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A House By Itself: Selected Haiku Of Shiki by John Brandi, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
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A House By Itself: Selected Haiku Of Shiki by John Brandi, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
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Shiki's distinctive vision and direct expression make a tone recognizably his own, conveyed beautifully in these pages' translations. We hear Shiki's haiku as the voice of a friend bringing complex news in a few intimate words. These haiku are drawn from a world that feels close to our own, and they bring our own lives and world closer. Shiki's poems are necessary and delicious as mountain water, carrying the mountain's hidden minerals from inside it to inside us." -Jane Hirshfield, author ofThe Heart of HaikuandThe Ink Dark MoonLast year's dreamI wake to this year'srealityShiki is considered by the Japanese as one of the masters of haiku. He radically reformed the haiku, suggesting "sketching from life" as an aesthetic. " | A House By Itself: Selected Haiku Of Shiki by John Brandi, Paperback | Indigo Chapters