Basho's Ghost

by Sam Hamill

Embodied among travel sketches and portraits of people and places visited during his 1988 stay in Japan on a Japan-U.S. Fellowship, Sam Hamill presents a reading of Japanese poetry beginning with the eighteenth-century anthology, Man'yoshu, tracing the development of the Japanese poetic imagination up through the seventeenth-century poet Basho, the eighteenth-century monk/poet Ryokan, and concluding with Japan's first Mondernist poet, Takamura Kotaro...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887484107
• ISBN13: 9780887484100
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
• Length: 129 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 8.5"