On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho by Matsuo Bashō

On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

Matsuo Bashō with Lucien Stryk (Translator)

92 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction poetry reflective slow-paced
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His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the smallness of human life ...

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