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Book A Haiku Perspective 2016

    Book Details:
  • Author : Annette Rochelle Aben
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-03-19
  • ISBN : 9781530029839
  • Pages : 44 pages

Download or read book A Haiku Perspective 2016 written by Annette Rochelle Aben and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-19 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome! Prepare to be entertained, enchanted and encouraged to tell YOUR stories using an ancient Japanese technique of writing poetry. To tell a story with seventeen syllables, we create haiku. Each poem in A Haiku Perspective 2016, tells a story in its own unique way. A Haiku Perspective 2016 is a modern day, American poet's way of celebrating life through her love of writing, haiku!

Book A Haiku Perspective 2017

    Book Details:
  • Author : Annette Rochelle Aben
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-03-30
  • ISBN : 9781519212627
  • Pages : 74 pages

Download or read book A Haiku Perspective 2017 written by Annette Rochelle Aben and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is poetic. We see the world through the eyes of our emotions which is where poetry originates. Haiku is a form of poetry that has us put those emotions into seventeen syllables. Each of the haiku in this book is the poetic vision of life as experienced by the author.

Book A Tree Frog s Eyes

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  • Author : David E Navarro
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-06
  • ISBN : 9781714978458
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book A Tree Frog s Eyes written by David E Navarro and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive collection of 194 haiku that brings together a plethora of diverse natural, cultural, and geographical influences from Navarro's life as a wandering poet-philosopher and minister. Navarro draws on a lifetime of learning haiku, beginning at nineteen years old when he discovered its origins in the heart of ancient Chinese poetry (Sensai and Hõ Un); through the quintessential influences of the four great Japanese hokku/haiku masters, Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki-but especially the personal pure-land nature haiku of Issa; to the classic core functional elements of kire (the cut or shift) and kigo (seasonal indication), which infuse haiku with the essential elements of zoka, ma, tathata, and toriawase, which he explains in an extensive Foreword describing the nature and essence of good haiku. These elements are the core of Navarro's haiku, but he's also experimented with many modern offshoots and adaptations. So the reader will find everything from traditional English language 5-7-5 haiku, to more modern renditions with fewer syllables, some gendai haiku, semantic disjunctions, and even some senryu. While the underlying essence of his haiku is influenced and inspired by Chinese and Japanese poetry, Navarro's haiku are thoroughly steeped in modern American nature, culture, geography, and tradition. He brings haiku to life in a way that is relatable and accessible to the modern reader while faithfully maintaining the sharp visual nature of the form.

Book Walden by Haiku

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  • Author : Ian Marshall
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2012-01-01
  • ISBN : 0820340650
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Walden by Haiku written by Ian Marshall and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intriguing literary experiment, Ian Marshall presents a collection of nearly three hundred haiku that he extracted from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and documents the underlying similarities between Thoreau's prose and the art of haiku. Although Thoreau would never have encountered the Japanese haiku tradition, the way in which the most important ideas in Walden find expression in the most haikulike language suggests that Thoreau at Walden Pond and the haiku master Basho at his "old pond" might have drunk at the same well. Walden and the tradition of haiku share an aesthetic that embodies ideas in natural images, dissolves boundaries between self and world, emphasizes simplicity, and honors both solitude and humble, familiar objects. Marshall examines each of these aesthetic principles and offers a relevant collection of "found" haiku. In the second part of the book, he explains his process of finding the haiku in the text, breaking down each chapter of Walden to highlight the imagery and poetic language embedded in the most powerful passages. Marshall's exploration not only provides a fresh perspective on haiku, but also sheds new light on Thoreau's much-studied text and lays the foundation for a clearer understanding of the aesthetics of American nature writing.

Book A Half Moon Shining

Download or read book A Half Moon Shining written by Dwight L. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sexy Haiku

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  • Author : Nick Brooks
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9781910449561
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Sexy Haiku written by Nick Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These engaging and accessible haiku are in turns romantic, funny, erotic, and playful. A woman asks her new lover:Why don't you write about me'legs parted wry smile betweendark curls maybe I will.What follows is a powerful, explicit and vivid collection that follows the peaks and troughs of one man's relationships.Whether read alone or shared with the one you love, this is a collection wrought with sexual tension that will leave you gasping.

Book International Perspectives on Creative Writing in Second Language Education

Download or read book International Perspectives on Creative Writing in Second Language Education written by Bee Chamcharatsri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the instructional use of creative writing in secondary and post-secondary contexts to enhance students’ language proficiency and expression in English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL). Offering a diverse range of perspectives from scholars and practitioners involved in English language teaching (ELT) globally, International Perspectives on Creative Writing in Second Language Education tackles foundational questions around why fiction and creative writing have been traditionally omitted from ESL and EFL curricula. By drawing on empirical research and first-hand experience, contributors showcase a range of creative genres including autobiography, scriptwriting, poetry, and e-Portfolios, and provide new insight into the benefits of second language creative writing for learners’ language proficiency, emotional expression, and identity development. The volume makes a unique contribution to the field of second language writing by highlighting the breadth of second language users throughout the world, and foregrounding links between identity, learning, and ESL/EFL writing. This insightful volume will be of particular interest to postgraduate students, researchers, and academics in the fields of ESL/EFL learning, composition studies, and second language acquisition (SLA). Those with a focus on the use of creative writing in classrooms more broadly, will also find the book of interest.

Book International Haiku in Global Perspective

Download or read book International Haiku in Global Perspective written by Richard Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Poems of Consciousness

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  • Author : Richard L. Gilbert
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008-03-01
  • ISBN : 9781893959729
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book Poems of Consciousness written by Richard L. Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Japanese Death Poems

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
  • Release : 1998-04-15
  • ISBN : 146291649X
  • Pages : 368 pages

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.

Book Haiku History

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  • Author : H. W. Brands
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2020-05-04
  • ISBN : 1477320326
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Haiku History written by H. W. Brands and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past nine years, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has been tweeting the history of the United States. But this has been no ordinary version of the American tale. Instead, Brands gives his 5,000-plus followers a regular dose of history and poetry combined: his tweets are in the form of haikus. Haiku History presents a selection of these smart, shrewd, and always informative short poems. “Shivers and specters / Flit over hearts in Salem / And so nineteen hang” describes the Salem Witch Trials, and “In angry war paint / Men board the British tea ships / And toss the cargo” depicts the Boston Tea Party. “Then an anarchist / Makes one of the war heroes / The next president” recalls the assassination of William McKinley and the ascension of Teddy Roosevelt to the presidency, while “Second invasion: / Iraq, where Saddam is still / In troubling control” returns us to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. As he travels from the thirteen colonies to the 2016 election, Brands brings to life the wars, economic crises, social policies, and other events that have shaped our nation. A history book like no other, Haiku History injects both fun and poetry into the story of America—three lines at a time.

Book The Sublimity of Document

Download or read book The Sublimity of Document written by Scott MacDonald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama is a collection of in-depth, substantive interviews with moving-image artists working "avant-doc, that is, making films that explore the territory between documentary and experimental cinema. The book uses the early history of the museum habitat diorama of animal life, specifically the Hall of African Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, as a way of rethinking both early and modern cinema document--and especially those recent filmmakers and films that are devoted to providing viewers with panoramic documentations of places and events that otherwise they might never have opportunities to experience in person. This international collection of 27 interviews follows on MacDonald's earlier Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema (Oxford, 2015). The interviews, organized panoramically within the collection, are dense with information and insight, and readable by specialists and non-specialists alike. In most instances, these are the most in-depth and expansive-sometimes the first-interviews with these filmmakers. Together, these interviews offer an engaging panorama of the recent history and geography of cinema devoted to documenting the world around us, as well as an in-depth look at the challenges and accomplishments of filmmakers willing to go anywhere on the planet (or on the internet!) to document what they believe we need to see. MacDonald's general introduction provides an overall context for the collection, which includes interviews with Ron Fricke, Gustav Deutsch, Laura Poitras, Fred Wiseman, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Bill Morrison, Brett Story, Abbas Kiarostami, Lois Patiño, Dominic Gagnon, Erin Espelie, Yance Ford, Janet Biggs, Carlos Adriano, Craig Johnson, Ben Russell, Betzy Bromberg, James Benning, Maxim Pozdorovkin, along with several veterans of Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab (and with the executive directors of the distributor, Documentary Educational Resources, which has served the field of independent documentary for nearly fifty years)--each interview is introduced with MacDonald's overview of the interviewee's life and work. The book includes filmographies and selected bibliographies for all the filmmakers.

Book Futuristic and Linguistic Perspectives on Teaching Writing to Second Language Students

Download or read book Futuristic and Linguistic Perspectives on Teaching Writing to Second Language Students written by Hanc?-Azizoglu, Eda Ba?ak and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aptitude to write well is increasingly becoming a vital element that students need to succeed in college and their future careers. Students must be equipped with competent writing skills as colleges and jobs base the acceptance of students and workers on the quality of their writing. This situation captures the complexity of the fact that writing represents higher intellectual skills and leads to a higher rate of selection. Therefore, it is imperative that best strategies for teaching writing speakers of other languages is imparted to provide insights to teachers who can better prepare their students for future accomplishments. Futuristic and Linguistic Perspectives on Teaching Writing to Second Language Students examines the theoretical and practical implications that should be put in place for second language writers and offers critical futuristic and linguistic perspectives on teaching writing to speakers of other languages. Highlighting such topics as EFL, ESL, composition, digital storytelling, and forming identity, this book is ideal for second language teachers and writing instructors, as well as academicians, professionals, researchers, and students working in the field of language and linguistics.

Book Haiku East and West

Download or read book Haiku East and West written by Yoriko Yamada-Bochynek and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Welcome to FOB Haiku

    Book Details:
  • Author : Randy Brown
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-11-13
  • ISBN : 9780996931700
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book Welcome to FOB Haiku written by Randy Brown and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sherpatude no. 26: 'Humor is a combat multiplier ...' Has your war become workaday? Does life on the Forward Operating Base (FOB) now seem commonplace? Armed with deadpan snark and poker-faced patriotism -- and rooted in the coffee-black soil and plain-spoken voice of the American Midwest -- journalist-turned-poet Randy Brown reveals behind-the-scenes stories of U.S. soldier-citizenship. From Boot Camp to Bagram, Afghanistan. And back home again." --

Book Haiku Diary 2016

    Book Details:
  • Author : Howard Colyer
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2017-04-28
  • ISBN : 0244604045
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Haiku Diary 2016 written by Howard Colyer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diary in haiku - life at a rate of seventeen syllables a day.

Book Death Coming Up the Hill

Download or read book Death Coming Up the Hill written by Chris Crowe and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Ashe keeps a weekly record of historical and personal events in 1968, the year he turns seventeen, including the escalating war in Vietnam, assassinations, rampant racism, and rioting; his first girlfriend, his parents' separation, and a longed-for sister.