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Haiku: An Anthology of Japanese Poems (Shambhala Library) by Stephen Addiss [Addiss, Stephen] is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This celebration of what is perhaps the most influential of all poetic forms takes haiku back to its Japanese roots, beginning with poems by the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters Basho, Busson, and Issa, and going all the way up to the late twentieth century to provide a survey of haiku through the centuries, in all its minimalist glory. The translators have balanced faithfulness to the Japanese with an appreciation of the unique spirit of each poem to create English versions that evok
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- Author
- Stephen Addiss [Addiss, Stephen]
- Publisher
- Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781590307304
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Collections, Literary Fiction, Anthology
- Rating
- 4.09 / 5 (99 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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