A House By Itself: Selected Haiku of Shiki
White Pine Press
Will be published approx. on 26. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-1-945680-09-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Shiki's distinctive vision and direct expression make a tone recognizably his own, conveyed beautifully in these pages' translations. We hear Shiki's haiku as the voice of a friend bringing complex news in a few intimate words. These haiku are drawn from a world that feels close to our own, and they bring our own lives and world closer. Shiki's poems are necessary and delicious as mountain water, carrying the mountain's hidden minerals from inside it to inside us." ?Jane Hirshfield, author of The Heart of Haiku and The Ink Dark Moon
Last year's dream
I wake to this year's
reality
Shiki is considered by the Japanese as one of the masters of haiku. He radically reformed the haiku, suggesting "sketching from life" as an aesthetic.
Last year's dream
I wake to this year's
reality
Shiki is considered by the Japanese as one of the masters of haiku. He radically reformed the haiku, suggesting "sketching from life" as an aesthetic.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Buffalo
United States
Edition type
Bilingual edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 177 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
116 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-945680-09-0 (9781945680090)
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Noriko Kawasaki Martinez: Noriko Kawasaki Martinez was born in Osaka, Japan. She majored in English Literature at the Kansai University, Osaka (1970- 1973), was manager and instructor of the HANA English School, Osaka (1976-1982), and translator for the Cultural Center of La Jolla, San Diego, California (1983).