Download or read book Haiku Holiday written by Jason Flick and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a struggling author and student is being followed by the cops at the end of his probation? He takes a "Haiku Holiday," and spends a week at home in his underwear drinking beer, smoking cigars, and writing haikus. Will he pass his class? Will he find love on the internet? Will he sell his car so he can pay his bills? Will he succeed at gaining his freedom? Will he finally do his dishes? Find out what happens when one man takes a journey of self-discovery on a... Haiku Holiday. This book is a work of adult humor and haiku poetry. It is based on the very esteemed and academic Mortimer Adler's Great Books Movement. Haiku Holiday combines lowbrow humor with the highbrow works of classical literature and considers a new approach to classical ideas.

Download or read book Christmas Haiku written by Patricia Furstenberg and published by . This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational collection of winter and Christmas themed haiku to help you relax.Enjoy a daily haiku paired with gorgeous seasonal images as well as haiku for "The 12 Days of Christmas". What readers say about Patricia's haiku:"Haikus at the end were tiny diamonds." (Kathryn Meyer Griffith, long time author) "Haiku as little gems of brilliance."(Linda Hill, Book reviewer and blogger) "I really liked the haiku - these short bursts of Japanese poetry."(Nicola, Short Book and Scribes blogger and reviewer) CANDLELIGHT "Enchanting secretScattered around, never lost.A shared dream lives on." WHAT IS HAIKU? Now an universal form of poetry, the haiku is originally a Japanese stanza form that prospered between the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.Haiku is famous for its simple, clean lines and its briefness, usually comprising of three lines, seventeen syllables (5-7-5).Haiku uses imagery to make deep-thought annotations about reality, like brush strokes. In fact haiku is much more: it can be sensual, humorous, honest and playful.

Download or read book Holiday Haiku July August 1996 written by C. J. Driver and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hometown Appetites written by Kelly Alexander and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking biography of a pioneering American woman and one of our greatest culinary figures In Hometown Appetites, Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris come together to revive the legacy of the most important food writer you have never heard of. Clementine Paddleford was a Kansas farm girl who grew up to chronicle America's culinary habits. Her weekly readership at the New York Herald Tribune topped 12 million during the 1950s and 1960s and she earned a salary of $250,000. Yet twenty years after "America's best-known food editor" passed away, she had been forgotten--until now. Before Paddleford, newspaper food sections were dull primers on home economy. But she changed all of that, composing her own brand of sassy, unerringly authoritative prose designed to celebrate regional home cooking. This book restores Paddleford's name where it belongs: in the pantheon alongside greats like James Beard and Julia Child.

Download or read book Crevasse written by Nicholas Wong and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Nicholas Wong is a poet and teacher and even a "fire-starter," according to Time Out: Hong Kong. His poetry collection Crevasse, which Tarfia Faizullah described as "poetry that is unashamed to be relentless" and Ocean Vuong called "a book of seared seeking, a restlessness that opens," is Kaya's most recent release. In celebration of this book, Kaya asked him a few questions about language, poetry, and writing. Nicholas Wong has has been a finalist for the New Letters Poetry Award and the Wabash Prize for Poetry, and he received his MFA from City University of Hong Kong.--

Download or read book Chicken Haiku written by Karin S. Wiberg and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightful book is the perfect gift for chicken lovers. Its 24 haiku and matching illustrations celebrate the personalities of the coop with both humor and sophistication. Poems blend traditional haiku elements with a playful twist; clever illustrations bring each poem to life. Appealing to adults and children alike.

Download or read book The Year in Haiku written by Trish Gannon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiku has an accessible, poetic charm that balances artistry with intention. Each turn of phrase reminds us of the natural world with a seasonal reference, explicit or implied. This collection takes readers of all ages through the year, featuring haiku inspired by 35 different holidays. As standalone poems or paired with glorious photographs, the haiku offer glimpses of our annual celebrations, with tribute to the places they hold within our cultures and calendars.

Download or read book Kids Celebrate written by Maria Bonfanti Esche and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children love learning about special days and celebrating them with arts and crafts. Skipping the typical green shamrocks, orange paper pumpkins, and red doily hearts, Kids Celebrate! lists 100 days to remember with 200 related activities for children and grown-ups. There's a Hansel and Gretel walk for Jakob Grimm's birthday, a Mexican fiesta for Cinco de Mayo, and a first aid kit to make in honor of Clara Barton's Birthday. The significance of each special day is explained in this educational tribute to the holidays, history, and accomplishments of many cultures and many people.

Download or read book The Wonder Paradox written by Jennifer Michael Hecht and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent road map to meaning and connection through poetry. Where do we find magic? Peace? Connection? We have calendars to mark time, communal spaces to bring us together, bells to signal hours of contemplation, official archives to record legacies, the wisdom of sages read aloud, weekly, to map out the right way to live—in kindness, justice, morality. These rhythms and structures of society were all once set by religion. Now, for many, religion no longer runs the show. So how then to celebrate milestones? Find rules to guide us? Figure out which texts can focus our attention but still offer space for inquiry, communion, and the chance to dwell for a dazzling instant in what can’t be said? Where, really, are truth and beauty? The answer, says The Wonder Paradox, is in poetry. In twenty chapters built from years of questions and conversations with those looking for an authentic and meaningful life, Jennifer Michael Hecht offers ways to mine and adapt the useful aspects of tradition and to replace what no longer feels true. Through cultures and poetic wisdom from around the world—Sappho, Rumi, Shakespeare, Issa, Tagore, Frost, Szymborska, Angelou, and others—she blends literary criticism with spiritual guidance rooted in the everyday. Linking our needs to particular poems, she helps us better understand those needs, our very being, and poetry itself. Our capacity for wonder is one of the greatest joys of being human; The Wonder Paradox celebrates that instinct and that yearning.

Download or read book Holiday Haiku written by Rebecca B. Rust and published by . This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Homeowner Haiku written by Jerry Ratch and published by Frog Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a Realtor who is also a poet and novelist, Homeowner Haiku elegantly encapsulates the often enervating process of the real estate transaction. These brief flashes, a perfect calming gift for anyone buying or selling a home, satisfy and challenge the reader with vivid images and pithy insights, as in this sample: "Dream house / we see our / children climbing the pear tree / that's not yet planted." Sherry Karver's artwork expands the experience of poems like "Zen and the Art of Homeownership" and "Those Little Voices" that run the gamut from comic to elegiac.

Download or read book Dogku written by Andrew Clements and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale in haiku of one adorable dog. Let’s find him a home. Wandering through the neighborhood in the early-morning hours, a stray pooch follows his nose to a back-porch door. After a bath and some table scraps from Mom, the dog meets three lovable kids. It’s all wags and wiggles until Dad has to decide if this stray pup can become the new family pet. Has Mooch finally found a home? Told entirely in haiku by master storyteller Andrew Clements, this delightful book is a clever fusion of poetry and puppy dog.

Download or read book Milhouse s Dad written by G. Roland Selby and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milhouse's Dad is a heartfelt account of a grieving father's memories of his exceptional son, of their life together and of the father's struggle to find meaning in the seemingly empty existence that followed the violent death of the son who had filled his life with joy. The happy "coming-of-age" stories and warm descriptions of family adventures are interspersed with soulful chapters revealing the deep feelings of grief experienced by the family, of their post-traumatic quest for some understanding of their loss and of their painful efforts toward accepting a life without the beloved young man who was so cruelly taken from them. This is a story about the heights of joy we can all experience and of the depths of despair that can lurk, unexpectedly, around ever corner.

Download or read book GoatMan written by Thomas Thwaites and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dazzling success of The Toaster Project, including TV appearances and an international book tour, leaves Thomas Thwaites in a slump. His friends increasingly behave like adults, while Thwaites still lives at home, "stuck in a big, dark hole." Luckily, a research grant offers the perfect out: a chance to take a holiday from the complications of being human—by transforming himself into a goat. What ensues is a hilarious and surreal journey through engineering, design, and psychology, as Thwaites interviews neuroscientists, animal behaviorists, prosthetists, goat sanctuary workers, and goatherds. From this, he builds a goat exoskeleton—artificial legs, helmet, chest protector, raincoat from his mum, and a prosthetic goat stomach to digest grass (with help from a pressure cooker and campfire)—before setting off across the Alps on four legs with a herd of his fellow creatures. Will he make it? Do Thwaites and his readers discover what it truly means to be human? GoatMan tells all in Thwaites's inimitable style, which NPR extols as "a laugh-out- loud-funny but thoughtful guide through his own adventures."

Download or read book Humbled Wise Men Christmas Haikus written by Daniel J. Flore, III and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-12 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas is miraculous and Humbled Wise Men, Christmas Haikus is a celebration of its magic. These poems are like Christmas cards to the reader. Go to a manger in Bethlehem, hear the churchbells ring, see a lone Christmas tree while you're stuck in traffic and get home to the joy of family. These images and more all make Humbled Wise Men a Christmas miracle in itself.Praise for humbled wise men Christmas haikus-"We all come to holidays with our own set of expectations, memories, joys and sorrows. Dan Flore, one of Late Night's Favorite Poets, has put together a charming collection of his own American take on Holiday Haiku. In his insightful, sensitive style he turns his eyes and his heart to the Christmas spirit.It's a generous holiday gift for all." Late Night PoetsABOUT THE AUTHORDaniel J. Flore III's poems have appeared in many publications. His other book Lapping Water is also available from GenZ Publishing. He spends his Christmas' with his wife Jamie and their cat Tulip.

Download or read book Spiritual Misfit written by Michelle DeRusha and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the author's account of the loss of her Catholic faith, how acknowledging her unbelief allowed her to truly begin her spiritual journey, and how she came to see the possibility that faith, uncertainty, and doubt can coexist.

Download or read book Neko Atsume Kitty Collector Haiku Seasons of the Kitty written by , Hit Point and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiku for Cat Lovers Follow the cute cartoon kitties of the Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector mobile game as they stalk through the seasons of the year, their misadventures captured in witty haiku. Have you ever wondered what the Neko Atsume kitties get up to when they’re not playing with the toys you set out for them or leaving you fish...? Turn the inventive pages of this haiku almanac and find out! Warning: Includes kitty stats, kitty bios, rare kitties, kitty shenanigans...and STICKERS! -- VIZ Media