In the introduction to her new translation of the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Bashō’s account of his fifteen-hundred mile walk with his disciple Sora, Meredith McKinney explains that its haibun form, an ancient combination of poetry and prose that Bashō was developing into his own art, consists not so much of faithfully recording places and events…
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