Essential Haiku

Essential Haiku
Author :
Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 356
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780880013512
ISBN-13 : 0880013516
Rating : 4/5 (516 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Essential Haiku by : Hass

Download or read book Essential Haiku written by Hass and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This definite collection brings together in fresh translations by an American poet the essential poems of the three greatest masters: Matsuo Basho in the seventeenth century; Yosa Buson in the eighteenth century; and Kobayashi Issa in the early nineteenth century. Robert Haas has written a lively and informed introduction, provided brief examples by each poet of their work in the halibun, or poetic prose form, and included informal notes to the poems. This is a useful and inspiring addition to The Essential Poets series.


Essential Haiku Related Books

Essential Haiku
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Hass
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-08-01 - Publisher: Harper Collins

GET EBOOK

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
The Essential Haiku
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Basho Matsuo
Categories: Haiku
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Hodder Christian Books

GET EBOOK

The Essential Haiku brings together Robert Hass's beautifully fresh translations of the three great masters of the Japanese haiku tradition: Matsuo Basho (1644-
Book of Haikus
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Jack Kerouac
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-01 - Publisher: Penguin

GET EBOOK

Highlighting a lesser-known aspect of one of America's most influential authors, this new collection displays Jack Kerouac's interest in and mastery of haiku. E
Haiku
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Stephen Addiss
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-13 - Publisher: Shambhala Publications

GET EBOOK

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- an
The Penguin Book of Haiku
Language: en
Pages: 544
Authors:
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-31 - Publisher: Penguin UK

GET EBOOK

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 th