Modern Japanese Haiku
The West has become familiar with Japanese haiku predominantly through the works of classical masters such as Bashõ, Buson, and Issa. If the leading haiku poets in modern Japan are unknown in the West, it is simply because translations of their works have not been available.
This anthology presents, in English translation, twenty haikus each from the work of twenty modern poets. The writers have b...
The West has become familiar with Japanese haiku predominantly through the works of classical masters such as Bashõ, Buson, and Issa. If the leading haiku poets in modern Japan are unknown in the West, it is simply because translations of their works have not been available.
This anthology presents, in English translation, twenty haikus each from the work of twenty modern poets. The writers have b...
