Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson

(Copper Canyon Press) This is the first complete bilingual translation of the entire Buson Kushu, a comprehensive collection of the haiku of Yosa Buson originally published in Japan in the mid-18th century. Merwin and Lento worked for nearly a decade to co-translate these poems, filled with resonant philosophical inquiry and wisdom about the natural world. Merwin was the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2010–11. He won his second Pulitzer Prize for The Shadow of Sirius and the National Book Award for Migration: New and Selected Poems. He lives in Hawaii and France.