Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho - Matsuo Basho - Books - Random House USA Inc - 9780307962003 - April 2, 2013
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Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho Tra edition

Matsuo Basho

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Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho Tra edition

Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master.

Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; "Piles of quilts/ snow on distant mountains/ I watch both," he writes. His work captures both the profound loneliness of one observing mind and the broad-ranging joy he finds in our connections to the larger community. David Young, acclaimed translator and Knopf poet, writes in his introduction to this selection, "This poet's consciousness affiliates itself with crickets, islands, monkeys, snowfalls, moonscapes, flowers, trees, and ceremonies... Waking and sleeping, alone and in company, he moves through the world, delighting in its details." Young's translations are bright, alert, musically perfect, and rich in tenderness toward their maker. 


106 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released USA, April 2, 2013
ISBN13 9780307962003
Publishers Random House USA Inc
Pages 128
Dimensions 203 × 132 × 15 mm   ·   146 g
Language English  
Translator Young, David

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