August 22nd, 2011
You can hear poet Robert Hass reading his translations of some Haiku poems by Japanese poet and Buddhist priest Kobayashi Issa (1763 – 1827) in the video below.
The first is one of my favorites:
Don’t worry spiders
I keep house
Casually.
Listen to more here…
Enjoy!
Mama Lisa
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