frogments from the frag pool (Gary Barwin & derek beaulieu)

frogments from the frag pool is a collection of poetry responding to Matsuo Bashō's famous haiku "furu ike ya / kawazu tobikomu / mizu no oto" (8). This particular haiku is considered all but impossible to adequately translate, and consequently a small tradition of attempting to translate the poem has arisen. A relatively literal translation [...]

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