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A Theme from In Praise of Old Haiku, with Many More Poems and Fine Elaboration
Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! is a book of many faces. First, it is a book of translated haiku and contains over 900 of these short Japanese poems in the origin...
17-syllabet Japanese poems about human foibles, sans season (i.e., not haiku), were introduced a half-century ago by RH Blyth in two books, "Edo Satir...
Cherry Blossom Epiphany - the poetry and philosophy of a flowering tree - a selection, translation and lengthy explication of 3000 haiku, waka, senry�...
A Thousand Years of Kyōka, Comic Japanese Poetry in the Classic Waka Mode
Even readers with no particular interest in Japan - if such odd souls exist - may expect unexpected pleasure from this book if English metaphysical po...
In this book, the first of a series, Robin D. Gill, author of the highly acclaimed Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! and Cherry Blossom Epiphany, the largest single...
A Mad in Translation Reader
Is Mistranslating Culture Inevitable?
1. Identity - collective -- Japan 2. Orientalism -- Occidentalism 3. Intercultural communication - stereotypes 4. Translation theory - Japanese/Englis...
Gill introduces hundreds of haiku about flies, fly-swatters and flypaper, scores of which are by Issa (1763-1827), whose famous haiku about a fly begg...