Basho by Basho, Andrew Fitzsimons - 9780520400733

University of California Press

BashoThe Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho (Collectors Edition)\nAuthor(s): Basho, Andrew Fitzsimons\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of California Press, United States\nImprint: University of California Press\nISBN-13: 9780520400733, 978-0520400733\nSynopsis\nA lavish collectors edition of the complete poems of eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Bash??with a new index that contains the full Japanese text of the original poems.\n\n Matsuo Bash? [tel] is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese literature and the master of the haiku. Bash?: The Complete Haikuof Matsuo Bash? offers in English a full picture of the haiku of Bash?, 980 poems in all.\n In Fitzsimonss beautiful rendering, Bash? is much more than a philosopher of the natural world and the leading exponent of a refined Japanese sensibility. He is also a poet of queer love and eroticism; of the city as well as the country, the indoors and the outdoors, travel and staying put; of lonesomeness as .