A review by fei_chan
Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death by Yoel Hoffmann

informative reflective

3.0

Good history, but many descriptions of the haikus can become pretty repetitive. Some haikus are just common sense if you use your brain, such as “I move my face toward the moon” description basically: “This means the monk moved his pillow closer towards the window to see the moon before death” Um….no duh? Otherwise it’s a nice little book about death poems.