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(★)(´PO-0138´ es el mismo libro./ Westerners have long been fascinated by haiku, the traditional Japanese verse form composed of seventeen syllables. These miniature masterpieces can express a dramatic scene or philosophical idea in a single line of verse. In this collection, haiku poet Yuzuru Miura has selected and translated poems by past masters like Bashoo and Buson, as well as haiku by contemporary poets./ Fireflies, pheasants, a summer shower, winter snow, camellias --all the favorite haiku subjects are included among the one hundred poems of this impressive new anthology./ ◆Yuzuru Miura graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo, where he first majored in political science and later switched to English literature. He is now a professor at Chukyo University in Nagoya. His speciality is Anglo-Irish literature, particularly the works of Jonathan Swift. Miura´s ´Suuifuto kanken (A glimpse of Swift)´ was published in 1984.) |