{"product_id":"bashos-ghost","title":"Basho's Ghost","description":"Embodied among travel sketches and portraits of people and places visited during his 1988 stay in Japan on a Japan-U.S. Fellowship, Sam Hamill presents a reading of Japanese poetry beginning with the eighteenth-century anthology, Man'yoshu, tracing the development of the Japanese poetic imagination up through the seventeenth-century poet Bash, the eighteenth-century monk\/poet Ry kan, and concluding with Japan's first Mondernist poet, Takamura Kotar . Visiting places in Japan's north country where Bash traveled three hundred years ago, Hamill drawns upon his own zen practice of twenty-five years, and upon his lifelong study of Asian literature, encountering some of Japan's foremost poets, introducing them as he would old friends met along a great journey. Bash 's Ghost is a literary exegesis located in personal memoir, a \"deep reading\" performed with translucent grace, often poignant and always revealing. It is a true poet's book, a book of the heart.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0913089079\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0913089079.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Hamill, Sam\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43558808715325,"sku":"BVV.0913089079.G","price":22.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0913089079-0.jpg?v=1788385065","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/bashos-ghost","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}