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This is the essential English edition of the complete poems of the eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Bashō. Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694) is...

An old pond;a frog jumps in: the sound of water -- Basho This comprehensive introduction to Japan's best-loved haiku poets is the perfect book for...

Here are over 800 haiku by Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed Native Son...

"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, d...

Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karu...

Scifaikuest is a quarterly digest of minimalist poetry themed to speculative, science fiction, and fantasy. Poetic forms include scifaiku, tanka, h...

Sanki Saitō, born in western Japan in 1900, is a towering figure in twentieth-century haiku. Although he did not begin to write haiku until the age...

A collection of 108 haiku poems to heighten awareness and deepen our appreciation for the ordinary in everyday life Haiku, the Japanese form of p...

A collection of classical Japanese haiku selected and translated by one of America's premier poet-translators.Haiku is one of the most popular an...

An autobiographical blend of prose and haiku from one of Japan's greatest poets.Kobayashi Issa (1763–1827), along with Bashō and Buson, is consid...