Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times : Selected Haiku of Basho
by
Matsuo Basho
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0307962008
ISBN-13
9780307962003
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Imprint
Random House USA Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 2nd, 2013
Print length
128 Pages
Weight
144 grams
Dimensions
13.20 x 20.30 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
PoetryPoetry by individual poets
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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 the larger community. David Young, acclaimed translator and Knopf poet, writes in his introduction to this selection, "This poet''s consciousness affiliates itself with crickets, islands, monkeys, snowfalls, moonscapes, flowers, trees, and ceremonies...Waking and sleeping, alone and in company, he moves through the world, delighting in its details." Young''s translations are bright, alert, musically perfect, and rich in tenderness toward their maker.
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 the larger community. David Young, acclaimed translator and Knopf poet, writes in his introduction to this selection, "This poet''s consciousness affiliates itself with crickets, islands, monkeys, snowfalls, moonscapes, flowers, trees, and ceremonies...Waking and sleeping, alone and in company, he moves through the world, delighting in its details." Young''s translations are bright, alert, musically perfect, and rich in tenderness toward their maker.
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