Haiku

2009-10-13 Poetry

Author : Stephen Addiss
Release : 2009-10-13
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 342/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Haiku written by Stephen Addiss. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetry collection honoring the haiku—complete with poet biographies, translator commentary, and Japanese artwork This celebration of what is perhaps the most influential of all poetic forms takes haiku back to its Japanese roots. Beginning with poems by the seventeenth and eighteenth-century masters Basho, Busson, and Issa, the anthology goes all the way up to the late twentieth century to provide a survey of haiku through the centuries, in all its minimalist glory. The translators have balanced faithfulness to the Japanese with an appreciation of the unique spirit of each poem to create English versions that evoke the joy and wonder of the originals with the same astonishing economy of language. An introduction by the translators and short biographies of the poets are included. Reproductions of woodblock prints and paintings accompany the poems.

A Haiku Garden

1996 Haiku

Author : Stephen Addiss
Release : 1996
Genre : Haiku
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Download or read book A Haiku Garden written by Stephen Addiss. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juxtaposing haiku and prints on the theme of flowers and trees through the four seasons, this book recreates a mediative walk through a garden over the course of a year. Haiku by poets such as Basho and Buson are included, as well as reproductions of prints by Kitagawa Utamaro, and Hanabusa Itcho.

The Art of Haiku

2022-11-29 Poetry

Author : Stephen Addiss
Release : 2022-11-29
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 217/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Art of Haiku written by Stephen Addiss. This book was released on 2022-11-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past hundred years, haiku has gone far beyond its Japanese origins to become a worldwide phenomenon—with the classic poetic form growing and evolving as it has adapted to the needs of the whole range of languages and cultures that have embraced it. This proliferation of the joy of haiku is cause for celebration—but it can also compel us to go back to the beginning: to look at haiku’s development during the centuries before it was known outside Japan. This in-depth study of haiku history begins with the great early masters of the form—like Basho, Buson, and Issa—and goes all the way to twentieth-century greats, like Santoka. It also focuses on an important aspect of traditional haiku that is less known in the West: haiku art. All the great haiku masters created paintings (called haiga) or calligraphy in connection with their poems, and the words and images were intended to be enjoyed together, enhancing each other, and each adding its own dimension to the reader’s and viewer’s understanding. Here one of the leading haiku scholars of the West takes us on a tour of haiku poetry’s evolution, providing along the way a wealth of examples of the poetry and the art inspired by it.

Haiku Form

1989-12-15 Poetry

Author : Joan Giroux
Release : 1989-12-15
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 296/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Haiku Form written by Joan Giroux. This book was released on 1989-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic book is a collection and analysis of Japanese haiku in the English language. The Haiku is a brief poetic form expressing a moment of insight. No foreign form since the sonnet has so fascinated and challenged the poets of the English-speaking world. Yet no scholar or critic, until now, has undertaken a definitive study of the problems of writing haiku in English. This book, the first of its kind, examines English language haiku in the light of Japanese form. Author Joan Giroux explicates the meaning and history of the Japanese haiku, its cultural background the creative process which gives it birth and the technical devices developed by Japanese poets over the centuries. Examples by classic and contemporary poets, including Basho and Buson, Shiki and Hastutaro, are given Romanized Japanese and in English translation. Poems, in English, from early efforts by Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens to work of contemporaries like James Hackett, are discussed and evaluated. Wherever possible, comparisons are made, contrast indicated and suggestions given, with a rare sensitivity to the poetic possibilities of both languages and keen appreciation of the unique qualities of both cultures.

Haiku

2009-05-27 Body, Mind & Spirit

Author : Gabriel Rosenstock
Release : 2009-05-27
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Rating : 250/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Haiku written by Gabriel Rosenstock. This book was released on 2009-05-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Haiku, the Gentle Art of Disappearing, a renowned Irish poet shows us how haiku may be used as a powerful tool for spiritual interpenetration. This implies that we divest ourselves of the ever-chattering mind, shed the voracious ego and enjoy momentary glimpses of unity with natural phenomena. In the companion volume, Haiku Enlightenment, he further explores these thoroughly delightful experiences and invites us to disappear! Haiku is dynamically focussed on the present, from season to season, from day to day, from hour to hour, from second to second. But how illusory, how fleeting is that present moment? How caught up is it with the past, with the future? Can we stop its flow? Are there more ways than one of experiencing its essence? If we experience a moment intensely enough, might we disappear? Surprises await those readers who may have considered haiku to be nothing more than an innocuous three-line poem. 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.

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