Description
University of California Press, hardcover
Publication Date: September 3, 2024
Translated by: Andrew Fitzsimons
Publisher Marketing: A lavish collector’s edition of the complete poems of eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Bash. Matsuo Bash (1644-1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese literature and the master of the haiku. Bash The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bash offers in English a full picture of the haiku of Bash, 980 poems in all.
In Fitzsimons’s beautiful rendering, Bash is much more than a philosopher of the natural world and the leading exponent of a refined Japanese sensibility. He is also a poet of queer love and eroticism; of the city as well as the country, the indoors and the outdoors, travel and staying put; of lonesomeness as well as the desire to be alone.
Bash The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bash reveals how this work speaks to our concerns today as much as it captures a Japan emerging from the Middle Ages. For dedicated scholars and those coming upon Bash for the first time, this beautiful collector’s edition of Fitzsimons’s elegant award-winning translation, with the original Japanese, allows readers to enjoy these works in all their glory.
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