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Book Mondo Haiku

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sean Rima
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2013-12-17
  • ISBN : 1312015756
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book Mondo Haiku written by Sean Rima and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funky little book of haiku by Sean Rima, dedicated to Texas, the Universe, God, and Siria.

Book Venturing Upon Dizzy Heights

Download or read book Venturing Upon Dizzy Heights written by Bruce Ross and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assembles lectures and essays on literature (William Wordsworth, Walter Benjamin, Chinese mountain poetry, Friedrich Nietzsche, the Tao Te Ching), art (Paleolithic cave art, Vincent Van Gogh, American landscape painting), and Japanese poetry forms (haiku, haibun, tanka) that were originally presented and published between 2000 and 2007. The essays identify strategies to counter the so-called postmodern condition. Matters of will, ethics, and consciousness are examined in comparative contexts with the aim of formulizing models of enlightened states of being and their aesthetic expressions. This study focuses on Wordsworth's rainbow epiphany; Walter Benjamin's «aura» and «monad»; Chinese mountain poetry's cosmic emptiness; Nietzsche's Hyperborean; Paleolithic cave art's transpersonal expression; Van Gogh's «dizzy heights» of natural beauty; American landscape painters' depiction of the sublime; haiku's absolute metaphor epiphany; and tanka's connection between natural beauty and erotic feeling. The collection is a re-examination of Ralph Waldo Emerson's «fundamental unity» between humanity and nature, as well as an examination of often-unmediated affective experience and its expression in this context through literature and art.

Book Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times

Download or read book Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times written by Matsuo Basho and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master. Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; "Piles of quilts/ snow on distant mountains/ I watch both," he writes. His work captures both the profound loneliness of one observing mind and the broad-ranging joy he finds in our connections to the larger community. David Young, acclaimed translator and Knopf poet, writes in his introduction to this selection, "This poet's consciousness affiliates itself with crickets, islands, monkeys, snowfalls, moonscapes, flowers, trees, and ceremonies...Waking and sleeping, alone and in company, he moves through the world, delighting in its details." Young's translations are bright, alert, musically perfect, and rich in tenderness toward their maker.

Book The Four Seasons

Download or read book The Four Seasons written by Bashō Matsuo and published by Peter Pauper Press, Inc.. This book was released on 1958 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Turn of a Leaf

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  • Author : Andrew Hide
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2011-10-11
  • ISBN : 1447800524
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book Turn of a Leaf written by Andrew Hide and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn of a leaf is a collection of poetry written in styles which originated in oriental countries. Poetry from the east is often a snapshot of an image or images and set down to paper in a style to induce the same emotion or thoughts in the reader as witnessed by the poet. By turning each leaf you will find scenes of nature, often with an unusual perspective, lovers loved and lovers lost, children at play and even the everyday person about their daily routine.

Book Haiku  Other Arts  and Literary Disciplines

Download or read book Haiku Other Arts and Literary Disciplines written by Toru Kiuchi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiku, Other Arts, and Literary Disciplines investigates the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and determines the relationships between haiku and other arts, such as essay writing, painting, and music, as well as the backgrounds of haiku, such as literary movements, philosophies, and religions that underlie haiku composition. By analyzing the poets who played major roles in the development of haiku and its related genres, these essays illustrate how Japanese haiku poets, and American writers such as Emerson and Whitman, were inspired by nature, especially its beautiful scenes and seasonal changes. Western poets had a demonstrated affinity for Japanese haiku which bled over into other art mediums, as these chapters discuss.

Book The Sound of Water

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Shambhala Publications
  • Release : 2006-11-14
  • ISBN : 083482535X
  • Pages : 95 pages

Download or read book The Sound of Water written by and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 200 of the best haiku poems from Japanese literature, translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators and now in one giftable volume The haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness. This illustrated collection includes haiku by the great masters from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, including works by Basho, Buson, Issa, and other Japanese poets.

Book The Essential Haiku

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  • Author : Robert Hass
  • Publisher : Turtleback Books
  • Release : 1995-08
  • ISBN : 9780613339988
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Essential Haiku written by Robert Hass and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American readers have been fascinated since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku. The seventeen-syllable form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observation of nature, of making poetry from subtle suggestion. Infused by its great practitioners with the spirit of Zen Buddhism, the haiku has 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 and also as an example of spontaneity and Zen alertness to the new poets of the 1950s. This definitive collection brings together in fresh translations by an American poet the essential poems of the three greatest haiku masters: Matsuo Basho in the seventeenth century; Yosa Buson in the eighteenth century; and Kobayashi Issa in the early nineteenth century. Robert Hass has written a lively and informed introduction, provided brief examples by each poet of their work in the haibun, or poetic prose form, and included informal notes to the poems. This is a useful and inspiring addition to the Essential Poets series.

Book Modern Haiku

Download or read book Modern Haiku written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Basho

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  • Author : Basho
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-09-03
  • ISBN : 0520400739
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book Basho written by Basho and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavish collector’s edition of the complete poems of eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Bashō. Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese literature and the master of the haiku. Bashō: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō offers in English a full picture of the haiku of Bashō, 980 poems in all. In Fitzsimons’s beautiful rendering, Bashō is much more than a philosopher of the natural world and the leading exponent of a refined Japanese sensibility. He is also a poet of queer love and eroticism; of the city as well as the country, the indoors and the outdoors, travel and staying put; of lonesomeness as well as the desire to be alone. Bashō: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō reveals how this work speaks to our concerns today as much as it captures a Japan emerging from the Middle Ages. For dedicated scholars and those coming upon Bashō for the first time, this beautiful collector’s edition of Fitzsimons’s elegant award-winning translation, with the original Japanese, allows readers to enjoy these works in all their glory.

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.

Book The Spring of My Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kobayashi Issa
  • Publisher : Shambhala Publications
  • Release : 1997-10-15
  • ISBN : 0834828286
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book The Spring of My Life written by Kobayashi Issa and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), along with Basho and Buson, is considered one of the three greatest haiku poets of Japan, known for his attention to poignant detail and his playful sense of humor. Issa's most-loved work, The Spring of My Life, is an autobiographical sketch of linked prose and haiku in the tradition of Basho's famous Narrow Road to the Interior. In addition to The Spring of My Life, the translator has included more than 160 of Issa's best haiku and an introduction providing essential information on Issa's life and valuable comments on translating (and reading) haiku.

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 Bash   s Haiku

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matsuo Bashō
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2012-02-01
  • ISBN : 0791484653
  • Pages : 346 pages

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.

Book Full Moon is Rising

    Book Details:
  • Author : 芭蕉·松尾
  • Publisher : Branden Books
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN : 9780828316514
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Full Moon is Rising written by 芭蕉·松尾 and published by Branden Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a sampling of the seventeenth-century Japanese poet's works in the haiku.

Book Haiku

    Book Details:
  • Author : Manuela Dunn-Mascetti
  • Publisher : Hyperion
  • Release : 1998-12-02
  • ISBN : 9780786862511
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book Haiku written by Manuela Dunn-Mascetti and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1998-12-02 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Japanese verse form of haiku, which is used for the expression of Zen, consists of three lines and 17 syllables - the length of a human breath. This anthology includes selections from the works of authors from the classical Matsuo Basho to contemporary poets Koko Kato and Keiko Ito. The book is part of a three-volume series which also includes "Koans: the Lessons of Zen" and "Sayings: the Wisdom of Zen".

Book The Soul of the Haiku

    Book Details:
  • Author : Giuseppe Viscusi
  • Publisher : Youcanprint
  • Release : 2016-09-12
  • ISBN : 8892623664
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book The Soul of the Haiku written by Giuseppe Viscusi and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, Pino Viscusi, witness of changes in culture and traditions of the 21st century, sees in haiku poems an important element for the integration and union among people. If art is universal in its nature, the exercise of writing haiku verses can affect the lives of all, from the youngest to the elderly, allowing us to rediscover the enchantment of nature and the love for small things.