kobayashi issa Archives - Matthew Talamini https://portfolio.matthewtalamini.com/tag/kobayashi-issa/ Emerging Writer Mon, 18 Feb 2019 23:20:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://portfolio.matthewtalamini.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-clouds-32x32.png kobayashi issa Archives - Matthew Talamini https://portfolio.matthewtalamini.com/tag/kobayashi-issa/ 32 32 194791218 The Spring of My Life https://portfolio.matthewtalamini.com/reviews/the-spring-of-my-life/ Sun, 25 Feb 2018 12:00:02 +0000 http://portfolio.matthewtalamini.com/?p=137 The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku by Kobayashi Issa My rating: 5 of 5 stars These haiku are very beautiful. Many of them piercingly so. A few are … Continue readingThe Spring of My Life

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars

These haiku are very beautiful. Many of them piercingly so. A few are deeply strange. Let me quote:

Passing high above
our village, migrating birds cry,
“Nobody needs you!”

This is by somebody named Hakuhi. I haven’t been able to find out any more about him or her.

This may be one of my favorite haiku ever.

What I’m saying is, if you’re in it for sublime melancholy — straight, uncut wabi-sabi — then get on the Kobayashi Issa train.

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