"Quintessential classical Japanese haiku--selected and translated by one of America's premier poet-translators--now available in a pocket edition. In this collection of haiku, translator Sam Hamill h
American readers have been fascinated since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku. The seventeen-syllable form is r
"For a translator to be faithful and readable, as Mr. Merwin always is, is no small achievement."?The New York Times"From Latin to Russian to Japanese, translator [W.S. Merwin]'s oeuvre suggests an in
