{"product_id":"bashos-ghost-9780913089071","title":"Basho's Ghost","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBasho's Ghost\u003c\/strong\u003e by Hamill, Sam. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780913089071.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmbodied among travel sketches and portraits of people and places visited during his 1988 stay in Japan on a Japan-U.S. Fellowship, Sam Hamill presents a reading of Japanese poetry beginning with the eighteenth-century anthology, Manyoshu, tracing the development of the Japanese poetic imagination up through the seventeenth-century poet Bash, the eighteenth-century monk\/poet Ry kan, and concluding with Japans first Mondernist poet, Takamura Kotar . Visiting places in Japans north country where Bash traveled three hundred years ago, Hamill drawns upon his own zen practice of twenty-five years, and upon his lifelong study of Asian literature, encountering some of Japans foremost poets, introducing them as he would old friends met along a great journey. Bash s Ghost is a literary exegesis located in personal memoir, a \"deep reading\" performed with translucent grace, often poignant and always revealing. It is a true poets book, a book of the heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Broken Moon Pr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44777163292725,"sku":"ByrdShop_0913089079","price":226.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0913089079_6b3ad0d1-d9b1-48ec-963e-e8a10d2df84f.jpg?v=1784201417","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/bashos-ghost-9780913089071","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}