Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho

by Matsuo Bashō

Book Overview

Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master.

Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; "Piles of quilts/ snow on distant mountains/ I watch both," he writes. His work captures both the profound loneliness of one observing mind and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307962008
• ISBN13: 9780307962003
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.0"