Haiku Harvest

Step into a series of dazzling, funny, melancholy, and joyous moments with this collection of haiku masterworks. Translators Peter Beilenson and Harry Behn approached this volume with the twofold goals of crafting a book of haiku accessible to anyone and rendering their best guess at what the poets would have written in English. Their translations preserve the sublime spirit of each verse, conjuring vivid visual and emotional impressions in spare words. Haiku icon Basho is represented amply here, as are imagery-virtuoso Buson and wry, warm, painfully human Issa. The verses of Shiki, Joso, Kyorai, Kikaku, Chora, Gyodai, Kakei, Izen, and others also appear, illuminated by lovely woodblock prints. Decorations by Peter Hill.

Publisher: Peter Pauper Press
Date Published: 1962
Book Condition: Very good hardcover with closed tears, chipping, surface marks and edge wear to dust jacket. Some minor tanning and marks to boards and front and back endpapers. Previous owner’s name on top of front endpaper. Otherwise, an unmarked copy internally.