Growing up in poverty and neglect, Issa’s writing is crass, playful, and full of compassion for the unnoticed and the undignified.

In A Taste of Issa, David G. Lanoue writes, “Issa is a poet who speaks to our common humanity in a way that is so honest, so contemporary, his verses might have been written this morning.

Poems of Kobayashi Issa is a short and varied collection of Issa’s haiku. Each translation is accompanied by the original Japanese text and English transliteration (romaji).

Author: Kobayashi Issa
Translator: Anthony Opal
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-6-7
Published: September 18, 2020