The Spring of My Life: And Selected Haiku by Kobayashi Issa (1997, Paperback)

  

  

 

The Spring of My Life: And Selected Haiku

by Kobayashi Issa

EAN: 9781570621444

ISBN: 1570621446

Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated

1997, Paperback

Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.5 x 5.5 inches

Pages: 188

Language: English


Book Overview

"Issa's renowned Spring of My Life has found a brilliant voice in Sam Hamill. These poems have the quiet dominance of the moon."

-JIM HARRISON, author of Legends of the Fall and After Ikkyu

Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), along with Basho and Buson, is consid ered one of the three greatest haiku poets of Japan, known for his attention to poignant detail and his playful sense of humor. Issai most-loved work, The Spring of My Life, is an autobiographical skets of linked prose and haiku in the tradition of Basho's famous Narro Road to the Interior.

In addition to The Spring of My Life, the translator has included more than 160 of Issa's best haiku and an introduction providing essential information on Issa's life and valuable comments on tran lating (and reading) haiku.

SAM HAMILL is one of America's premier poct-translators and the author of over thirty books of poetry, translations, and essays, including River of Stars: Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko (with Keiko Matsui Gibson) and Destination Zero: Poems 1970-1995.

 

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