The Time of Strangeness Haiku - Pandemic Inspired to Keep Someone Sane
by Craig Allen Nelson
Part of the Eco-Poetry series, "The 50 States of Haiku," is a compilations fo climate haikus featuring all 50 states evoking beautiful imagery and sensations of nature juxtaposed, with an additional haiku representing each state amdi the climate crisis.
Once confined to a literary elite in Japan, haiku are now written all over the world by poets who find their combination of brevity, technical discipline and expressive content irresistible. This collection brings together hundreds of poems by Japanese writers from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, with modern examples from Europe and America. In addition, there is a selection of poems influenced by haiku, and a section devoted to haiku-like passages from traditional English poets. The boo...
Enjoy this hilarious collection of over 200 haikus that sum up the complex, confusing and often compounding character of the British people'Will make everybody laugh' DOLLY ALDERTON ON THE HIGH LOW_______Enjoy this hilarious collection of over 200 haikus that sum up the complex, confusing and often compounding character of the British people. The Sellotape endUnlocatable it seemsChristmas is cancelledHow many gin tinsIs decreed appropriate For this train journey? The sound of a splashMy Hobnob f...
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 b...
