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Presents the poems that combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation and evoke the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the smallness of human life in comparison to the vastness and drama of nature.
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Penguin Classics: On Love and Barley, Matsuo Bashō, Lucien Stryk
- Language
- Released
- 1985
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Penguin Classics: On Love and Barley
- Subtitle
- Haiku of Basho
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Matsuo Bashō, Lucien Stryk
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 1985
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 96
- ISBN10
- 0140444599
- ISBN13
- 9780140444599
- Series
- Description
- Presents the poems that combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation and evoke the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the smallness of human life in comparison to the vastness and drama of nature.