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The Life and Poems of Issa
By Gollub, Matthew & Stone, Kazuko G.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-88000-071-7
- Publisher
- New York : Lee & Low Books, c1998.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 1998
Gr 2-5 A successful collaboration of verse and prose that brings a famous 18th-century poet to life. Gollub's original translations of Issa's haiku are interspersed with biographical narrative (slightly fictionalized) so that each one lends context to the other. Each poem is illustrated with a realistic spot or framed watercolor-and-colored-pencil picture, and rendered in Japanese calligraphy in the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
