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Poet: Kobayashi Issa
Poem: All the time I pray to Buddha
Volume: The Essential Haiku
Year: Published/Written in 1994
Comment 1 of 1, added on February 27th, 2006 at 5:39 PM.
These Kobayashi Issa haiku are like those wonderful cinematic snippets that make you hold your breath at the theater. Observation, complex emotion presented in visual images, then actually driven home to us, the observer/reader, in the sparest verbalization imaginable.
Judith from United States
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These Kobayashi Issa haiku are like those wonderful cinematic snippets that make you hold your breath at the theater. Observation, complex emotion presented in visual images, then actually driven home to us, the observer/reader, in the sparest verbalization imaginable.
Judith from United States