{"product_id":"the-pocket-haiku","title":"The Pocket Haiku","description":"\u003cp\u003eQuintessential classical Japanese haiku--selected and translated by one of America's premier poet-translators--now available in a pocket edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of haiku, translator Sam Hamill has compiled the best from the tradition, spanning the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, with particular focus on the three great masters: Bash?, Buson, and Issa. Based on images from nature, the poems address the themes of joy, temporality, beauty, wonder, loneliness, and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaiku may be the most popular and widely recognizable poetic form in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness. Elements of compassion, silence, and a sense of temporality often combine to reveal a quality of mystery. Just as often, haiku may bring a startling insight into the ordinary, or a flash of humor. Collected here are over two hundred of the best haiku of Japanese literature--written by the great masters of the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe featured poets are Bash?, Buson, Issa, Moritake, S?in, Sanp?, Kikaku, Ransetsu, Kyorai, Raizan, Kakei, Onitsura, Taigi, Chiyo, Sogetsuni, Sogi, Fuhaku, Teiga, Kikusha-ni, Tayo-jo, S?ch?, Sh?ha, and Shiki.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a pocket-size reissue of The Sound of Water (Shambhala, 1995).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Outpost","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45971149389871,"sku":"9781611801538","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bcafitnessshop.com\/products\/the-pocket-haiku","provider":"BCA Fitness shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}