Cummings, Alan - Haiku : Love [Publisher: United Kingdom];

Cummings, Alan - Haiku : Love [Publisher: United Kingdom];

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• A selection of much-loved haiku, a type of Japanese poem characterized by 17 syllables, focusing on the theme of love
• Haiku poems about the natural world and the seasons are well known, but many poets have used the genre to capture the evocations of love
• From the tender and the melancholy to the witty and the ribald, the poems and images in Haiku: Love comment on the most universal of human emotions
• The majority of the poems featured date from the Tokugawa period (early seventeenth to mid nineteenth centuries), and are nearly all newly translated by Alan Cummings for this edition