Lit&Lunch with Robert Hass Reading Haiku and Czeslaw Milosz
Hear Robert Hass read from his translations of classic Japanese haiku from Basho and Buson, as well as his translations of Nobel winner Czeslaw Milosz. Hass appeared as part of the Center for the Art of Translation's Lit&Lunch series. Listen to excerpts from the event. Click here for the Center's audio archive.
Hass discussing learning Japanese and translating haiku:
(2:43)
Hass reading and explaining Basho's "Even in Kyoto":
(2:17)
Hass reading Basho's Mt Fuji haiku, his most famous work ever, and more:
(1:58)
Hass reading haikus from Buson:
(3:50)
Hass reading Basho's "erotic" haiku, "The Short Night":
(1:33)
Hass on Czeslaw Milosz:
(1:58)
Hass reading and discussing Czeslaw Milosz's long poem "Earth, She":
(7:37)
Fourteen
Robert Hass's work appears in the Center's fourteenth anthology of literature in translation. You can order our fourteenth anthology, which also contains work from Margaret Jull Costa, Elena Poniatowska, and more.
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