Download or read book Knowing the East written by Paul Claudel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-19 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These prose poems were written by Claudel over ten years in his travels through China and Japan in the 19th century. In his translation, James Lawler presents Claudel as a poet who discovered himself in his experience of the East. He gives a detailed introduction, notes on the poet and the poems.