Product Description: While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four hundred years before Basho even began to write...read more

Gathers selected poems by three Japanese haiku masters

Gathers selected poems by three Japanese haiku masters

Product Description: The Basho Variations gathers thirty-four translations of Basho s famous haiku. In doing so it enters an august (albeit scanty) lineage of maverick redactions of this poem that include (as inaugural) the frog pond plop by Dom Sylvester Huédard and the fog prondl pop by bp Nichol...read more

Product Description: Here are more than two hundred of the best haiku of Japanese literature translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators. The haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness...read more

Product Description: Basho's Haiku offers the most comprehensive translation yet of the poetry of Japanese writer Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), who is credited with perfecting and popularizing the haiku form of poetry. One of the most widely read Japanese writers, both within his own country and worldwide, Basho is especially beloved by those who appreciate nature and those who practice Zen Buddhism...read more

A selection of haiku expresses the well-known Japanese poet's sense of compassion, humor, and equality with the natural world.

A selection of haiku expresses the well-known Japanese poet's sense of compassion, humor, and equality with the natural world.