Koayashi Issa

Recent poetry purchases. I added the cow because of this glorious Haiku in the little Dover anthology, by Matsunaga Teitoku:

That morning, how
Icicles drip! -- Slobbering
Year of the cow! 

(trans. Harold Gould Henderson)

Feed - Tommy Pico
The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology (Dover)
Book of Haiku - Jack Kerouac
Haiku - The Last Poems of an American Icon - Richard Wright