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The Pocket Haiku by Basho Basho, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Basho Basho

Current price: $13.50
The Pocket Haiku by Basho Basho, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The Pocket Haiku by Basho Basho, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The Pocket Haiku by Basho Basho, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Basho Basho

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Size: 0.39 x 4.46 x 0.125

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Quintessential classical Japanese haiku-selected and translated by one of America's premier poet-translators-now available in a pocket edition. In this collection of haiku, translator Sam Hamill has compiled the best from the tradition, spanning the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, with particular focus on the three great masters: Bashō, Buson, and Issa. Based on images from nature, the poems address the themes of joy, temporality, beauty, wonder, loneliness, and loss. Haiku may be the most popular and widely recognizable poetic form in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness. Elements of compassion, silence, and a sense of temporality often combine to reveal a quality of mystery. Just as often, haiku may bring a startling insight into the ordinary, or a flash of humor. Collected here are over two hundred of the best haiku of Japanese literature-written by the great masters of the genre. The featured poets are Bashō, Buson, Issa, Moritake, Sōin, Sanpū, Kikaku, Ransetsu, Kyorai, Raizan, Kakei, Onitsura, Taigi, Chiyo, Sogetsuni, Sogi, Fuhaku, Teiga, Kikusha-ni, Tayo-jo, Sōchō, Shōha, and Shiki. This is a pocket-size reissue of The Sound of Water (Shambhala, 1995). | The Pocket Haiku by Basho Basho, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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