On Haiku

by Hiroaki Sato

Jeffrey Yang

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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, and loved for its simplicity and compression, as well as for 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, first-grade students across the country still learn to write them. But what really is a haiku? Where does the form come from? Who were the Japanese poets who originated...Read more
  • ISBN10 0811227421
  • ISBN13 9780811227421
  • Publish Date 1 October 2018
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Language English