Download or read book Capturing Stillness Haiku Reflections written by James Parsons and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2024-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a journey through the tranquil landscapes of nature and the inner sanctums of meditation with this collection of haiku paired with stunning photography. In "Capturing Stillness - Haiku Reflections," author and photographer James Louis Parsons intertwines the art of haiku with the practice of meditation, drawing upon the serene beauty of the natural world to inspire moments of profound stillness and introspection. Rooted in the tradition of haiku, these poems evoke a sense of timelessness while embracing the evolution of the form, offering glimpses of life's myriad moments through the lens of mindfulness and awareness. Let these haiku be your guide as you journey inward, finding peace and serenity amidst the chaos of everyday life.
Download or read book A Year in Haiku written by Harri Hykkö and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-18 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Year in Haiku: Daily Reflections" Discover the beauty and depth of haiku with "A Year in Haiku: Daily Reflections." This bilingual English-Latin edition invites you to embark on a journey through life, nature and the human spirit offering a moment of introspection for each day of the year. Experience the evocative power of haiku as it captures fleeting moments, profound insights and the delicate balance of our world. Each poem is paired with its Latin translation, bridging ancient and modern, allowing readers to appreciate the timeless nature of these reflections. Interactive Elements: Engage more deeply with each haiku through thoughtfully crafted questions and prompts for reflection, encouraging you to explore your own thoughts and feelings inspired by the poems. Supplementary Content: Enrich your understanding with occasional background information about the poems and the translation process, offering an educational layer to your reading experience. Whether you are a long-time lover of haiku or new to its charm, "A Year in Haiku: Daily Reflections" provides a serene and thought-provoking companion for your daily meditations. Allow the simplicity and elegance of these verses to resonate with you, as you explore the beauty of life in both English and Latin.
Download or read book Breathing in Stillness written by Neeraj kumar and published by Neeraj Kumar . This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some selected Haiku Poetries. "Whispers of Nature" is a collection of haikus that transports readers into a world of serene natural beauty. This book invites you to take a moment to pause and reflect on the small but significant moments in life. Through the art of haiku, each poem offers a glimpse into the beauty of nature, capturing the essence of a moment with simplicity and grace. From the flutter of a butterfly's wings to the rustling of autumn leaves, these haikus celebrate the changing seasons and the quiet wonders of the world around us. This collection will inspire readers to appreciate the present moment and find solace in the simplicity of life's everyday treasures. Whether read in solitude or shared with loved ones, "Whispers of Nature" is a timeless invitation to connect with the natural world and find beauty in the ordinary.
Download or read book Whispers of Nature written by Sora tanaka and published by Neeraj Kumar . This book was released on 2024-10-18 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Title: Kaze no Sasayaki (風のささやき) Author: Sora Tanaka Book Description: Step into the gentle world of Kaze no Sasayaki (Whispers of the Wind), a collection of delicate haiku poems crafted by Sora Tanaka. Drawing inspiration from nature, seasons, and the fleeting beauty of life, this book transports readers into quiet moments of reflection. Each haiku is a pause, a breath, and a reminder of the beauty hidden in everyday simplicity. Through these verses, you’ll experience: The changing seasons, from spring’s bloom to autumn’s quiet fall The beauty of the natural world, as seen through the eyes of a careful observer Emotional reflections on love, loss, and the passage of time Perfect for lovers of poetry and mindfulness, Kaze no Sasayaki offers a peaceful escape into a world of calm and observation. Sora Tanaka’s haikus follow the traditional Japanese style, yet evoke universal themes that speak to readers of all backgrounds. Whether you're a long-time fan of haiku or discovering it for the first time, this collection will inspire you to slow down, listen to the whispers of the wind, and find peace in the quiet moments of life. Discover the art of haiku, and let the subtle beauty of Kaze no Sasayaki fill y our heart and mind.
Download or read book Writing Haiku written by Bruce Ross and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world of dew And within every dewdrop A world of struggle The iconic three-line haiku form is increasingly popular today as people embrace its simplicity and grace--and its connections to the Japanese ethos of mindfulness and minimalism. Say more with fewer words. This practical guide by poet and teacher Bruce Ross shows you how to capture a fleeting moment, like painting a picture with words, and how to give voice to your innermost thoughts, feelings, and observations. You don't have to be a practiced poet or writer to write your own haiku, and this book shows you how. In this book, aspiring poets will find: Accessible, easy-to-replicate examples and writing prompts A foreword that looks at the state of haiku today as the form continues to expand worldwide An introduction to related Japanese haiku forms such as tanka, haiga, renga, haibun, and senryu A listing of international journals and online resources Do you want to tell a story? Give haibun a try. Maybe you want to express a fleeting feeling? A tanka is the perfect vehicle. Are you more visual than verbal? Then a haiga, or illustrated haiku, is the ideal match. Finally, a renga is perfect as a group project or to create with friends, passing a poem around, adding line after line, and seeing what your group effort amounts to. Ross walks readers through the history and form of haiku, before laying out what sets each Japanese poetic form apart. Then it's time to turn to your notebook and start drafting some verse of your own!
Download or read book Bash s Haiku written by Matsuo Bashō and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Basho's Haiku offers the most comprehensive translation yet of the poetry of Japanese writer Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694), who is credited with perfecting and popularizing the haiku form of poetry. One of the most widely read Japanese writers, both within his own country and worldwide, Bashō is especially beloved by those who appreciate nature and those who practice Zen Buddhism. Born into the samurai class, Bashō rejected that world after the death of his master and became a wandering poet and teacher. During his travels across Japan, he became a lay Zen monk and studied history and classical poetry. His poems contained a mystical quality and expressed universal themes through simple images from the natural world. David Landis Barnhill's brilliant book strives for literal translations of Bashō's work, arranged chronologically in order to show Bashō's development as a writer. Avoiding wordy and explanatory translations, Barnhill captures the brevity and vitality of the original Japanese, letting the images suggest the depth of meaning involved. Barnhill also presents an overview of haiku poetry and analyzes the significance of nature in this literary form, while suggesting the importance of Bashō to contemporary American literature and environmental thought.
Download or read book Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo written by Sondra Fraleigh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now re-issued, this compact book unravels the contribution of one of modern theatre’s most charismatic innovators. Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo combines: • an account of the founding of Japanese butoh through the partnership of Hijikata and Ohno, extending to the larger story of butoh’s international assimilation • an exploration of the impact of the social and political issues of post-World War II Japan on the aesthetic development of butoh • metamorphic dance experiences that students of butoh can explore • a glossary of English and Japanese terms. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today’s student.
Download or read book Japanese Death Poems written by and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1998-04-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.
Download or read book Haiku Moment written by Bruce Ross and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu. This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses. Too impetuous to be satisfied as a subsidiary wife, this beautiful (and unnamed) noblewoman of the Heian dynasty protests the marriage system of her time in one of Japanese literature's earliest attempts to portray difficult elements of the predominant social hierarchy. A classic work of early Japanese prose, The Gossamer Years is an important example of the development of Heian literature, which, at its best, represents an extraordinary flowering of realistic expression, an attempt, unique for its age, to treat the human condition with frankness and honesty. A timeless and intimate glimpse into the culture of ancient Japan, this translation by Edward Seidensticker paints a revealing picture of married life in the Heian period.
Download or read book Critical Rhythm written by Ben Glaser and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. Distinct from the related terms to which it’s often assimilated—scansion, prosody, meter—rhythm makes legible a range of ways poetry affects us that cannot be parsed through the traditional resources of poetic theory. Rhythm has rich but also problematic roots in still-lingering nineteenth-century notions of primitive, oral, communal, and sometimes racialized poetics. But there are reasons to understand and even embrace its seductions, including its resistance to lyrical voice and even identity. Through exploration of rhythm’s genealogies and present critical debates, the essays consistently warn against taking rhythm to be a given form offering ready-made resources for interpretation. Pressing beyond poetry handbooks’ isolated descriptions of technique or inductive declarations of what rhythm “is,” the essays ask what it means to think rhythm. Rhythm, the contributors show, happens relative to the body, on the one hand, and to language, on the other—two categories that are distinct from the literary, the mode through which poetics has tended to be analyzed. Beyond articulating what rhythm does to poetry, the contributors undertake a genealogical and theoretical analysis of how rhythm as a human experience has come to be articulated through poetry and poetics. The resulting work helps us better understand poetry both on its own terms and in its continuities with other experiences and other arts. Contributors: Derek Attridge, Tom Cable, Jonathan Culler, Natalie Gerber, Ben Glaser, Virginia Jackson, Simon Jarvis, Ewan Jones, Erin Kappeler, Meredith Martin, David Nowell Smith, Yopie Prins, Haun Saussy
Download or read book Practice Development in Nursing and Healthcare written by Brendan McCormack and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its first edition, Practice Development in Nursing made an important contribution to understanding practice development and its core components. Now fully updated to take into account the many developments in the field, the second edition continues to fill an important gap in the market for an accessible, practical text on what remains a key issue for all members of the healthcare team globally. Practice Development in Nursing and Healthcare explores the basis of practice development and its aims, implementation and impact on healthcare, to enable readers to be confident in their approaches to practice development. It is aimed at healthcare professionals in a variety of roles (for example clinical practice, education, research and quality improvement) and students, as well as those with a primary practice development role, in order to enable them to effectively and knowledgeably develop practice and the practice of others. Key features: New updated edition of a seminal text in the field, including significant new material Relevance to the entire healthcare team Accessible and practical in style, with case studies, scenarios and examples throughout Edited by and with contributions from experts in the field Fully updated to include the latest research Supported by a strong evidence base
Download or read book Buddhism The Art of Living Your Guide to Introducing Joy Peace A Complete Guide to Discover the Secrets of Tibetan Buddhism written by Wayne Newberry and published by Wayne Newberry. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn everything you need to know about buddhism in this clear and straightforward new guide. Buddhism was founded thousands of years ago, and has inspired millions of people with its peaceful teachings. Buddhism 101 highlights and explains the central concepts of buddhism to the modern reader, with information on mindfulness, karma, the four noble truths, the middle way, and more. Whether you’re just looking to understand buddhism or explore the philosophy in your own life and own journey to enlightenment, this book gives you everything you need to know! Here is a preview of what you'll find in this book • An introduction to the philosophy that guides buddhism • The teachings of buddha and its practical implications • Notable characteristics of the teachings • Taming wild elephants • The four noble truths • Meditation as discovery • And much much more... Being happy makes us feel better and it makes our life better! When we are in our natural state of joy, everything is easier. When challenges arise, we can see with clarity and discover solutions. We’re more efficient and productive at work. Our creativity increases. We become more generous with our time and attention. The constant pressure to protect ourselves diminishes and we’re able to be open and honest with those we meet. Basically every aspect of our life improves when we are happy.
Download or read book The Essential Haiku written by Basho Matsuo and published by Hodder Christian Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Haiku brings together Robert Hass's beautifully fresh translations of the three great masters of the Japanese haiku tradition: Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the ascetic and seeker, and the haiku poet most familiar to English readers; Yosa Buson (1716-83), the artist, a painter renowned for his visually expressive poetry; and Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), the humanist, whose haiku are known for their poignant or ironic wit. Each haiku master's section of the book is prefaced with an eloquent and informative introduction by Robert Hass, followed by a selection of over 100 poems and then by other poetry or prose by the poet, including journals and nature writing. Opening with Hass's superb introductory essay on haiku, the book concludes with a section devoted to Basho's writings and conversations on poetry. The seventeen-syllable haiku form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observation of nature, of making poetry from subtle suggestion. Each haiku is a meditation, a centring, a crystalline moment of realisation. Reading them has a way of bringing about calm and peace within the reader. The symbolism of the seasons and the Japanese habit of mind blend together in these poems to create an alchemy of reflection that is unsurpassed in literature. Infused by its great practitioners with the spirit of Zen Buddhism, the haiku served as an example of the power of direct observation to the first generation of American modernist poets like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams as well as an example of spontaneity and Zen alertness to the new poets of post-war America and Britain. Universal in its appeal, Robert Hass's The Essential Haiku is the definitive introduction to haiku and its greatest poets, and has been a bestseller in America for twenty years. 'I know that for years I didn't see how deeply personal these poems were or, to say it another way, how much they have the flavour - Basho might have said "the scent" - of particular human life, because I had been told and wanted to believe that haiku were never subjective. I think it was D.H. Lawrence who said the soul can get to heaven in one leap but that, if it does, it leaves a demon in its place. Better to sink down through the level of these poems - their attention to the year, their ideas about it, the particular human consciousness the poems reflect, Basho's profound loneliness and sense of suffering, Buson's evenness of temper, his love for the materials of art and for the colour and shape of things, Issa's pathos and comedy and anger' - Robert Hass
Download or read book Basho written by Bashō Matsuo and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 2008 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matsuo Basho stands today as Japan's most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Yet despite his stature, Basho's complete haiku have never been collected under one cover. Until now. To render the writer's full body of work in English, Jane Reichhold, an American haiku poet and translator, dedicated over ten years to the present compilation. In Barbo: The Complete Haiku she accomplishes the feat with distinction. Dividing the poet's creative output into seven periods of development, Reichhold frames each period with a decisive biographical sketch of the poet's travels, creative influences, and personal triumphs and defeats. Supplementary material includes two hundred pages of scrupulously researched notes, which also contain a literal translation of the poem, the original Japanese, and a Romanized reading. A glossary, chronology, index of first lines, and explanation of Basho's haiku techniques provide additional background information. Finally in the spirit of Basho, elegant semi-e ink drawings by well-known Japanese artist Shiro Tsujimura front each chapter.
Download or read book An Introduction to Haiku written by Harold Gould Henderson and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1958 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Henderson analyzes the popular seventeen-syllable haiku and provides translations of important works.
Download or read book Stone Mirrors written by Jeannine Atkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A biographical novel in verse of a half Native American, half African American female sculptor, Edmonia Lewis, working in the years right after the Civil War"--
Download or read book Japanese Haiku written by Peter Beilenson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
