Download or read book The Silence Between Us written by Wally Swist and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooks Books is pleased to publish The Silence Between Us: Selected Haiku of Wally Swist. Wally Swist has been an active contributor to the American haiku community since the 1970s, publishing haiku in numerous haiku magazines and serving as book review editor for Modern Haiku magazine from 1989 until 1997. Several chapbooks of his haiku have been published over the last fifteen years, and he has four books of lyric or narrative poetry in print. His haiku have been included in several major haiku anthologies and published in many magazines, so it is with great pleasure that Brooks Books publishes a gathering of Wally Swists best haiku into this collection, The Silence Between Us.Special thanks are due to Lee Gurga, editor of Modern Haiku magazine, who helped Wally review his published work and select haiku for inclusion in this collection. We also reconsidered the manuscript selection and added haiku. Wally has carefully arranged the order of the haiku so that the reader enjoys a careful slow read, without jarring or unfortunate juxtapositions of haiku.Wally Swist is a master of nature haiku, and he brings a certain reserved New England understatement to his work. It is often the things unsaid, the silences between the images, that make all the difference in his work. We are sure you will enjoy this journey into the silence as you read and savor each haiku in this book.Randy & Shirley BrooksDecatur, Illinois
Download or read book Tanka Senryu and Haiku a collection written by Jan Oskar Hansen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elysium A Collection of Haiku and Senryu written by Hernan R. Chang and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elysium is a collection of 240 haiku and senryu. I have tried to capture the simplicity, depth and beauty of certain moments in these poems.
Download or read book Paul and Papa Innocence and Emotions written by Harris Vernick and published by Yvonne Crain. This book was released on 2006 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A telephone call to Senator J. William Fulbright's Washington D.C. office affected a change of assignment for new Warrant Officer Pilot Thomas Butler to Medical Evacuation School. He could not have known how this favor' would effect his future and the decisions he would make in combat. With only minor glimpses into the struggles of an African American as a Warrant Officer Cadet during the late 1960's, we are catapulted into the jungles of Vietnam. Mr. Butler presents a rare look into the lives of the men whose task it was to retrieve the wounded from the battlefields and jungles of Vietnam. He tells the story like none other has, very effectively including the writings of a North Vietnamese officer, Captain Trang.
Download or read book Seeds From a Birch Tree written by Clark Strand and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A respected Zen Buddhist presents haiku--a seventeen-line poem arranged in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables--as a writing meditation and spiritual path which opens the reader to the experience of nature. Divided into three parts, the book follows the author's passage from haiku novice to a place of understanding haiku and himself.
Download or read book Haiku Senryu and Poetry written by M. Karl Kulikowski and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pot Pourri of Poetry written by John Olson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of various types of poetry. There is haikus and senryus also Humorous and some dark side poems. There is also dedicated poems to friends and family and co-workers. I feel that my poems will make you feel sad and happy at times and some will make you laugh and then others will make you sit back and think. It is said that poets seem to put a lot of themselves in their poems. I feel that is true from peoples reviews and commenmts after they read my poetry. So sit back and enjoy.
Download or read book Poeternitry written by Karen Davies and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-05-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poeternitry is a comet's ride through the human mind to the spiritual world beyond. You'll be taken on a journey through love and darkness to the shores of faith and fantasy. This collection of poems by Karen Davies shows her ability to write across a wide range of subjects from the "Gates of Heaven" to the darkest parts of the human mind. Her ability to write multiple forms, such as, the simple and thought provoking "haiku" to the rhythmic flow of the "Shakespearean Sonnet." She'll take you on a muse's journey through imagination to all that is eternal.
Download or read book Writing Haiku written by Bruce Ross and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world of dew And within every dewdrop A world of struggle The iconic three-line haiku form is increasingly popular today as people embrace its simplicity and grace--and its connections to the Japanese ethos of mindfulness and minimalism. Say more with fewer words. This practical guide by poet and teacher Bruce Ross shows you how to capture a fleeting moment, like painting a picture with words, and how to give voice to your innermost thoughts, feelings, and observations. You don't have to be a practiced poet or writer to write your own haiku, and this book shows you how. In this book, aspiring poets will find: Accessible, easy-to-replicate examples and writing prompts A foreword that looks at the state of haiku today as the form continues to expand worldwide An introduction to related Japanese haiku forms such as tanka, haiga, renga, haibun, and senryu A listing of international journals and online resources Do you want to tell a story? Give haibun a try. Maybe you want to express a fleeting feeling? A tanka is the perfect vehicle. Are you more visual than verbal? Then a haiga, or illustrated haiku, is the ideal match. Finally, a renga is perfect as a group project or to create with friends, passing a poem around, adding line after line, and seeing what your group effort amounts to. Ross walks readers through the history and form of haiku, before laying out what sets each Japanese poetic form apart. Then it's time to turn to your notebook and start drafting some verse of your own!
Download or read book Senryu Poems of People written by J. C. Brown and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of Japanese senryu poetry--a lesser known cousin to haiku poetry. In 1765 Karai Senryu published a selection of tsukeku that reflected his personal taste and humor. This anthology, Yanagidaru, became widely popular and was followed by 22 more of the same title, also compiled by Senryu, and a further 144 volumes compiled by his successors to the tradition. The type of poems Karai chose eventually came to be known as senryu. They did not require inclusion of a seasonal word, as did haiku, which developed from the introductory portion of linked verse. Although senryu were at first written in only seventeen syllables(in lines of five, seven, and five syllables) or fourteen syllables(in lines of seven and seven), these rules became less strictly adhered to as time passed. The main difference between senryu and haiku is one of tone. The meaning and structure of a haiku can be brilliant, but I personally often find them conventionally serious and sentimental, offering few surprises. One has to be a near genius to write good haiku, but almost anyone can write reasonably good senryu; the form seems somehow to have escaped the structural restrictions that bind and, perhaps, limit haiku.
Download or read book A Haiku Path written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japanese Death Poems written by and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1998-04-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.
Download or read book Haiku in English written by Jim Kacian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of more than 800 poems that were originally written in English by over 200 poets from around the world. This collection tells the story for the first time of Anglophone haiku, charting its evolution over the last one hundred years and placing it within its historical and literary context.
Download or read book Morning Haiku written by Sonia Sanchez and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems of commemoration and loss for readers of all ages, from a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner. Sonia Sanchez's collection of haiku celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism. In her verses, we hear the sounds of Max Roach "exploding in the universe," the "blue hallelujahs" of the Philadelphia Murals, and the voice of Odetta "thundering out of the earth." Sanchez sings the praises of contemporaries whose poetic alchemy turns "words into gems": Maya Angelou, Richard Long, and Toni Morrison. And she pays homage to peace workers and civil rights activists from Rosa Parks and Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm to Brother Damu, founder of the National Black Environmental Justice Network. Often arranged in strings of twelve or more, the haiku flow one into the other in a steady song of commemoration. Sometimes deceptively simple, her lyrics hold a very powerful load of emotion and meaning. There are intimate verses here for family and friends, verses of profound loss and silence, of courage and resilience. Sanchez is innovative, composing haiku in new forms, including a section of moving two-line poems that reflect on the long wake of 9/11. In a brief and personal opening essay, the poet explains her deep appreciation for haiku as an art form. With its touching portraits and by turns uplifting and heartbreaking lyrics, Morning Haiku contains some of Sanchez's freshest, most poignant work.
Download or read book The Nick of Time written by Paul O. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Haiku Anthology written by Cor Van den Heuvel and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1986 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quietude written by Joanne Olivieri and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quiteude is a collection of poetry, haiku, senryu and lyrics with a focus on soulful reflections, nature and cultural diversity. Love, life and music mirror each word and thought.
