Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times
Selected Haiku of Basho
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
2 April 2013
Summary
Vivid new translations of Basho’s popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master.
Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; “Piles of quilts/ snow on distant mountains/ I watch both,” he writes. His work captures both the profound loneliness of one observing mind and the broad-ranging joy he finds in our connections to th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307962003 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0307962008 |
| Author: | Matsuo Basho, David Young |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2013 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 10mm |
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About The Author
Matsuo Basho
David Young has written eleven previous books of poetry, including, most recently, Black Lab and Field of Light and Shadow- Selected and New Poems. He is a well-known translator of the Chinese poets as well as the poems of Petrarch and Eugenio Montale. A past winner of the Guggeheim and NEA Fellowships as well as a Pushcart Prize, Young is the Longman Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Oberlin College and the editor of the Field Poetry Series at Oberlin College Press.
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