A Few Flies and I: Haiku.

Kobayashi, Issa

Random House]

This NYT Best Illustrated artist makes his Scholastic Press debut with a poignant picture book about loss and renewal. Brian Karas has always been moved and inspired by the haiku poetry of Issa, whose work is taught in schools and loved by children around the world. Here Karas has selected 22 of his favorite poems to tell the story of a year in the life of a family -- a year in which they will experience the loss of their beloved grandfather, and also the renewal that comes from healing after loss. With stunning mixed media artwork that represents a major breakout for this acclaimed artist, TODAY AND TODAY offers an authentic, reassuring look at life's many cycles -- and the small miracles that occur each day.

Today And Today

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Scholastic Press

The Essential Haiku : Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa

Matsuo, Bashō

Yosa, Buson

Poetry

Bt Bound

Born in 1763 on a farm in central Japan, Issa began writing haiku as a young child. Matthew Gollub has integrated the story of Issa's life and selections of his best-known work with Kazuko Stone's visual interpretations in the form of whimsical watercolors. Full color.

Cool Melons - Turn to Frogs!: The Life and Poems of Issa

Matthew Gollub

Teen & Young Adult

Perfection Learning

Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), long considered among Japan's four greatest haiku poets (along with Basho, Buson and Shiki) is probably the best loved. This collection of more than 360 haiku, arranged seasonally and many rendered into English for the first time, attempts to reveal the full range of the poet's extraordinary life as if it were concentrated within a year. Issa's haiku are traditionally structured, of 17 syllables in the original, tonally unified and highly suggestive, yet they differ from those of fellow haikuists.

The Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa

Swallow Pr

Issa: Cup-Of-Tea Poems : Selected Haiku of Kobayashi Issa

Issa: Cup-Of-Tea Poems : Selected Haiku of Kobayashi Issa

History & Criticism

Asian Humanities Pr

This book is a guided tour through the work of Japanese haiku master Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828), gathering together in one text his most effective and evocative verses. After an introduction to Issa's poetry and life, the translator, David G. Lanoue, presents 1,210 haiku culled from his on-line archive of 10,000. Lanoue writes, "Issa is a poet who speaks to our common humanity in a way that is so honest, so contemporary, his verses might have been written this morning. Basho is the most revered of the haiku poets of Old Japan, but Issa is the most loved."

Issa's Best: A Translator's Selection of Master Haiku, Print Edition

HaikuGuy.com

Cool Melons-turn to Frogs!: The Life And Poems of Issa

Kazuko G. Stone

San Val

Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), along with Basho and Buson, is considered one of the three greatest haiku poets of Japan, known for his attention to poignant detail and his playful sense of humor. Issa's most-loved work, The Spring of My Life, is an autobiographical sketch of linked prose and haiku in the tradition of Basho's famous Narrow Road to the Interior. In addition to The Spring of My Life, the translator has included more than 160 of Issa's best haiku and an introduction providing essential information on Issa's life and valuable comments on translating (and reading) haiku.

The Spring of My Life: And Selected Haiku

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Shambhala

This book is a major expansion of "Issa's Best: A Translator's Selection of Master Haiku" (2012). It presents most of the same seasonally-arranged haiku by Kobayashi Issa in English translation as the earlier book did--this time along with the original Japanese texts and commentary by the translator. The introduction provides an overview of Issa's life and poetry.

A Taste of Issa: Haiku

World Literature

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