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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 895.6132
EAN: 9781570622823
Edition: 1st. Ed
ISBN: 1570622825
Label: Shambhala
Manufacturer: Shambhala
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: March 30, 1999
Publisher: Shambhala
Release Date: March 30, 1999
Studio: Shambhala
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Here is the most complete single-volume collection of writings by one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Includes a masterful translation of Basho's most celebrated work, Narrow Road to the Interior, along with three less well-known works and over 250 of Basho's finest haiku. The translator has included an overview of Basho's life and an essay on the art of haiku.
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[Note: This review appeared July 22, 1999, in the Seattle Weekly and is available online at http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/9929/books-lightfoot.shtml]
The Essential Basho, translated by Sam Hamill. Shambhala, $25 No wonder dreams of journeys are so often associated with death. We travel to leave our lives behind - the familiar workaday parts, anyway - hoping to arrive in a Paradise where our eyes, ears, tongues, maybe even our hearts, will be startled awake. What we really want ... Read More
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As a casual and thorough student of Basho and the Japanese poetic forms of haiku, haibun and renga I've come to believe that Sam Hamill's translations are the best ever. Hamill, as a respected poet in the English language himself, translates the Japanese of Basho into an American English that literally sings.His translation of the opening lines of "Narrow Road to the Interior," included in this volume, is a classic Basho, and classic Hamill: "The moon and the sun are eternal travelers. Even ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 895.6132
EAN: 9781570622823
Edition: 1st. Ed
ISBN: 1570622825
Label: Shambhala
Manufacturer: Shambhala
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 184
Publication Date: March 30, 1999
Publisher: Shambhala
Release Date: March 30, 1999
Studio: Shambhala