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.

Poetry

 * Bells of Lombardy. Northern Illinois University Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0-87580-127-8
 * Of Pen & Ink & Paper Scraps. Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1989.
 * And Still Birds Sing : New and collected poems. Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-8040-1005-4

Non-fiction

 * The Awakened Self: Encounters With Zen, Kodansha International, 1995, ISBN 978-1-56836-046-1
 * Encounter With Zen: Writings on Poetry and Zen, Ohio University Press, 1981, ISBN 978-0-8040-0405-3

Translated

 * Bird of time: Haiku of Basho
 * Lucien Stryk (ed) Cage Of Fireflies : Modern Japanese Haiku, Swallow Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-8040-0976-8
 * Lucien Stryk (ed) Cage Of Fireflies : Modern Japanese Haiku, Swallow Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-8040-0976-8
 * Lucien Stryk (ed) Cage Of Fireflies : Modern Japanese Haiku, Swallow Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-8040-0976-8
 * Lucien Stryk (ed) Cage Of Fireflies : Modern Japanese Haiku, Swallow Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-8040-0976-8
 * Lucien Stryk (ed) Cage Of Fireflies : Modern Japanese Haiku, Swallow Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-8040-0976-8

Edited

 * (reprint Grove Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-8021-3095-2)
 * Prairie voices: a collection of Illinois poets, Spoon River Poetry Press, 1980, ISBN 978-0-933180-21-5