The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa (Essential Poets)
The Ecco Press, October 1995. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. 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.....