Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times

Selected Haiku of Basho

Matsuo Basho, David Young

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Random House USA Inc
02 April 2013

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

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.

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 broad-ranging joy he finds in our connections to the larger community. David Young, acclaimed translator and Knopf poet, writes in his introduction to this selection, ""This poet's consciousness affiliates itself with crickets, islands, monkeys, snowfalls, moonscapes, flowers, trees, and ceremonies...

Waking and sleeping, alone and in company, he moves through the world, delighting in its details."" Young's translations are bright, alert, musically perfect, and rich in tenderness toward their maker.

By: Matsuo Basho
Translated by: David Young
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 147g
ISBN: 9780307962003
ISBN 10: 0307962008
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 02 April 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Young has written eleven previous books of poetry, including, most recently, Black Lab and Field of Light and Shadow- Selected and New Poems. He is a well-known translator of the Chinese poets as well as the poems of Petrarch and Eugenio Montale. A past winner of the Guggeheim and NEA Fellowships as well as a Pushcart Prize, Young is the Longman Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Oberlin College and the editor of the Field Poetry Series at Oberlin College Press.