Book record
Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson
Yosa Buson
Translated from Japanese by W.S. Merwin, Takako Lento
Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson, translated from the Japanese by W.S. Merwin, Takako Lento, brings Yosa Buson's Japanese-language work into English through Copper Canyon Press. Published in 2013, it is best approached as collected poems of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Buson’s collected haiku give the reader a tradition of radical brevity, where season, perception, and painterly exactness carry more than explanation could. Biography and context may deepen the experience, but they do not need to stand in the doorway. Let the poem arrive first, then let the questions follow. Translation here becomes less a matter of loss than of new access: a voice from Japan finding another set of nerves in English.
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Copper Canyon Press
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- ISBN
- 9781556594267