Craig Mod mentions Bashō several times in his book Things Become Other Things. When I came across the Turkish translation of The Narrow Road to the Deep North in a bookstore in Cyprus, just after my trip to Japan, it felt like the right book to help me hold onto the feeling of the trip a little longer.
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Three simple lines
Right after finishing Matsuo Basho's The Narrow Road to Deep North, I wanted to read more about haiku in a similarly reflective, travel-journal style. Goldberg's Three Simple Lines stood out and proved to be a …
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Writing haiku to notice fleeting moments
I was reading Matsuo Bashō’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and at one point, after passing through a famous gate, he reflects on how he did not get a chance to write a haiku there. The remark is brief, but it …