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Author : Michael Moore
Release : 1996
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis Contemporary View of Haiku by : Michael Moore
Download or read book Contemporary View of Haiku written by Michael Moore. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiku by Michael Moore in both English and Spanish.
Author : Bruce Ross
Release : 2011-12-27
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 193/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Haiku Moment by : Bruce Ross
Download or read book Haiku Moment written by Bruce Ross. This book was released on 2011-12-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu. This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses. Too impetuous to be satisfied as a subsidiary wife, this beautiful (and unnamed) noblewoman of the Heian dynasty protests the marriage system of her time in one of Japanese literature's earliest attempts to portray difficult elements of the predominant social hierarchy. A classic work of early Japanese prose, The Gossamer Years is an important example of the development of Heian literature, which, at its best, represents an extraordinary flowering of realistic expression, an attempt, unique for its age, to treat the human condition with frankness and honesty. A timeless and intimate glimpse into the culture of ancient Japan, this translation by Edward Seidensticker paints a revealing picture of married life in the Heian period.
Author : Yoshinobu Hakutani
Release : 2019
Genre : Buddhism in literature
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Book Rating : 273/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Jack Kerouac and the Traditions of Classic and Modern Haiku by : Yoshinobu Hakutani
Download or read book Jack Kerouac and the Traditions of Classic and Modern Haiku written by Yoshinobu Hakutani. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Kerouac and the Traditions of Classic and Modern Haiku is a reading of the haiku collected in Jack Kerouac's Book of Haikus, edited by Regina Weinreich, (2003), one of the two largest collections of English haiku. "Above all," Kerouac wrote in his journal, "a Haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and makes a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi Pastorella." Before trying his hand at composing haiku, Kerouac learned, as did Wright, the theory and technique of haiku from R. H. Blyth, the most influential haiku scholar and critic. Most of Kerouac's haiku reflect eastern philosophies―Confucianism, Buddhist ontology, and Zen―, as do classic haiku. A son of devout French Canadian Catholic parents, the young Kerouac was impressed with Christian doctrine, but later was inspired by Buddhism. In his haiku Kerouc conflates Christian doctrine of mercy with that of Buddhism. Classic haiku taught Kerouac that not only must human beings treat their fellow human beings with respect and compassion, but they must also treat nonhuman beings such as animals, insects, plants, and flowers as their equals. Many of Kerouac's haiku can be read as modern haiku for the technique of beat poetics he applied. All in all, Kerouac's haiku express the worldview that human beings are not at the center of the universe.
Author : Adam L. Kern
Release : 2018-05-31
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 257/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of Haiku by : Adam L. Kern
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Haiku written by Adam L. Kern. This book was released on 2018-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.
Author : David M. Bader
Release : 2005
Genre : Haiku, American
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Book Rating : 423/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis One Hundred Great Books in Haiku by : David M. Bader
Download or read book One Hundred Great Books in Haiku written by David M. Bader. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth century, Zen monks in Japan developed the haiku, an unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines. Now, in One Hundred Great Books in Haiku, David Bader has applied this ancient poetic form to the classics. From Homer to Milton to Dostyevsky, the great books are finally within reach of even the shortest attention spans!
