Pocket Haiku - Sam Hamill
Pocket Haiku - Sam Hamill Quintessential classical Japanese haiku--selected and translated by one of America's premier poet-translators--now available in a pocket edition.In this collection of haiku,…
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Pocket Haiku - Sam Hamill
Quintessential classical Japanese haiku--selected and translated by one of America's premier poet-translators--now available in a pocket edition.In this collection of haiku, translator Sam Hamill has compiled the best from the tradition, spanning the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, with particular focus on the three great masters: Bashō, Buson, and Issa. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness. Based on images from nature, the poems address the themes of joy, temporality, beauty, wonder, loneliness, and loss.Haiku may be the most popular and widely recognizable poetic form in the world.
Just as often, haiku may bring a startling insight into the ordinary, or a flash of humor. Elements of compassion, silence, and a sense of temporality often combine to reveal a quality of mystery. Collected here are