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Poems of Matsuo Basho
Author: Matsuo Basho
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-5-0
Published: September 18, 2020

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Poems of Yosa Buson
Author: Yosa Buson
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-1-0
Published: December 7, 2021

Purchase: $10



Poems of Kobayashi Issa
Author: Kobayashi Issa
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-6-7
Published: September 18, 2020

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Poems of Taneda Santoka
Author: Taneda Santoka
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-3-4
Published: April 28, 2022

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Six Phrases
Author: Hatano Soha
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7356630-0-5
Published: August 26, 2020

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Poems of Masaoka Shiki
Author: Masaoka Shiki
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-9-6
Published: May 12, 2023

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Poems of Matsuo Basho ii
Author: Matsuo Basho
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 979-8-9885108-2-6
Published: October 2, 2023

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Poems of Matsuo Basho iii
Author: Matsuo Basho
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 979-8-9885108-5-7
Published: July 21, 2024

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I’ll say my dream for these worthy artifacts is that they would be given as surprise parting gifts to friends who are about to head out to the airport. Reading these poems on a subway train on the way to the airport—that would surely produce the receptive/grateful headspace these things flourish in.

But how are the translations? Oh, I would use the word “expert.” This Anthony Opal clearly either knows a lot of Japanese, or knows enough to check carefully with people who do.

If you compare his translations with those published by, say, Columbia University Press, you find that his versions have no idiosyncrasies. Your overwhelming sense will be that he is striving to say in elegant English what it says in the elegant Japanese.

-ANTHONY MADRID, from “On Anthony Opal’s Chapbook Series of Translations from the Japanese” (Fence Digital, Constant Critic)