# The Pocket Haiku

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- Book: [The Pocket Haiku](https://www.bookquiver.com/matsuo-basho/the-pocket-haiku) ([The Pocket Haiku.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/matsuo-basho/the-pocket-haiku.md))
- Authors: [Matsuo Basho](https://www.bookquiver.com/matsuo-basho), [Buson](https://www.bookquiver.com/yosa-buson), [Kobayashi Issa](https://www.bookquiver.com/kobayashi-issa), [Sam Hamill](https://www.bookquiver.com/sam-hamill)
- Publisher: shambhala
- ISBN: 978-16-1180-153-8
- Pages: 152
- Published: 2014-05-13
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Quintessential classical Japanese haiku--selected and translated by one of America's premier poet-translators--now available in a pocket edition. In this collection of haiku, translator Sam Hamill has...