Werewolf Haiku
Werewolf Haiku

Author: Ryan Mecum

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-08-10

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 144031120X

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Dear haiku journal, I think I killed some people. That was no dog bite. This journal contains the poetic musings of a mailman who, after being bitten by what he thinks is a dog, discovers that he is actually now a werewolf. Wreaking havoc wherever he goes, he details his new life and transformations in the 5-7-5 syllable structure of haiku—his poetry of choice. Follow along as our werewolf poet slowly turns from a mostly normal man into the hairy beast that he cannot keep trapped inside. And watch out for carnage when he changes and becomes hungry. No toenail, no entrail, no pigtail will be left behind. And talk about wreaking havoc: His newfound claws and teeth have sent his clothing budget through the roof! He is in love with a woman on his route, but he has never had the courage to tell her. As he fights against his urges during each full moon, he discovers that succumbing to his primal instincts will not only bag him a good meal—it just might help him in his quest for love…Or maybe not.

Haiku Enlightenment
Haiku Enlightenment

Author: Gabriel Rosenstock

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2009-03-26

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 1443806900

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A renowned poet shares his experience of haiku and its potential to surprise us again and again into a sudden awakening and thus to a deeper sense of what it is to be truly alive. His remarkably refreshing insights have delighted confreres around the world.

I Haiku You
I Haiku You

Author: Betsy E. Snyder

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 0375867503

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A collection of haikus follows a Valentine's Day theme and combine an introduction to the poetic form with cartoon-style illustrations.

Haiku in English
Haiku in English

Author: Jim Kacian

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2013-08-26

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 0393239470

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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.

No Condition Is Permanent
No Condition Is Permanent

Author: Holger G. Ehling

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9789042014862

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Includes articles, interviews, creative writing, and book reviews.

The Penguin Book of Haiku
The Penguin Book of Haiku

Author: Adam L. Kern

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 0141395257

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'A revelation' Sunday Times, Books of the Year 2018 The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern. Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its brevity, usually running three lines long in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about reality, in fact the haiku is much more: it can be erotic, funny, crude and mischievous. Presenting over a thousand exemplars in vivid and engaging translations, this anthology offers an illuminating introduction to this widely celebrated, if misunderstood, art form. Adam L. Kern's new translations are accompanied here by the original Japanese and short commentaries on the poems, as well as an introduction and illustrations from the period.

Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku
Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku

Author: Ce Rosenow

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-07-26

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 1793653186

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Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions identifies Moore as a primary figure in the American Haiku Movement as well as a significant contributor to the field of African American haiku. Ce Rosenow analyzes the ways in which Moore combines haiku with a variety of other traditions: African American storytelling, jazz poetry, ekphrasis, and elegies. An examination of Moore’s haibun, a Japanese form combining prose and haiku, reveals the further development of the African American aesthetic created in his individual poems. Ultimately, the author argues that Moore’s decades-long engagement with haiku and his prolific publication history solidify haiku as an established form in African American poetry.

Wabi Sabi Haiku
Wabi Sabi Haiku

Author: Jamie Winters

Publisher:

Published: 2018-11-17

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9781731466518

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My oldest friend--Book with ruffled pagesSoft as velvetFavorite chairStill shaped in an echoOf GrandpaThreadbare brown carpetHolds years of storiesOf rushing aboutThis is Wabi Sabi. How many of us spend our days rushing around, obeying schedules, worrying about what others think about us? Meanwhile, we're missing the beauty in everything around us. A dark night of stars. A shiny, bright apple. The season's first robin. Wabi Sabi is the concept that there's no such thing as "more beautiful" or "less beautiful." It's about finding beauty in the plain and ordinary. It's about seeing that nothing in life is permanent. This collection is a year's worth of searching for and recording scraps of Wabi Sabi. Arranged by season, these 175 haiku capture brief moments of frozen time showing the beauty all around us in even the most mundane of tasks. This collection is for anyone who wants to have their eyes reopened to the everyday beauty all around them.

The Routledge Global Haiku Reader
The Routledge Global Haiku Reader

Author: James Shea

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-06-30

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1000886573

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The Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts. Offering an extensive critical perspective, this volume provides leading essays by poets and scholars who explore haiku’s various global developments, demonstrating the form’s complex and sometimes contradictory manifestations from the twentieth century to the present. The sixteen chapters are carefully organized into categories that reflect the salient areas of practice and study: Haiku in Transit, Haiku and Social Consciousness, Haiku and Experimentation, and The Future of Global Haiku. An insightful introduction surveys haiku’s influence beyond Japan and frames the collection historically and culturally, questioning commonly held assumptions about haiku and laying the groundwork for new ways of seeing the form. Haiku’s elusiveness, its resistance to definition, is partly what keeps it so relevant today, and this book traces the many ways in which this global verse form has evolved. The Routledge Global Haiku Reader ushers haiku into the twenty-first century in a critically minded and historically informed manner for a new generation of readers and writers and will appeal to students and researchers in Asian studies, literary studies, comparative literature, creative writing, and cultural studies

The Spring of My Life
The Spring of My Life

Author: Kobayashi Issa

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 1997-10-15

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0834828286

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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.