The Pocket Haiku - Couverture souple

Basho; Buson; Issa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1611801532 ISBN 13 : 9781611801538

Editeur : Shambhala, 2014

Synopsis

Quintessential classical Japanese haiku--selected and translated by one of America's premier poet-translators--now available in a pocket edition.

In this collection of haiku, translator Sam Hamill has compiled the best from the tradition, spanning the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, with particular focus on the three great masters: Bashō, Buson, and Issa. Based on images from nature, the poems address the themes of joy, temporality, beauty, wonder, loneliness, and loss.

Haiku may be the most popular and widely recognizable poetic form in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness. Elements of compassion, silence, and a sense of temporality often combine to reveal a quality of mystery. Just as often, haiku may bring a startling insight into the ordinary, or a flash of humor. Collected here are over two hundred of the best haiku of Japanese literature--written by the great masters of the genre.

The featured poets are Bashō, Buson, Issa, Moritake, Sōin, Sanpū, Kikaku, Ransetsu, Kyorai, Raizan, Kakei, Onitsura, Taigi, Chiyo, Sogetsuni, Sogi, Fuhaku, Teiga, Kikusha-ni, Tayo-jo, Sōchō, Shōha, and Shiki.

     This is a pocket-size reissue of The Sound of Water (Shambhala, 1995).

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

SAM HAMILL has translated more than two dozen books from ancient Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Latin, and Estonian and is the author of fourteen volumes of original poetry. He has been the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest fund, the Andrew Mellon Fund, and the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission.

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At the ancient pond
a frog plunges into
the sound of water
--Bashō

Nobly, the great priest
deposits his daily stool
in bleak winter fields
--Buson

A world of dew,
and within every dewdrop,
a world of struggle
--Issa

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shambhala
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1611801532
• ISBN 13: 9781611801538
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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