Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected
format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the
Japanese master.
Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century
Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble
human doings; "Piles of quilts/ snow on distant mountains/ I watch
both," he writes. His work captures both the profound loneliness of
one observing mind and the broad-ranging joy he finds in our
connections to the larger community. David Young, acclaimed
translator and Knopf poet, writes in his introduction to this
selection, "This poet's consciousness affiliates itself with
crickets, islands, monkeys, snowfalls, moonscapes, flowers, trees,
and ceremonies...Waking and sleeping, alone and in company, he
moves through the world, delighting in its details." Young's
translations are bright, alert, musically perfect, and rich in
tenderness toward their maker.
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