through strict count, Sun Under t...

through strict count, Sun Under timber-land is Robert Hass's fourth work of poetry. The translations in The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Busan, and Issa, however, must by dint of anyone's standard be considered remarkable poetic achievements in themselves, comparable - in bourns of sheer written readiness of speech - to the best piece of poetrys in his three previous books: Field Guide (1973) Praise (1979) and Human Wishes (1989): It's not like anything they compare it to - the summer satellite (23) Critics say it is difficult to justice the quality of English line translation when one doesn't know the original language.