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The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa (Essential Poets, Vol 20)
The Essential Haiku Versions of Basho Buson and Issa - Essential Poets, Vol 20
Author: Robert Hass (Editor)
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 observation of nature, of making poetry from subtle suggestion. Infused by its great practitioners with the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780880013727
ISBN-10: 0880013729
Publication Date: 7/1/1994
Pages: 329
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Publisher: Ecco
Book Type: Hardcover
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