Download or read book Haiku of Hawaii written by Annette Schafer Morrow and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic collection of Japanese haiku focuses on the beautiful Hawaiian Islands. Poetry is the voice of man's humanity. It that special art form, that private vocabulary, in which the writer speaks to the reader of things they both have known and dreamed together. The seventeen syllables haiku, the most imagistic of all literary art forms of Japanese culture, was used by Mrs. Morrow to express her feelings, longings, and joys. As the Japanese make up the largest single ethnic group in Hawaii, it is their eyes Mrs. Morrow has borrowed to look at these beautiful islands. Many brush style illustrations, both delicate and bold, by Suno Hironaka accompany poems.
Download or read book Haiku of Hawaii written by Annette Schaefer Morrow and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kanaloa s Kin written by Lia La Mer and published by Lyricline Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: graphite and watercolor paintings of hawaiian reef fish with accompanying haiku
Download or read book Haiku of Hawaii Nei written by Carol Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Love and Barley written by Matsuo Basho and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1985-08-29 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the smallness of human life in comparison to the vastness and drama of nature. Basho himself enjoyed solitude and a life free from possessions, and his haiku are the work of an observant eye and a meditative mind, uncluttered by materialism and alive to the beauty of the world around him.
Download or read book Poems and Haiku s From the Heart written by Marie M. Kaikuana-Maxwell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-10-04 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Poems and Haiku's from the Heart, Marie M Kaikuana-Maxwell a native of Hawaii; writes about her culture/heritage, military background, her love of sports, martial arts background, and most importantly family. The author gives a lot of pertinent information on poetry. She states the different types of Elements and the kinds/types of poetry. She gives you tips/points on how or where to begin writing your own poems. As well as a little history on poetry. She also explains/compares the Haiku (Japanese Poetry) to everyday poetry. She even encourages everyone to read more and start writing their own books.
Download or read book Basho and the Dao written by Peipei Qiu and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-07-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although haiku is well known throughout the world, few outside Japan are familiar with its precursor, haikai (comic linked verse). Fewer still are aware of the role played by the Chinese Daoist classics in turning haikai into a respected literary art form. Bashō and the Dao examines the haikai poets’ adaptation of Daoist classics, particularly the Zhuangzi, in the seventeenth century and the eventual transformation of haikai from frivolous verse to high poetry. The author analyzes haikai’s encounter with the Zhuangzi through its intertextual relations with the works of Bashō and other major haikai poets, and also the nature and characteristics of haikai that sustained the Zhuangzi’s relevance to haikai poetic construction. She demonstrates how the haikai poets’ interest in this Daoist work was rooted in the intersection of deconstructing and reconstructing the classical Japanese poetic tradition. Well versed in both Chinese and Japanese scholarship, Qiu explores the significance of Daoist ideas in Bashō’s and others’ conceptions of haikai. Her method involves an extensive hermeneutic reading of haikai texts, an in-depth analysis of the connection between Chinese and Japanese poetic terminology, and a comparison of Daoist traits in both traditions. The result is a penetrating study of key ideas that have been instrumental in defining and rediscovering the poetic essence of haikai verse. Bashō and the Dao adds to an increasingly vibrant area of academic inquiry—the complex literary and cultural relations between Japan and China in the early modern era. Researchers and students of East Asian literature, philosophy, and cultural criticism will find this book a valuable contribution to cross-cultural literary studies and comparative aesthetics.
Download or read book Westlake written by Wayne Kaumualii Westlake and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-01-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an all-too-brief life and literary career, Wayne Kaumualii Westlake (1947–1984) produced a substantial body of poetry. He broke new ground as a poet, translated Taoist classical literature and Japanese haiku, interwove perspectives from his Hawaiian heritage into his writing and art, and published his work locally, regionally, and internationally. Westlake was born on Maui and raised on the island of O‘ahu, where he attended Punahou School, and later the University of Oregon. He earned his B.A. in Chinese studies at the University of Hawai‘i. At the time of his tragic death in 1984, Westlake was at the height of his poetic career. Unfortunately, the only collection of his poems available at the time was a 32-page, limited edition chapbook independently published by a small press. The present volume, long overdue, includes nearly two hundred of Westlake’s poems—most unavailable to the public or never before published.
Download or read book The Folding Cliffs written by W. S. Merwin and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2000-03-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and “one of the greatest poets of our age … the Thoreau of our era” (Edward Hirsch) comes a thrilling story, in verse, of nineteenth-century Hawaii. Here is the story of an attempt by the government to seize and constrain possible victims of leprosy and the determination of one small family not to be taken. A tale of the perils and glories of their flight into the wilds of the island of Kauai, pursued by a gunboat full of soldiers. A brilliant capturing—inspired by the poet's respect for the people of these islands—of their life, their history, the gods and goddesses of their mythic past. A somber revelation of the wrecking of their culture through the exploitative incursions of Europeans and Americans. An epic narrative that enthralls with the grandeur of its language and of its vision.
Download or read book The Echo of Our Song written by Mary Kawena Pukui and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1979-04-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haina ia mai ana ka puana. This familiar refrain, sometimes translated "Let the echo of our song be heard," appears among the closing lines in many nineteenth-century chants and poems. From earliest times, the chanting of poetry served the Hawaiians as a form of ritual celebration of the things they cherished--the beauty of their islands, the abundance of wild creatures that inhabited their sea and air, the majesty of their rulers, and the prowess of their gods. Commoners as well as highborn chiefs and poet-priests shared in the creation of the chants. These haku mele, or "composers," the commoners especially, wove living threads from their own histoic circumstances and everyday experiences into the ongoing oral tradition, as handed down from expert to pupil, or from elder to descendant, generation after generation. This anthology embraces a wide variety of compositions: it ranges from song-poems of the Pele and Hiiaka cycle and the pre-Christian Shark Hula for Ka-lani-opuu to postmissionary chants and gospel hymns. These later selections date from the reign of Ka-mehameha III (1825-1854) to that of Queen Liliu-o-ka-lani (1891-1893) and comprise the major portion of the book. They include, along with heroic chants celebrating nineteenth-century Hawaiian monarchs, a number of works composed by commoners for commoners, such as Bill the Ice Skater, Mr. Thurston's Water-Drinking Brigade, and The Song of the Chanter Kaehu. Kaehu was a distinguished leper-poet who ended his days at the settlement-hospital on Molokai.
Download or read book Pearl Drops of Aloha written by John Robert Coleman and published by Heart Card Productions. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearl Drops of Aloha is delightful, timeless book of imagery and poetry gracing the Spirit of Aloha. From the collection of James Coleman's tropic artistry and John-Robert 's poetic word play may find you captivated by a waterfall of the natural beauty and majestic power of the Hawaiian Isles. It's an outpouring of love for the land and its people. They share it by splashing you with some whimsical anecdotes, free verse, proverbs and haiku. May you also find a hidden treasure of an unsong song of aloha, ' Oh Hawai'i My Hawai'i.' Be you an Islander or International visitor this little book is rated leisure, entertaining and easy-to-read; makes for a great beach-side companion!
Download or read book Seasons In Haiku written by Kathryn Waddell Takara and published by Pacific Raven Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Seasons in Haiku, Takara beckons us once again to follow her down a pathway of purposeful communication cleared by poetic power. Only this time, she widens her focus beyond human interconnectivity to include human kinship with the four seasons of the natural world. For this 10th publication, she presents, for the first time, her selected haiku. Haiku is the traditional Japanese poem of three lines and seventeen syllables, that, despite its brevity, offers bursts of imagery that are mesmerizing in their simplicity and largely based on the poet's first-hand experiences of nature, anchored in observations of the seasons. In this collection, Takara's haiku are separated into four sections that correspond with the four seasons: Spring becomes SONG; Summer becomes SHIMMER; Autumn becomes SHADOWS; and Winter becomes SOJOURN. Her haiku crisscrosses seamlessly between the visible and invisible layers of unfathomable phenomena that define each of these seasons. She deftly conveys these phases of nature as fleeting moments that elude the human yearning for permanence. With images that are pure distillations of sensorial experiences, she serves notice that the only sure thing about these seasonal moments is that they are transient and subject to change.
Download or read book The Anthology of Hawaii Education Association Haiku Award Winners 1977 1979 written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiku by school children in Hawaii.
Download or read book The Anthology of Hawaii Education Association Haiku Award Winners written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The River of Heaven written by Robert Aitken and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In this, his final work, American senior Zen Roshi Robert Aitken lovingly ties together two threads, Zen practice and haiku.” —Spirituality & Health Known to many as the study of quiet stillness and introspection, Zen Buddhism distinguishes itself through brilliant flashes of insight and its terseness of expression. In River of Heaven these concepts and pillars lend themselves to an exploration of Haiku, one of the most delicate and interpretive poetic forms in the world. The haiku verse form, with its rigid structure and organic description is a superb means of studying Zen modes of thought because its seventeen syllables impose a limitation that confines the poet to vital experience. In Haiku as in Buddhism, the silences are as expressive as the words. In this volume, American Senior Zen Roshi Robert Aitken gives new insight into Haiku by poetic masters Basho, Issa, Buson, and Shiki. In presenting themes from Haiku and from Zen literature, Aitken illuminates the relationship between the two. Readers are certain to find this an invaluable and enjoyable experience for the remarkable revelation it offers. “I am grateful for Robert Aitken’s enthusiastic sharing of poems in The River of Heaven, together with his rich personal and cultural perspectives. It is a book where the author joyfully calls each of us as readers to share in the transcendent joys of haiku.” —Juxtapositions “Aitken mines the meanings in these brief gems about nature, impermanence, travel, awareness, silence, beauty, being present, the turn of the seasons, and much more.” —Spirituality & Practice
Download or read book Westlake written by Wayne Kaumualii Westlake and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-01-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an all-too-brief life and literary career, Wayne Kaumualii Westlake (1947–1984) produced a substantial body of poetry. He broke new ground as a poet, translated Taoist classical literature and Japanese haiku, interwove perspectives from his Hawaiian heritage into his writing and art, and published his work locally, regionally, and internationally. Westlake was born on Maui and raised on the island of O‘ahu, where he attended Punahou School, and later the University of Oregon. He earned his B.A. in Chinese studies at the University of Hawai‘i. At the time of his tragic death in 1984, Westlake was at the height of his poetic career. Unfortunately, the only collection of his poems available at the time was a 32-page, limited edition chapbook independently published by a small press. The present volume, long overdue, includes nearly two hundred of Westlake’s poems—most unavailable to the public or never before published.
Download or read book The Anthology of Hawaii Education Association Haiku Award Winners 1981 1983 written by Hawaii Education Association and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
