ENGLISH

Haiku: An Anthology of Japanese Poems

By Stephen Addiss , Fumiko Y. Yamamoto , Akira Y. Yamamoto (editors)

Book information

Publisher
Shambhala Publications
Year
2009
ISBN
1590307305, 9781590307304, 9780834822344
LCC
PL782.E3 H236 2009
Open Library ID
OL23181011M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1938236 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
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Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

This celebration of what is perhaps the most influential of all poetic forms takes haiku back to its Japanese roots, beginning with poems by the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters Basho, Busson, and Issa, and going all the way up to the late twentieth century to provide a survey of haiku through the centuries, in all its minimalist glory. The translators have balanced faithfulness to the Japanese with an appreciation of the unique spirit of each poem to create English versions that evoke the joy and wonder of the originals with the same astonishing economy of language. An introduction by the translators and short biographies of the poets are included. Reproductions of woodblock prints and paintings accompany the poems.

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