On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho by Matsuo Bashō

On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

Matsuo Bashō with Lucien Stryk (Translator)

92 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction poetry reflective slow-paced
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Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural ...

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