The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets by Sam Hamill

The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets

Sam Hamill with Kaji Aso

152 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

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Here are more than two hundred of the best haiku of Japanese literature translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators. The haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world. In just three lines a great haik...

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