Beautifully written, yet sad about the life and poems of the greatest Haiku poet in Japan: Matsuo Bashō. The author is very skillful at arranging the poem and his life event, as well as explaining how and why it was made.Furthermore, it is not only a tiny lovely book about Bashō and Haiku, but al...
This something in me took to writing poetry years ago, merely to amuse itself at first, but finally making it its lifelong business. It must be admitted, however, that there were times when it sank into such dejection that it was almost ready to drop its pursuit, or again times when it was so puf...
It is like an hour. Any hour. This one. Something happens, much does not. Or as always, everything happens: the standing walls keep standing with their whole attention. A noisy crow call lowers and lifts its branch, the crow scent enters the leaves, enters the bark, like stirred-in honey gone int...