Bumper crop of classical Japanese verse in English
Suddenly this spring, an unexpected flowering of Japanese verse in English. Two Copper Canyon editions of W. S. Merwin: Ten years in the making, the first complete bilingual edition of haiku from Yosa Buson (1716–1783), the successor to Basho and one of the great Haikuists of the Edo period, translated in collaboration with Takako Lento […]
Writers: Basho, David Young, Muso Soseki, W. S. Merwin, Yosa Buson