The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa by Robert Hass, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa, Matsuo Bashō

The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa

Robert Hass, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa, Matsuo Bashō

352 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction poetry reflective slow-paced
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American readers have been fascinated since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku. The seventeen-syllable form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observati...

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