Everything you want to know about haiku written by one of the foremost experts in the field and the "finest translator of contemporary Japanese poetry into American English" (Gary Snyder)Who doesn't love haiku? It is not only America's most popular cultural import from Japan but also our most popular poetic form: instantly recognizable, more mobile than a sonnet, loved for its simplicity and compression, as well as its ease of composition. Haiku is an ancient literary form seemingly made for the Twittersphere—Jack Kerouac and Langston Hughes wrote them, Ezra Pound and the Imagists were inspired by them, Hallmark's made millions off them, first-grade students across the country still learn to write them. But what really is a haiku? Where does the form originate? Who were the original Japanese poets who wrote them? And how has their work been translated into English over the years? The haiku form comes down to us today as a cliché: a three-line...
List Chapter or Page:
Page 1Page 2Page 3Page 4Page 5Page 6Page 7Page 8Page 9Page 10Page 11Page 12Page 13Page 14Page 15Page 16Page 17Page 18Page 19Page 20 View More >>- Fae Rose Academy: Year One (For The Purely Divine Book 1)
- The Bluebird Girls: The Forces' Sweethearts 1
- Revealing the Fae King: Reverse Harem Romance (Bramble's Edge Academy Book 3)
- The Heirloom Garden
- Lunar Assault: Mechanized Warfare on a Galactic Scale (Metal Legion Book 4)
- The Spider Queen
- Where Fortune Lies
- To Carve a Fae Heart (The Fair Isle Trilogy Book 1)