The Sound of Water
Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets
Shambhala (Publisher)
Published on 14. November 2006
152 pages
978-0-8348-2535-2 (ISBN)
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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. This illustrated collection includes haiku by the great masters from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century.
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The Sound of Water
Haiku - By Basho, Issa and Other Poets
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11/2006
Shambhala Publications Inc
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Haiku - By Basho, Issa and Other Poets
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02/2000
Shambhala Publications Inc
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Sam Hamill has translated more than two dozen books from ancient Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Latin, and Estonian. He has published fourteen volumes of original poetry. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Mellon Fund. He was awarded the Decoración de la Universidad de Carabobo in Venezuela, the Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry from Washington Poets Association, and the PEN American Freedom to Write Award. He cofounded and served as Editor at Copper Canyon Press for thirty-two years and is the Director of Poets Against War.
