but the yoga of a true seeker-an ordinary woman who has discovered her Self through movement, and has found acceptance and grace through allowing her body and soul to unfold with yoga.
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—Pacific Rim Review of Books
About Leza
Leza Lowitz is a poet, fiction writer, editor and co-translator of Japanese. Lowitz is the recipient of numerous honors for her poetry, fiction, and translations, including the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Best Book of Poetry...
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Causes Leza Lowitz Supports
USHA Foundation
YogaAid
PETA
RoomtoRead
YogaMala