Essential Haiku Volume 20

Name: Essential Haiku Volume 20
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ISBN: 9780880013512

ISBN-10: 0880013516

ISBN-13: 9780880013512

Edition: N/A

Authors: Hass

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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 observation of nature, of making poetry from subtle suggestion. Infused by its great practitioners with the spirit of Zen Buddhism, the haiku has served as an example of the power of direct observation to the first generation of American modernist poets like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and also as an example of spontaneity and Zen alertness to the new poets of the 1950's. This definite collection brings together in fresh translations by an…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.50" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English