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Book Haiku on Ice

Download or read book Haiku on Ice written by Margaret Wang and published by Author House. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Haiku Ice

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  • Author : P. J. Reed
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-05-12
  • ISBN : 9781800497689
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Haiku Ice written by P. J. Reed and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiku Ice is the fourth part in my series of haiku collections exploring the beauty and power of winter on the Devon landscape.

Book Haiku Ice

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  • Author : P. J. Reed
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781091344129
  • Pages : 71 pages

Download or read book Haiku Ice written by P. J. Reed and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiku Ice is the fourth part in my series of haiku collections exploring the four different seasons. Each collection explores how the different seasons affect the woods, fields, hedgerows, plants, and animals which inhabit the beautiful Devonian countryside. Above all, Haiku Ice is a celebration of winter. This collection explores the magical transformations, discoveries, and interactions with nature as winter tightens her grip over the sleeping landscape. The world in winter is an enchanted place. I do not think there can be anything more magical than watching snow fall by candlelight listening to Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Winter is also the time of solitude and reflection as people and animals shelter from the cold and a wintry quietness settles on the frozen countryside. I read my poetry at many events and one of the major pieces of feedback I have received was that people were fascinated to hear the story behind the haiku. Therefore, scattered throughout this collection are my reminiscences of how some of the following haiku were written. Above all, Haiku Ice is a memory of my Devonian winters. Pictures of winters recorded as haiku for everyone to experience and enjoy.

Book Ice Melts in the Wind

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  • Author : K. I. No Tsurayuki
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-11-02
  • ISBN : 9781728826417
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Ice Melts in the Wind written by K. I. No Tsurayuki and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kokinshu, compiled around 905 C.E. in 20 thematic books, was the first imperial anthology of Japanese poetry. It was an enormous success, becoming a cultural touchstone that defined the acceptable topics, diction, imagery, and style of court poetry for the next thousand years. Haiku poets took many cues from this tradition, including giving primacy to seasonal imagery.Ice Melts in the Wind is an exciting new translation of the six books of seasonal poems, depicting the progression from New Year's Day through spring cherry blossoms and summer cuckoo songs to autumn's colorful leaves and winter's snow, ending again with the New Year. Japanese text and commentary is included for every poem, along with brief biographies of all named poets.

Book Ice

    Ice

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  • Author : Thirteen O'Clock Press
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2015-02-19
  • ISBN : 1326189212
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book Ice written by Thirteen O'Clock Press and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ice. Beautiful in its frozen stark state, dangerous to all who battle it, lethal to those caught up in it... Thirteen O'clock Press authors have come up with a startling variety of stories featuring ice - prepare to be chilled...

Book Hockey Haiku

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  • Author : John Poch
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
  • Release : 2007-04-01
  • ISBN : 1429907916
  • Pages : 129 pages

Download or read book Hockey Haiku written by John Poch and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest collection of hockey-related poetry this or any house has ever published, and a watershed moment in American letters. Hockey haiku is the most rarefied of the haiku genres, and it represents the perfect union of graceful brutality, ordered chaos, and the blood that courses through our veins...and onto the ice. Hockey Haiku: The Essential Collection is full of poems from John Poch and Chad Davidson that embody to perfection hockey's unique harmony of beauty and violence. For example: Zamboni bumper: Don't laugh---It crushed the leg of the Little Leaguer. And it turns to the questions we as a hockey society are reluctant to answer: Conflict--How can I pledge my allegiance to two national anthems?

Book Ice Chunks Once Shared  Haiku and Senryu

Download or read book Ice Chunks Once Shared Haiku and Senryu written by Dan Lukiv and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excerpt // on the barn, / the moon sits still-- / windy night

Book Ice Cycle

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  • Author : Maria Gianferrari
  • Publisher : Millbrook Press TM
  • Release : 2023-08-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Ice Cycle written by Maria Gianferrari and published by Millbrook Press TM. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Pancake ice, floebergs, glaciers, icicles . . . cold temperatures create an astonishing variety of ice forms! From Maria Gianferrari, award-winning author of Play Like an Animal!,comes a beautiful collaboration between verse and science. Brief poems and ethereal illustrations introduce readers to the many different types of ice on land and at sea. Fascinating back matter provides additional information about water as a solid, liquid, and gas, as well as more details about the unique forms of ice mentioned in the poems. Celebrate winter with this evocative and atmospheric exploration of ice!

Book This Japanese Life

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  • Author : Eryk Salvaggio
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2013-07-25
  • ISBN : 9781489596987
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book This Japanese Life written by Eryk Salvaggio and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books about Japan will tell you how to use chopsticks and say "konnichiwa!" Few honestly tackle the existential angst of living in a radically foreign culture. The author, a three-year resident and researcher of Japan, tackles the thousand tiny uncertainties of living abroad. -- Adapted from back cover

Book Bees Dead in Ice  Haiku and Senryu

Download or read book Bees Dead in Ice Haiku and Senryu written by Dan Lukiv and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised Edition: LukivPress (Canada), 2019. Previously published as the winter sun (Haiku and Tanka Anthology [Canada], 2000). // An excerpt // bees dead / in ice--what warmth / fooled them?

Book I Haiku You

Download or read book I Haiku You written by Betsy E. Snyder and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of haikus follows a Valentine's Day theme and combine an introduction to the poetic form with cartoon-style illustrations.

Book Haiku Before Haiku

Download or read book Haiku Before Haiku written by Steven D. Carter and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are identical to haiku in syllable count and structure but function differently as a genre. Whereas each haiku is its own constellation of image and meaning, a hokku opens a series of linked, collaborative stanzas in a sequence called renga. Under the mastery of Basho, hokku first gained its modern independence. His talents contributed to the evolution of the style into the haiku beloved by so many poets around the world Richard Wright, Jack Kerouac, and Billy Collins being notable devotees. Haiku Before Haiku presents 320 hokku composed between the thirteenth and early eighteenth centuries, from the poems of the courtier Nijo Yoshimoto to those of the genre's first "professional" master, Sogi, and his disciples. It features 20 masterpieces by Basho himself. Steven D. Carter introduces the history of haiku and its aesthetics, classifying these poems according to style and context. His rich commentary and notes on composition and setting illuminate each work, and he provides brief biographies of the poets, the original Japanese text in romanized form, and earlier, classical poems to which some of the hokku allude.

Book Kloten Haiku

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  • Author : Kwai Lam and
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-11-28
  • ISBN : 9781715937331
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Kloten Haiku written by Kwai Lam and and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy wild ice skating in Sweden via poems and photos. From glassy clear to snow covered, grey and cloudy to long sunsets, feel the wind, hear the glide and the mist on your face.

Book Haiku Holiday

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  • Author : Jason Flick
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2014-06-26
  • ISBN : 149073824X
  • Pages : 235 pages

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 Adlers Great Books Movement. Haiku Holiday combines lowbrow humor with the highbrow works of classical literature and considers a new approach to classical ideas.

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  Rise  Ye Sea Slugs

Download or read book Rise Ye Sea Slugs written by Robin D Gill and published by Paraverse Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! is a book of many faces. First, it is a book of translated haiku and contains over 900 of these short Japanese poems in the original (smoothly inserted in the main body),with phonetic and literal renditions, as well as the authors English translations and explanations. All but a dozen or two of the haiku are translated for the first time. There is an index of poets, poems and a bibliography. Second, it is a book of sea slug haiku, for all of the poems are about holothurians, which scientists prefer to call sea cucumbers. (The word cucumber is long for haiku and metaphorically unsuitable for many poems, so poetic license was taken.) With this book, the namako, as the sea cucumber is called in Japanese, becomes the most translated single subject in haiku, surpassing the harvest moon, the snow, the cuckoo, butterflies and even cherry blossoms. Third, it is a book of original haiku. While the authors original intent was to include only genuine old haiku (dating back to the 17th century), modern haiku were added and, eventually, Keigu (Gills haiku name) composed about a hundred of his own to help fill out gaps in the metaphorical museum. For many if not most modern haiku taken from the web, it is also their first time in print! Fourth, it is a book of metaphor. How may we arrange hundreds of poems on a single theme? Gill divides them into 21 main metaphors, including the Cold Sea Slug, the Mystic Sea Slug, the Helpless Sea Slug, the Slippery Sea Slug, the Silent Sea Slug, and the Melancholy Sea Slug, giving each a chapter, within which the metaphors may be further subdivided, and adds a 100 pages of Sundry Sea Slugs (scores of varieties including Monster, Spam, Flying, Urban Myth, and Exploding). Fifth, it is a book on haiku. E ditors usually select only the best haiku, but, Gill includes good and bad haiku by everyone from the 17th century haiku master to the anonymous haiku rejected in some internet contest. This is not to say all poems found were included, but that the standard was along more taxonomic or encyclopedic lines: poems that filled in a metaphorical or sub-metaphorical gap were always welcome. Also, Gill shows there is more than one type of good haiku. These are new ways to approach haiku. Sixth, it is a book on translation. There are approximately 2 translations per haiku, and some boast a dozen. These arearranged in mixed single, double and triple-column clusters which make each reading seem a different aspect of a singular, almost crystalline whole. The authors aim is to demonstrate that multiple reading (such as found in Hofstadters Le Ton Beau de Marot) is not only a fun game but a bona fide method of translating, especially useful for translating poetry between exotic tongues. Seventh, it is a book of nature writing, natural history or metaphysics (in the Emersonian sense). Gill tried to compile relevant or interesting (not necessarily both) historical -- this includes the sea slug in literature, English or Japanese, and in folklore -- and scientific facts to read haiku in their light or, conversely, bringor wring out science from haiku. Unlike most nature writers, Gill admits to doing no fieldwork, but sluggishly staying put and relying upon reportsfrom more mobile souls. Eighth, it is a book about food symbolism. The sea cucumber is noticed by Japanese because they eat it; the eating itselfinvolves physical difficulties (slipperiness and hardness) and pleasures from overcoming them. It is also identified with a state of mind, where you are what you eat takes on psychological dimensions not found in the food literature of the West. Ninth, it is a book about Japanese culture. Gill does not set out to explain Japan, and the sea slug itself is silent;but the collection of poems and their explanations, which include analysis by poets who responded to the author's questions as well has historical sources, take us all around the culture, from ancient myths to contemporary dreams. Tenth, it is a book about sea cucumbers. While most species of sea cucumbers are not mentioned and the coverage of the Japanese sea cucumber is sketchy from the scientific point of view, Gill does introduce this animal graced to live with no brain thanks to the smart materials comprising it and blessed for sucking in dirty sediment and pooping it out clean. Eleventh, it is a book about ambiguity. Gill admits there is much that cannot be translated, much he cannot know and much to be improved in future editions, for which purpose he advises readers to see the on-line Glosses and Errata in English and Japanese. His policy is to confide in, rather than slip by the reader unnoticed, in the manner of the invisible modern translator and allow the reader to makechoices or choose to allow multiple possibilities to exist by not chosing.Twelfth, the book is the first of dozens of spin-offs from a twenty-book haiku saijiki (poetic almanac) called In Praise of Olde Haiku (IPOOH, for short) Gill hopes to finish within the decade. Thirteenth. The book is a novelty item. It has a different (often witty) header (caption) on top of each page and copious notes that are rarely academic and oftehumorous.

Book Classic Haiku

Download or read book Classic Haiku written by Basho and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features dozens of Basho's poems as well as works by his predecessors and ten of his disciples — Kikaku, Ransetsu, Joso, and Kyoroku among them.