Issa's Best: A Translator's Selection of Master Haiku

by Issa Kobayashi, David G. Lanoue (Translator)

Overview

This book is a guided tour through the work of Japanese haiku master Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828), gathering together in one text his most effective and evocative verses. After an introduction to Issa's poetry and life, the translator, David G. Lanoue, presents 1,210 haiku culled from his on-line archive of 10,000. Lanoue writes, "Issa is a poet who speaks to our common humanity in a way that is so honest, so contemporary, his verses might have been written this morning. Bashô is the most revered of the haiku poets of Old Japan, but Issa is the most loved."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015675399
Publisher:	Haikuguy.com
Publication date:	09/15/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	908,400
File size:	48 KB

About the Author

Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) is one of the great haiku poets of Japanese tradition.