Part 4 : * "Japanese Haiku", by Peter Beilenson, [1955], p. 36 LADY BUTTERFLY PERFUMES HER WINGS BY FLOATING OVER THE ORCHID BASHO IF STRANGERS THREATEN TURN INTO FAT GREEN BULLFROGS... POND-COOLING MELONS ISSA YELLOW EVENING SUN... LONG SHADOW OF THE SCARECROW REACHES TO THE ROAD SHOHA A CAMELLIA DROPPED...
Untitled : This is a short collection of a couple of hundred Japanese Haiku. This was printed by the art book small press, Peter Pauper. In the original each haiku is accompanied by one of 59 Japanese seals. These seals are reproduced here. The divisions in the body of the text are arbitrary and were not...
Part 1 : * "Japanese Haiku", by Peter Beilenson, [1955], p. 6 p. 7 JAPANESE HAIKU IN THESE DARK WATERS DRAWN UP FROM MY FROZEN WELL... GLITTERING OF SPRING RINGAI STANDING STILL AT DUSK LISTEN... IN FAR DISTANCES THE SONG OF FROGLINGS! BUSON I DREAMED OF BATTLES AND WAS SLAIN... OH SAVAGE SAMURAI...
Part 5 : * "Japanese Haiku", by Peter Beilenson, [1955], p. 46 AT FURUE IN RAIN GRAY WATER AND GRAY SAND... PICTURE WITHOUT LINES BUSON OH SORRY TOM-CAT BIGGER BLACKER KNIGHTS OF LOVE HAVE KNOCKED YOU OUT! SHIKO THE OLD FISHERMAN UNALTERABLY INTENT... COLD EVENING RAIN BUSON WHILE I TURNED MY HEAD TH...
Part 3 : * "Japanese Haiku", by Peter Beilenson, [1955], p. 26 OLD DARK SLEEPY POOL... QUICK UNEXPECTED FROG GOES PLOP! WATERSPLASH! BASHO MY SHADOWY PATH I'VE SWEPT ALL DAY AND NOW... OH NO! CAMELLIA-SHOWER! YAHA HARD THE BEGGAR'S BED... BUT SOCIABLE AND BUSY WITH INSECT-TALKING CHIYO-NI COME COME! COME...
Title Page : * "Japanese Haiku", by Peter Beilenson, [1955], JAPANESE HAIKU TWO HUNDRED TWENTY EXAMPLES OF SEVENTEEN-SYLLABLE POEMS BY BASHO * BUSON * ISSA SHIKI SOKAN * KIKAKU AND OTHERS * TRANSLATED BY PETER BEILENSON PUBLISHED BY THE PETER PAUPER PRESS MOUNT VERNON NEW YORK [1955] Scanned , April 2007...
A Note On Japanese Haiku : * "Japanese Haiku", by Peter Beilenson, [1955], p. 3 A NOTE ON JAPANESE HAIKU THE "hokku"--or more properly "haiku"--is a tiny verse-form in which Japanese poets have been working for hundreds of years. Originally it was the first part of the "tanka", a five-line poem, often written by two people...
Part 6 : * "Japanese Haiku", by Peter Beilenson, [1955], p. 56 CONSIDERATE DOGS... STEPPING OFF INTO THE SNOW AS I WALK THE PATH ISSA BUT WHEN I HALTED ON THE WINDY STREET AT TWILIGHT... SNOW STRUCK AGAINST ME KITO CALL HIM BACK! AH NO, HE'S BLOWN FROM SIGHT ALREADY... FISH-PEDDLER IN THE SNOW ...
Part 2 : * "Japanese Haiku", by Peter Beilenson, [1955], p. 16 THE LADEN WAGON RUNS BUMBLING AND CREAKING DOWN THE ROAD... THREE PEONIES TREMBLE BUSON AH ME! I AM ONE WHO SPENDS HIS LITTLE BREAKFAST MORNING-GLORY GAZING BASHO MY GOOD FATHER RAGED WHEN I SNAPPED THE PEONY... PRECIOUS MEMORY! TAIRO BY TH...
