{"product_id":"the-pocket-haiku-isbn-9781611801538","title":"The Pocket Haiku","description":"\u003cb\u003eQuintessential classical Japanese haiku--selected and translated by one of America's premier poet-translators--now available in a pocket edition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection of haiku, translator Sam Hamill has compiled the best from the tradition, spanning the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, with particular focus on the three great masters: Bashō, Buson, and Issa. Based on images from nature, the poems address the themes of joy, temporality, beauty, wonder, loneliness, and loss. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaiku may be the most popular and widely recognizable poetic form in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness. Elements of compassion, silence, and a sense of temporality often combine to reveal a quality of mystery. Just as often, haiku may bring a startling insight into the ordinary, or a flash of humor. Collected here are over two hundred of the best haiku of Japanese literature--written by the great masters of the genre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe featured poets are Bashō, Buson, Issa, Moritake, Sōin, Sanpū, Kikaku, Ransetsu, Kyorai, Raizan, Kakei, Onitsura, Taigi, Chiyo, Sogetsuni, Sogi, Fuhaku, Teiga, Kikusha-ni, Tayo-jo, Sōchō, Shōha, and Shiki.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     This is a pocket-size reissue of The Sound of Water (Shambhala, 1995).SAM HAMILL has translated more than two dozen books from ancient Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Latin, and Estonian and is the author of fourteen volumes of original poetry. He has been the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest fund, the Andrew Mellon Fund, and the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission.At the ancient pond\u003cbr\u003ea frog plunges into\u003cbr\u003ethe sound of water\u003cbr\u003e--Bashō\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNobly, the great priest\u003cbr\u003edeposits his daily stool\u003cbr\u003ein bleak winter fields\u003cbr\u003e--Buson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA world of dew, \u003cbr\u003eand within every dewdrop,\u003cbr\u003ea world of struggle\u003cbr\u003e--Issa","brand":"Shambhala","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303606309093,"sku":"NP9781611801538","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781611801538.jpg?v=1767740985","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-pocket-haiku-isbn-9781611801538","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}