Writing Class – The Process of Observation

This short class includes a close reading of Wei Ying-Wu’s poem Heartbreak at Our Old Dwelling, translated by Red Pine (In Such Hard Times, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2009) and Matsuo Basho’s haiku, The old pond… translated by Robert Hass (Essential Haiku,New York:Ecco Press, 1994)