Bashō's Haiku: Selected Poems

9 best books like Bashō's Haiku: Selected Poems (Matsuo Bashō): The Deathless Girls, Against Nature, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, Poems and Prose, Wittgenstein's Vienna, Borges: A Life

The Deathless Girls

Author

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

They say the thirst of blood is like a madness - they must sate it. Even with their own kin.

On the eve of her divining, the day she'll discover her fate, seventeen-year-old Lil and her twin sister Kizzy are captured and enslaved by the cruel Boyar Valcar, taken far away from their beloved traveller...

Against Nature

Author	Joris-Karl Huysmans
ISBN	0140447636

With a title translated either as Against Nature or as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-de-siècle novel follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous...

Count Zero

Author	William Gibson
ISBN	0441013678

The coolest thing about reading Gibson is jacking in to his urbane and hip way of descriptive narration.

William Gibson, as prophet of cyber punk and also as the herald of his later Blue Ant works, returns to The Sprawl for a continuation of the setting he began in his masterwork, Neuromancer.

But...

Mona Lisa Overdrive

Author	William Gibson
ISBN	0553281747

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting - where multinational corporations...

The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa

Author	Robert Hass
ISBN	0613339983

American readers have been fascinated since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku. The seventeen-syllable form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observation of nature, of making poetry from subtle suggestion....

A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

Author	Fernando Pessoa
ISBN	0143039555

...I have in me all the dreams of the world.
Álvaro de Campos, “The Tobacco Shop”
Warning
This is going to be a long, tedious, intense review. If you don't feel like reading an endless bunch of nonsense, you may leave now. However, poetry lover, I seriously suggest you this: get this...

Poems and Prose

Author	Gerard Manley Hopkins
ISBN	0140420150

Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Society of Jesus and the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging...

Wittgenstein's Vienna

Author	Allan Janik
ISBN	1566631327

This is a remarkable book about a man (perhaps the most important and original philosopher of our age), a society (the corrupt Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of dissolution), and a city (Vienna, with its fin-de siecle gaiety and corrosive melancholy). The central figure in this study of a crumbling...

Borges: A Life

Author	Edwin Williamson
ISBN	0143035568

Edwin Williamson’s major new biography is the first in any language to encompass the entire span of Jorge Luis Borges’s life and work. Drawing upon previously unknown or unavailable sources, it brings out the human side of Borges: his roots in Argentina, the evolution of his political ideas, his...