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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Walden by haiku
Prof. Ian Marshall has extracted haiku from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden for his book Walden by haiku.
You can hear a 10-minute interview tonight on KUOW’s Living on Earth. You can listen online:
The link includes a transcript.
Source: Marilyn Sandall
Old Pond – Matsushima, ah!
Basho writes about his visit to Matsushima in his haibun The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Matsushima is one of the most beautiful landscape in Japan. Just imagine: hundreds of islands covered with pine trees!
Upon seeing one of the most famous views in Japan, Basho composed the following haiku:
Matsushima, ah!
Aah, Matsushima, ah!
Matsushima, ah!
— Basho
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