HAIKU: JAPANESE POEMS FOR THE FOUR SEASONS BEATRIX POTTER collection is sure to spread

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This deluxe hardcover book incorporates original research and includes full color photos

and escaping the roles we are forced to play

HAIKU: JAPANESE POEMS FOR THE FOUR SEASONS BEATRIX POTTER collection is sure to spreadSavor the changing seasons with this beautifully illustrated collection of classic haiku Perhaps no poetic form evokes nature so effectively as the haiku. Made up of just seventeen syllables, it conveys an impression with almost the same immediacy as our own sensesit can be as ephemeral as a breath and as powerful as lightning. This delightful volume presents some 140 haiku by masters of every periodincluding Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shikiarranged