Random House New Releases - Poetry - Between May 23, 2012 and June 22, 2013.

Catching Light by Christopher Wagstaff

2013-06-11T00:30:00-05:00

Catching Light Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Written by Joanna McClure
Foreword by Michael McClure
Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff

Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene.

Growing up on a ranch in the Arizona desert, Joanna developed early on a deep sensitivity to the beauty of nature. Her move to San Francisco as a young woman in 1951 launched a lifelong love affair with that city and the poetry it engendered. Thriving on the energy of the Beat movement, the young poet found herself inside a circle of famous poets and great writers in American poetry and American literature, including San Francisco Renaissance poet Robert Duncan and his lover, artist Jess Collins, as well as the Beats Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Gary Snyder. She heard Ginsberg's first public reading of "Howl" at the Six Gallery in 1955, and the home she shared with Michael became a gathering place for beatniks.

Meanwhile, Joanna was developing own body of poetic work, allowing her clear inner voice to guide her. Her poems ardently claim the freedoms her generation struggled to achieve, yet they often do so in a playful and generous voice, reveling in the beauty of the natural world and everyday moments and elegantly celebrating sensuality and intimate love. In the late 1950s she began publishing her work in literary journals and chapbooks, and her first book of poems, Wolf Eyes, was published in 1974.

Like many of her female Beat poet contemporaries, and American women writers throughout the 20th century, Joanna McClure wrote prolifically yet quietly year after year, even as her life shifted focus to a career in early childhood development and she and Michael divorced. "Poetry is where I keep company with myself," she declares. Now for the first time the full range of McClure's voice is accessible in one volume, spanning the poet's entire writing life.

Catching Light by Christopher Wagstaff

2013-06-11T00:30:00-05:00

Catching Light Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Written by Joanna McClure
Foreword by Michael McClure
Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff

The Anchor Book of Sixteenth Century Verse by Richard D. Sylvester

2013-06-05T00:30:00-05:00

The Anchor Book of Sixteenth Century Verse
Edited by Richard D. Sylvester

This comprehensive anthology contains selections from the work of twenty-five poets of the sixteenth century. Employing the original, rather than normalized, texts, the volume includes complete, non-excerpted poems by John Skelton, Philip Sidney and others. The selections - which include such works as 'The Steele Glass'. Richard S. Sylvester examines the evolution of English poetry through the century, tracing the development of the early Tudor poets through the eloquence of Surrey.

The Great Ledge by Peter Davison

2013-05-22T00:30:00-05:00

The Great Ledge
Written by Peter Davison

eBook | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American; Poetry - Subjects & Themes - Death; Poetry - Subjects & Themes - Nature | $12.99 | May 22, 2013 | 978-0-307-83300-6 (0-307-83300-3)

James Dickey, in reviewing Peter Davison's last book, Praying Wrong: New and Selected Poems, 1957-1984, said, ' Davison will not let things break him. His voice is his; he has earned it and can use it, and as a result is surely one of our better poets.' That sense of this poet's singularity is one of the great strengths of this new book; these deeply felt poems are uniquely his. From the almost unbearably moving 'Equinox 1980, ' which opens the book, to the delightful 'Peaches, ' The Great Ledge confirms the remark of Vernon Young that Davison is 'one of the few poets of the first order writing in English today.'

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

2013-05-14T00:30:00-05:00

The Divine Comedy Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Written by Dante Alighieri

Trade Paperback, 640 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics; Poetry - Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Poetry - Epic | $15.00 | May 14, 2013 | 978-0-8041-6912-7 (0-8041-6912-8)

The complete Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) in one volume from Vintage Classics. The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wickstead translation, with full notes.

Dante’s Divine Comedy relates the allegorical tale of the poet’s journey through the three realms of the dead. Accompanied through the Inferno and Purgatory by Virgil—author of the Roman epic the Aeniad—Dante encounters mythical, historical, and contemporaneous figures in their respective afterlives. Relying on classical (pagan) mythology and Christian imagery and theology, Dante imagines diverse vivid and inventive punishments for the various sinners he encounters, which have become part of the Western imagination.

Upon their approach to Paradise, which as a pagan, no matter how worthy, the Latin poet cannot enter, Virgil relinquishes his role as guide to Beatrice. Dante's chaste beloved then accompanies him along the ascent, as they encounter the blessed and the holy, and Dante arrives at a vision of the heavenly paradise.

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

2013-05-14T00:30:00-05:00

The Divine Comedy Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Written by Dante Alighieri

eBook, 656 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics; Poetry - Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Poetry - Epic | $9.99 | May 14, 2013 | 978-0-307-82373-1 (0-307-82373-3)

Dante’s Divine Comedy relates the allegorical tale of the poet’s journey through the three realms of the dead. Accompanied through the Inferno and Purgatory by Virgil--author of the Roman epic the Aeniad--Dante encounters mythical, historical, and contemporaneous figures in their respective afterlives. Relying on classical (pagan) mythology and Christian imagery and theology, Dante imagines diverse vivid and inventive punishments for the various sinners he encounters, which have become part of the Western imagination.

Upon their approach to Paradise, which as a pagan, no matter how worthy, the Latin poet cannot enter, Virgil relinquishes his role as guide to Beatrice. Dante's chaste beloved then accompanies him along the ascent, as they encounter the blessed and the holy, and Dante arrives at a vision of the heavenly paradise.

Skinned by Antjie Krog

2013-05-07T00:30:00-05:00

Skinned Selected Poems
Written by Antjie Krog

Hardcover, 176 pages | Seven Stories Press | Poetry - Women Authors; Poetry - African; History - South Africa | $23.95 | May 7, 2013 | 978-1-60980-463-3 (1-60980-463-5)

One of South Africa’s greatest living poets selects from her most recent poems and also from the poems and the themes that best represent her from across her long career.

Part One of Skinned contains poems about writing, family and love poems. The poems in second part were chosen from a volume featuring a long epic poem based on the life of Lady Anne Barnard from Scotland, who accompanied her husband to Cape Town and lived in the castle there from 1797 until 1802. This volume was written during the height of apartheid and the poet chose Lady Anne as representative of the colonial vision. Part Three contains extracts from several speakers who lived in the land before the likes of lady Anne arrived. Krog includes here interviews with inhabitants of the stone desert, three re-workings of Bushmen or Xam narratives, as well as a translation of an oral Xhosa praise poem. Part Four represents the political turmoil of South Africa and the divisions within Africa. The poems come from volumes that explored how blacks and whites identifying with the oppressed were removed from official history. The present volume as a whole explores the necessity of "a change of tongue" in order to be.

Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

Loose Woman Poems
Written by Sandra Cisneros

NOW AVAILABLE IN EBOOK FOR THE FIRST TIME

With her novel THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET, Sandra Cisneros introduced one of the most lyrically inventive voices ever to emerge from the barrio. Now she gives us a book of poems with the lilt of NORTEÑO music and the romantic abandon of a hot Saturday night. Celebrating the cataclysms of love and mapping the faultlines in the Mexican-American psyche, LOOSE WOMAN is by turns bawdy and introspective, flagrantly erotic and unabashedly funny, a work that is both a tour de force and a triumphant outpouring of pure soul.

Skinned by Antjie Krog

2013-04-16T00:30:00-05:00

Skinned Selected Poems
Written by Antjie Krog

Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie by Maya Angelou

2013-04-10T00:30:00-05:00

Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie Poems
Written by Maya Angelou

Another remarkable collection of poetry from one of America's masters of the medium. The first part gathers together poems of love and nostalgic memory, while Part II portrays confrontations inherent in a racist society.

Monolithos by Jack Gilbert

2013-04-10T00:30:00-05:00

Monolithos Poems '62-'82
Written by Jack Gilbert

This is Jack Gilbert's first book since the now-legendary Views of Jeopardy appeared as the 1962 entry in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Beat poetry was much in vogue at the time, a discursive poetry that rages against things as they are. Perhaps it was for this reason the strict compression of Jack Gilbert's work and its celebration of an ideal of romantic love caused such a sensation. The Times declared him "one of the most exciting voices of the second half of our centruy." Standley Kunitz called him "a civilization and an artist." There was praise from other notable poets—Stephen Spender, Muriel Rukeyser, and Theodore Roethke among them—such considerable praise that a nationwide tour was arranged. Gilbert set aside his solitary life abroad and returned to the United States to speak to the audience that now awaited him, so arousing those who came to hear him that only the readings offered by Dylan Thomas a decade earlier might be seen in the same exceptional light. But at the conclusion of that tour, Gilbert vanished—back to Italy, Greece, Japan—entering a silence that lasted twenty years and which now ends with the oublication of Monolithos, a selection of new work and of some of the poems first seen in Views of Jeopardy. These are poems about lust, how it succeeds, how it fails—not as the succumbing to desire, nor the getting of flesh, but as the honoring of the impulse to know, to possess "the great knowledge of breasts with their loud nipples," to know everything that a man might know of a woman "in all her fresh particularity of difference." Often harsh in their expression, and always rigorous in their displeasure with what is ornamental and easy, Gilbert's poems speak with the stern syntax of the mind, and yet their text is the ways of the heart, the effort to master a passion too great to be encompassed, to subdue it with the instrument of language, to claim the primacy of "what abounds, what times there are, my fine house that love is." What issues from this concern is a poetry of the severest modulation and of an obsessive will for the exact—a poetry that is astringent, illuminated, and of the first importance.

Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well by Maya Angelou

2013-04-10T00:30:00-05:00

Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well Poems
Written by Maya Angelou

This collection of thirty-six poems is, once again, eloquent evidence of Maya Angelou's continuing celebration of life: Here are poems of love and memory; poems of racial confrontation; songs of the street and songs from the heart.

Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? by Maya Angelou

2013-04-10T00:30:00-05:00

Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
Written by Maya Angelou

Lyrical and cadent, dramatic and sometimes playful, these poems speak of love, longing, parting; of freedom and shattered dreams; of Saturday-night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities.

Across the Land and the Water by Iain Galbraith

2013-04-09T00:30:00-05:00

Across the Land and the Water Selected Poems, 1964-2001
Written by W.G. Sebald
Translated by Iain Galbraith

“A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre.”—Teju Cole, The New Yorker

German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that put its author in the company of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges. Now comes the first major collection of this literary master’s poems. Skillfully translated by Iain Galbraith, they range from pieces Sebald wrote as a student in the sixties to those completed right before his untimely death in 2001. In nearly one hundred poems—the majority published in English for the first time—Sebald explores his trademark themes, from nature and history, to wandering and wondering, to oblivion and memory. Soaring and searing, the poetry of W. G. Sebald is an indelible addition to his superb body of work, and this collection is bound to become a classic in its own right.

“How fortunate we are to have this writer’s startling imagination freshly on display once again, expressed in language honed to a perfect simplicity.”—Billy Collins

“A watershed volume . . . nothing less than transcendent.”—BookPage

“[Sebald was] a defining writer of his era.”—The New Republic

Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think by Eugene Ostashevsky

2013-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think
Written by Alexander Vvedensky
Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky
Translated by Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky

“Pussy Riot are Vvedensky's disciples and his heirs.
Katya, Masha, and I are in jail but I don’t consider that we’ve been defeated.... According to the official report, Alexander Vvedensky died on December 20, 1941. We don’t know the cause, whether it was dysentery in the train after his arrest or a bullet from a guard. It was somewhere on the railway line between Voronezh and Kazan. His principle of ‘bad rhythm’ is our own. He wrote: ‘It happens that two rhythms will come into your head, a good one and a bad one and I choose the bad one. It will be the right one.’ ... It is believed that the OBERIU dissidents are dead, but they live on. They are persecuted but they do not die.”
— Pussy Riot [Nadezhda Tolokonnikova’s closing statement at their
trial in August 2012]

“I raise[d] my hand against concepts,” wrote Alexander Vvedensky, “I enacted a poetic critique of reason.” This weirdly and wonderfully philosophical poet was born in 1904, grew up in the midst of war and revolution, and reached his artistic maturity as Stalin was twisting the meaning of words in grotesque and lethal ways. Vvedensky—with Daniil Kharms the major figure in the short–lived underground avant-garde group OBERIU (a neologism for “the union for real art”)—responded with a poetry that explodes stable meaning into shimmering streams of provocation and invention. A Vvedensky poem is like a crazy party full of theater, film, magic tricks, jugglery, and feasting. Curious characters appear and disappear, euphoria keeps company with despair, outrageous assertions lead to epic shouting matches, and perhaps it all breaks off with one lonely person singing a song.

A Vvedensky poem doesn’t make a statement. It is an event. Vvedensky’s poetry was unpublishable during his lifetime—he made a living as a writer for children before dying under arrest in 1942—and he remains the least known of the great twentieth-century Russian poets. This is his first book to appear in English. The translations by Eugene Ostashevsky and Matvei Yankelevich, outstanding poets in their own right, are as astonishingly alert and alive as the originals.

Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think by Eugene Ostashevsky

2013-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think
Written by Alexander Vvedensky
Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky
Translated by Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky

“Pussy Riot are Vvedensky's disciples and his heirs.
Katya, Masha, and I are in jail but I don’t consider that we’ve been defeated.... According to the official report, Alexander Vvedensky died on December 20, 1941. We don’t know the cause, whether it was dysentery in the train after his arrest or a bullet from a guard. It was somewhere on the railway line between Voronezh and Kazan. His principle of ‘bad rhythm’ is our own. He wrote: ‘It happens that two rhythms will come into your head, a good one and a bad one and I choose the bad one. It will be the right one.’ ... It is believed that the OBERIU dissidents are dead, but they live on. They are persecuted but they do not die.”
— Pussy Riot [Nadezhda Tolokonnikova’s closing statement at their
trial in August 2012]

“I raise[d] my hand against concepts,” wrote Alexander Vvedensky, “I enacted a poetic critique of reason.” This weirdly and wonderfully philosophical poet was born in 1904, grew up in the midst of war and revolution, and reached his artistic maturity as Stalin was twisting the meaning of words in grotesque and lethal ways. Vvedensky—with Daniil Kharms the major figure in the short-lived underground avant-garde group OBERIU (a neologism for “the union for real art”)—responded with a poetry that explodes stable meaning into shimmering streams of provocation and invention. A Vvedensky poem is like a crazy party full of theater, film, magic tricks, jugglery, and feasting. Curious characters appear and disappear, euphoria keeps company with despair, outrageous assertions lead to epic shouting matches, and perhaps it all breaks off with one lonely person singing a song.

A Vvedensky poem doesn’t make a statement. It is an event. Vvedensky’s poetry was unpublishable during his lifetime—he made a living as a writer for children before dying under arrest in 1942—and he remains the least known of the great twentieth-century Russian poets. This is his first book to appear in English. The translations by Eugene Ostashevsky and Matvei Yankelevich, outstanding poets in their own right, are as astonishingly alert and alive as the originals.

Coral Road by Garrett Hongo

2013-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

Coral Road Poems
Written by Garrett Hongo

Garrett Hongo’s long-awaited third collection of poems is a beautiful, elegiac gathering of his Japanese-American ancestors in their Hawaiian landscape and a testament to the power of poetry, as it brings their marginalized yet heroic narratives into the realm of art.

In Coral Road Hongo explores the history of the impermanent homeland his ancestors found on the island of O‘ahu after their immigration from southern Japan, and meditates on the dramatic tales of the islands. In sumptuous narrative poems he takes up strands of family stories and what he calls “a long legacy of silence” about their experience as contract laborers along the North Shore of the island. In the opening sequence, he brings to life the story of his great-grandparents fleeing from one plantation to another, finding their way by moonlight along coral roads and railroad tracks. As his grandmother, a girl of ten with an infant on her back, traverses “twelve-score stands of cane / chittering like small birds, nocturnal harpies in the feral constancies of wind,” Hongo asks, “Where is the Virgil who might lead me through the shallow underworld of this history?” In fact, it is Hongo who guides himself—and us—as, in these devoted acts of recollection, he seeks to dispel the dislocation at the center of his legacy.

The love of art—making beauty in however provisional a culture—has clearly been a guiding principle in Hongo’s poetry. In this content-rich verse, Hongo hearkens to and delivers “the luminous and the anecdotal,” bringing forth a complete aesthetic experience from the shards that make up a life.

Miguel Hernandez by Don Share

2013-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

Miguel Hernandez
Written by Miguel Hernandez
Translated by Don Share

Miguel Hernández is, along with Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Federico García Lorca, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the twentieth century. This volume spans the whole of Hernández’s brief writing life, and includes his most celebrated poems, from the early lyrics written in traditional forms, such as the moving elegy Hernández wrote to his friend and mentor Ramon Sijé (one of the most famous elegies ever written in the Spanish language), to the spiritual eroticism of his love poems, and the heart-wrenching, luminous lines written in the trenches of war. Also included in this edition are tributes to Hernández by Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda (interviewed by Robert Bly), Rafael Alberti, and Vicente Aleixandre. Pastoral nature, love, and war are recurring themes in Hernández’s poetry, his words a dazzling reminder that force can never defeat spirit, that courage is its own reward.

Miguel Hernandez by Don Share

2013-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

Miguel Hernandez
Written by Miguel Hernandez
Translated by Don Share

Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times by David Young

2013-04-02T00:30:00-05:00

Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times Selected Haiku of Basho
Written by Matsuo Basho
Translated by David Young

Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master.

Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; "Piles of quilts/ snow on distant mountains/ I watch both," he writes. His work captures both the profound loneliness of one observing mind and the broad-ranging joy he finds in our connections to the larger community. David Young, acclaimed translator and Knopf poet, writes in his introduction to this selection, "This poet's consciousness affiliates itself with crickets, islands, monkeys, snowfalls, moonscapes, flowers, trees, and ceremonies...Waking and sleeping, alone and in company, he moves through the world, delighting in its details." Young's translations are bright, alert, musically perfect, and rich in tenderness toward their maker.

Random House New Releases - Poetry - Between May 23, 2012 and June 22, 2013.

Catching Light by Christopher Wagstaff

Catching Light Collected Poems of Joanna McClureWritten by Joanna McClure Foreword by Michael McClure Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff

Catching Light by Christopher Wagstaff

Catching Light Collected Poems of Joanna McClureWritten by Joanna McClure Foreword by Michael McClure Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff

The Anchor Book of Sixteenth Century Verse by Richard D. Sylvester

The Anchor Book of Sixteenth Century Verse Edited by Richard D. Sylvester

The Great Ledge by Peter Davison

The Great Ledge Written by Peter Davison

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy Inferno, Purgatorio, ParadisoWritten by Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy Inferno, Purgatorio, ParadisoWritten by Dante Alighieri

Skinned by Antjie Krog

Skinned Selected PoemsWritten by Antjie Krog

Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros

Loose Woman PoemsWritten by Sandra Cisneros

Skinned by Antjie Krog

Skinned Selected PoemsWritten by Antjie Krog

Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie by Maya Angelou

Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie PoemsWritten by Maya Angelou

Monolithos by Jack Gilbert

Monolithos Poems '62-'82Written by Jack Gilbert

Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well by Maya Angelou

Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well PoemsWritten by Maya Angelou

Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? by Maya Angelou

Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? Written by Maya Angelou

Across the Land and the Water by Iain Galbraith

Across the Land and the Water Selected Poems, 1964-2001Written by W.G. Sebald Translated by Iain Galbraith

Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think by Eugene Ostashevsky

Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think Written by Alexander Vvedensky Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky Translated by Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky

Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think by Eugene Ostashevsky

Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think Written by Alexander Vvedensky Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky Translated by Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky

Coral Road by Garrett Hongo

Coral Road PoemsWritten by Garrett Hongo

Miguel Hernandez by Don Share

Miguel Hernandez Written by Miguel Hernandez Translated by Don Share

Miguel Hernandez by Don Share

Miguel Hernandez Written by Miguel Hernandez Translated by Don Share

Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times by David Young

Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times Selected Haiku of BashoWritten by Matsuo Basho Translated by David Young

Catching Light Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Written by Joanna McClure
Foreword by Michael McClure
Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff

Catching Light Collected Poems of Joanna McClure
Written by Joanna McClure
Foreword by Michael McClure
Introduction by Christopher Wagstaff

The Anchor Book of Sixteenth Century Verse
Edited by Richard D. Sylvester

The Great Ledge
Written by Peter Davison

The Divine Comedy Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Written by Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Written by Dante Alighieri

Skinned Selected Poems
Written by Antjie Krog

Loose Woman Poems
Written by Sandra Cisneros

Skinned Selected Poems
Written by Antjie Krog

Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie Poems
Written by Maya Angelou

Monolithos Poems '62-'82
Written by Jack Gilbert

Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well Poems
Written by Maya Angelou

Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
Written by Maya Angelou

Across the Land and the Water Selected Poems, 1964-2001
Written by W.G. Sebald
Translated by Iain Galbraith

Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think
Written by Alexander Vvedensky
Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky
Translated by Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky

Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think
Written by Alexander Vvedensky
Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky
Translated by Matvei Yankelevich and Eugene Ostashevsky

Coral Road Poems
Written by Garrett Hongo

Miguel Hernandez
Written by Miguel Hernandez
Translated by Don Share

Miguel Hernandez
Written by Miguel Hernandez
Translated by Don Share

Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times Selected Haiku of Basho
Written by Matsuo Basho
Translated by David Young