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On Haiku (Paperback)
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On Haiku (Paperback)
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Who doesn't love haiku? It is not only America's most popular
cultural import from Japan but also our most popular poetic form:
instantly recognizable, more mobile than a sonnet, loved for its
simplicity and compression, as well as its ease of composition.
Haiku is an ancient literary form seemingly made for the
Twittersphere-Jack Kerouac and Langston Hughes wrote them, Ezra
Pound and the Imagists were inspired by them, Hallmark's made
millions off them, first-grade students across the country still
learn to write them. But what really is a haiku? Where does the
form originate? Who were the original Japanese poets who wrote
them? And how has their work been translated into English over the
years? The haiku form comes down to us today as a cliche: a
three-line poem of 5-7-5 syllables. And yet its story is actually
much more colorful and multifaceted. And of course to write a good
one can be as difficult as writing a Homeric epic-or it can
materialize in an instant of epic inspiration. In On Haiku, Hiroaki
Sato explores the many styles and genres of haiku on both sides of
the Pacific, from the classical haiku of Basho, Issa, and Zen
monks, to modern haiku about swimsuits and atomic bombs, to the
haiku of famous American writers such as J. D. Salinger and Allen
Ginsburg. As if conversing over beers in your favorite pub, Sato
explains everything you wanted to know about the haiku in this
endearing and pleasurable book, destined to be a classic in the
field.
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