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Essential Haiku Volume 20

Essential Haiku Volume 20

Hass

Paperback

Series: Essential Haiku, Book 20

Poetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0880013516
ISBN13: 9780880013512
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Aug 1 1995
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.25 Depth: 7.58
Language: English

In classical haiku, one of the most constrained poetic forms, monkeys and herons and trees and the moon can stand in for the entire world. The best of these tiny poems can be at once specific and timeless, questioning and assertive, funny and sad. - Sarah Manguso, The Week

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 1950's.

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