Haiku: An Anthology of Japanese Poems

A poetry collection honoring the haiku—complete with poet biographies, translator commentary, and Japanese artwork

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, the anthology goes all the way up to the late twentieth century to provide a survey of haiku through the centuries, in all its minimalist glory.

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