Hiroaki Sato

Broschiertes Buch

On Haiku

Beschreibung

Everything you want to know about haiku written by one of the foremost experts in the field and the â finest translator of contemporary Japanese poetry into American Englishâ (Gary Snyder)

Autor

Hiroaki Sato was born of Japanese parents in Taiwan in 1942; his family fled back to Japan at the end of WWII, and in 1968 he moved to New York, where he has lived ever since. He is the translator of many volumes of Japanese poetry and literature. The president of the Haiku Society of America from 1979 to 1981, Sato received the America PEN translation prize and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Translation Prize twice. He is the author of the books Legends of the Samurai, Snow in a Silver Bowl, and One Hundred Frogs, and from 2000 to 2017 wrote the monthly column "View from New York" for The Japan Times. New Directions also publishes his translation of The Iceland by Sakutaro Hagiwara.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 131mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780811227414
• ISBN-10: 0811227413
• Artikelnr.: 51261944