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Book Contemporary View of Haiku

Download or read book Contemporary View of Haiku written by Michael Moore and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiku by Michael Moore in both English and Spanish.

Book Haiku Moment

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  • Author : Bruce Ross
  • Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
  • Release : 2011-12-27
  • ISBN : 1462903193
  • Pages : 372 pages

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.

Book Jack Kerouac and the Traditions of Classic and Modern Haiku

Download or read book Jack Kerouac and the Traditions of Classic and Modern Haiku written by Yoshinobu Hakutani and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Kerouac and the Traditions of Classic and Modern Haiku is a reading of the haiku collected in Jack Kerouac's Book of Haikus, edited by Regina Weinreich, (2003), one of the two largest collections of English haiku. "Above all," Kerouac wrote in his journal, "a Haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and makes a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi Pastorella." Before trying his hand at composing haiku, Kerouac learned, as did Wright, the theory and technique of haiku from R. H. Blyth, the most influential haiku scholar and critic. Most of Kerouac's haiku reflect eastern philosophies―Confucianism, Buddhist ontology, and Zen―, as do classic haiku. A son of devout French Canadian Catholic parents, the young Kerouac was impressed with Christian doctrine, but later was inspired by Buddhism. In his haiku Kerouc conflates Christian doctrine of mercy with that of Buddhism. Classic haiku taught Kerouac that not only must human beings treat their fellow human beings with respect and compassion, but they must also treat nonhuman beings such as animals, insects, plants, and flowers as their equals. Many of Kerouac's haiku can be read as modern haiku for the technique of beat poetics he applied. All in all, Kerouac's haiku express the worldview that human beings are not at the center of the universe.

Book My First Book of Haiku Poems

Download or read book My First Book of Haiku Poems written by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Chosen for 2020 NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels List** **Winner of 2020 Northern Lights Book Award for Poetry** **Winner of 2019 Skipping Stones Honor Awards** My First Book of Haiku Poems introduces children to inspirational works of poetry and art that speak of our connection to the natural world, and that enhance their ability to see an entire universe in the tiniest parts of it. Each of these 20 classic poems by Issa, Shiki, Basho, and other great haiku masters is paired with a stunning original painting that opens a door to the world of a child's imagination. A fully bilingual children's book, My First Book of Haiku Poems includes the original versions of the Japanese poems (in Japanese script and Romanized form) on each page alongside the English translation to form a complete cultural experience. Each haiku poem is accompanied by a "dreamscape" painting by award-winning artist Tracy Gallup that will be admired by children and adults alike. Commentaries offer parents and teachers ready-made "food for thought" to share with young readers and stimulate a conversation about each work.

Book Poems of Consciousness

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  • Author : Richard L. Gilbert
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008-03-01
  • ISBN : 9781893959729
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book Poems of Consciousness written by Richard L. Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Painting Edo

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  • Author : Rachel Saunders
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 9780300250893
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Painting Edo written by Rachel Saunders and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanies an exhibition of the same name held at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 14-July 26, 2020.

Book The Unswept Path

Download or read book The Unswept Path written by John Brandi and published by White Pine Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Unswept Path" offers a diverse gathering of American poets who have chosen the haiku as one of the forms in which they write. Each of these poets has worked the territory of the haiku into a personal landscape, and they offer a panorama of images and sounds, joy and sadness, recollection and thought. A wonderful introduction to the art of the haiku for the writer and reader alike. Poets included are: John Brandi; Willliam J Higginson; Margaret Chula; Elizabeth Searle Lamb; Cid Corman; Michael McClure; Diane DiPrima; Sonia Sanchez; Patricia Donegan; Steve Sanfield; Penny Harter; Edith Shiffert; Christopher Herold.

Book Seeing Into Tomorrow

Download or read book Seeing Into Tomorrow written by Richard Wright and published by Millbrook Press (Tm). This book was released on 2018 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a selection of haiku poems by the acclaimed writer Richard Wright, with photograph illustrations and a short biography of Wright.

Book journey within a journey

Download or read book journey within a journey written by Anjali Warhadpande and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book ‘journey within a journey’ is a collection of contemporary / modern haiku, written by Anjali Warhadpande. Her observation and imagination of the world and emotions around her, makes this a delightful read for all poetry lovers. While the topics are as varied as the thoughts that ripple through a human mind, what is retained is the depth of emotions underlying most of them. The casual touch of words that compels the reader to delve deeper. For, the same words can bring out different emotions and observation in different people. This book paints Anjali’s perspective. describe haiku, she challenges universe in a nutshell I answer shortly A must read for poetry lovers all over the world. Especially those who are fascinated with the three lined world of haiku. much conveyed without words... ellipses

Book A Long Rainy Season

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  • Author : Leza Lowitz
  • Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
  • Release : 1998-07-01
  • ISBN : 1880656159
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book A Long Rainy Season written by Leza Lowitz and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1995 Benjamin Franklin Award, this is a landmark anthology of traditional short verse. In haiku and tanka fifteen Japanese women poets reveal universal female themes through the lens of a challenging spiritual and physical Japanese environment.

Book Book of Haikus

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  • Author : Jack Kerouac
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2013-04-01
  • ISBN : 1101664886
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book Book of Haikus written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact collection of more than 500 poems from Jack Kerouac that reveal a lesser known but important side of his literary legacy “Above all, a haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi pastorella.”—Jack Kerouac Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Following the tradition of Basho, Buson, Shiki, Issa, and other poets, Kerouac experimented with this centuries-old genre, taking it beyond strict syllable counts into what he believed was the form’s essence. He incorporated his “American” haiku in novels and in his correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings. In Book of Haikus, Kerouac scholar Regina Weinreich has supplemented a core haiku manuscript from Kerouac’s archives with a generous selection of the rest of his haiku, from both published and unpublished sources.

Book The Penguin Book of Haiku

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Haiku written by Adam L. Kern and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A revelation' Sunday Times, Books of the Year 2018 The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern. Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its brevity, usually running three lines long in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about reality, in fact the haiku is much more: it can be erotic, funny, crude and mischievous. Presenting over a thousand exemplars in vivid and engaging translations, this anthology offers an illuminating introduction to this widely celebrated, if misunderstood, art form. Adam L. Kern's new translations are accompanied here by the original Japanese and short commentaries on the poems, as well as an introduction and illustrations from the period.

Book Writing and Enjoying Haiku

Download or read book Writing and Enjoying Haiku written by Jane Reichhold and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 2002 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspiring book shows how to write and appreciate the spiritual essence of haiku in English.

Book The Essential Haiku

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  • Author : Basho Matsuo
  • Publisher : Hodder Christian Books
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781852249724
  • Pages : 0 pages

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

Book A Certain State of Mind

Download or read book A Certain State of Mind written by James Kirkup and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From the Hinted Deserts

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  • Author : Massimo Papini
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-06-26
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book From the Hinted Deserts written by Massimo Papini and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neon lights at the bus stop and sunsets, frozen shores and fireflies.The haiku poems in this collection are miniatures of the infinite universes of the Author's everyday life. Fitting a very modern imagery into the very strict and sharp structure of traditional haiku poetry, this book is a catalogue of instants and seasons where nature and love exist, or at least they should.One hundred haikus, 5-7-5 syllables that are brushstrokes on a little painting that becomes a persistent image of a young man's life between boredom and stars.Rainy days in the city or fat Shiba Inus, cherry blossoms and fractals, all can be as beautiful as a dream, all can bring back a painful memory, all can be in a short poem.

Book Modern Haiku

Download or read book Modern Haiku written by Modern Haiku and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: