A biography and introduction to the work of the Japanese haiku poet whose love for nature finds expression in the more than thirty poems included in this book.
From blueberries to vanilla, indigenous foods of the Americas are celebrated in this collection of haiku, which also includes information about each food's origins.
A collection of haiku by seventeenth-century Japanese writer Matsuo Bash?, with literal translations into English and an overview of the poetic form and its emphasis on nature as a theme and extensive notes on the allusions and references of each piece.