Haiku of Basho (Penguin Classics)
by Matsuo Basho
appears in Poetry, Poetry, and Fiction.
Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a lifelong traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world the ch...
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