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The Essential Haiku

by Robert Hass, Basho Matsuo, Buson Yosa, Buson Yosano, Issa Kobayashi

ISBN 0880013729 / 9780880013727 / 0-88001-372-9
Publisher Harpercollins
Language English
Edition Hardcover
List price $25.00
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An exquisite collection of the finest works of three distinct masters of the haiku tradition: Matsuo Basho (the ascetic and seeker), Yosa Buson (the artist), and Kobayashi Issa (the humanist).

The editor, Robert Hass, United States poet laureate, is the author of several books of poetry including Human Wishes as well as a book of criticism Twentieth Century Pleasures, for which he received The National Book Critics Circle Award. The book is one of the larger series of poetry collections, Essential Poets Series published by Ecco Press. [via]