When we see animals as they really are, we understand how deeply they embody the intelligence and beauty of the universe. Poet and translator Stephen Mitchell has collected animal poems from many ages and many cultures. The book includes haiku by Basho, Buson, and Issa, and poems by John Milton, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and the great modern masters Rainer Maria Rilke, Marianne Moore, Robinson Jeffers and Pablo Neruda.
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When we see animals as they really are, we understand how deeply they embody the intelligence and beauty of the universe. Poet and translator Stephen Mitchell has collected animal poems from many ages and many cultures. The book includes haiku by Basho, Buson, and Issa, and poems by John Milton, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and the great modern masters Rainer Maria Rilke, Marianne Moore, Robinson Jeffers and Pablo Neruda.
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