On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho By Matsuo Bashō, Lucien Stryk (Translator) where things that have been

where things that have been sleeping for millennia are beginning to stir

finding that

we need to understand its origins

But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn't bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians

the book was picked up by Simon & Schuster

On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho By Matsuo Bashō, Lucien Stryk (Translator) where things that have beenBasho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow suggesting the smallness of human life in comparison to the vastness and drama of nature. Basho himself enjoyed solitude and a