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Grass and Tree Cairn

Santōka Taneda

3.8/5 ( ratings)

A failure as a student, businessman, employee, and husband, Santoka wandered through Japan as a mendicant Zen monk for the last quarter of his life. While doing so, he kept writing free-rhythm haiku that ignored the traditional requirements of a seasonal indicator and the set form of 5-7-5 syllables. As a poet struck by wanderlust, Santoka has enjoyed a reputation comparable to Basho since the 1960s. Here, Hiroaki Sato, leading translator of Japanese poetry into English and winner of the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Translation, succeeds in recreating in English Santoka's simplicity and complexity in the original one-line format.

Language: English

Pages: 74

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Red Moon Press

Release: September 01, 2002

ISBN: 1893959287

ISBN 13: 9781893959286

Grass and Tree Cairn

Santōka Taneda

3.8/5 ( ratings)

A failure as a student, businessman, employee, and husband, Santoka wandered through Japan as a mendicant Zen monk for the last quarter of his life. While doing so, he kept writing free-rhythm haiku that ignored the traditional requirements of a seasonal indicator and the set form of 5-7-5 syllables. As a poet struck by wanderlust, Santoka has enjoyed a reputation comparable to Basho since the 1960s. Here, Hiroaki Sato, leading translator of Japanese poetry into English and winner of the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Translation, succeeds in recreating in English Santoka's simplicity and complexity in the original one-line format.

Language: English

Pages: 74

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Red Moon Press

Release: September 01, 2002

ISBN: 1893959287

ISBN 13: 9781893959286

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