One Hundred Frogs
From Matsuo Basho to Allen Ginsberg
$35.76
- Paperback
262 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2013
Summary
No other Asian poetic form has so intrigued and beguiled the English-speaking world as the Japanese haiku. Even before World War I such imagist poets as Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and John Gould Fletcher were experimenting with the form. At that time, Pound well described the haiku as “an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.” Indeed, it is the haiku’s sense of immediacy and its precision that continue to appeal to poets and poetry lovers today.
In recent decades ther…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780834801769 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0834801760 |
| Author: | Hiroaki Sato |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Weatherhill Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 262 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 220mm x 140mm x 17mm |
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About The Author
Hiroaki Sato
Hiroaki Sato has translated numerous collections of the works of Japanese poets. Along with Burton Watson, he translated the distinguished anthology of Japanese poetry From the Country of Eight Islands, for which the two translators were awarded the 1982 P.E.N. Translation Prize.
An accomplished poet in his own right, Mr. Sato served as president of the Haiku Society of America from 1979 to 1981. He was educated in Kyoto and, since 1968, has lived in New York, where he is an associate director of the Japan Trade Center.
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