Englishing the Haiku
An Brief Essay on Translation
Self Portrait (haiga), Yosa Buson Date: 1771
You probably wrote “haikus” sometime in high school, after your British and American lit. teacher decided that a further drop of the standards of prosody was necessary if the class was going to pass with a (curved) B+ average.
This essay is not about about those haikus…
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