Westerners have long been fascinated by haiku, the traditional Japanese verse form composed of seventeen syllables. These miniature masterpieces can express a dramatic scene or philosophical idea in a single line of verse. In this collection, haiku poet Yuzuru Miura has selected and translated poems by past masters like Basho and Buson, as well as haiku by contemporary poets. Fireflies, pheasants, a summer shower, winter snow, camellias - all the favorite haiku subjects are included among the on...
The first book to tackle office life with poetry, "Office Haiku" consists of witty haiku divided into chapters including "Monday Morning Suck," "Paper Cuts" Office Equiptment, and Other Maladies, "Existential Malaise," "Departmental Meetings," and "Anywhere but Here." Informed by a lifetime of work, James Rogauskas's haiku speak for themselves (and everyone else): Sitting at my desk; Proudly as any serf; On his scrap of dirt; "This has to go out"?; And I was waiting for desk; Fairies to type it....
Open Your Eyes - A Collection of Songs, Poetry and Experimental Haiku-like Verse
by William C Thwing
A collection of classical Japanese haiku selected and translated by one of America's premier poet-translators. Haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world due to its brevity, emotion, and astounding ability to capture the unique experience of a single moment. This collection, beautifully translated by Sam Hamill, compiles over two hundred haiku from classic Japanese literature written by masters of the genre like Bashō, Buson, and Issa. Based on images from...
This chapbook of minimalist poetry shines a spotlight on the reality of modern interpersonal communication. A delicacy and subtlety unknown to Richard Brautigan permeates this work; a clean starkness visited only by Mishima; a clarity possessed only by the great haiku poets ~ this is conversations. The first review: In his latest literary effort, conversations, Roy Anthony Shabla becomes the proverbial "fly on the wall". From this vantage point, he observes and light-heartedly describes the a...
Thinking Design Through Literature (Routledge Research in Design Studies)
by Susan Yelavich
This book deploys literature to explore the social lives of objects and places. The first book of its kind, it embraces things as diverse as escalators, coins, skyscrapers, pottery, radios, and robots, and encompasses places as various as home, country, cities, streets, and parks. Here, fiction, poetry, and literary non-fiction are mined for stories of design, which are paired with images of contemporary architecture and design. Through the work of authors such as César Aires, Nicholson Baker, L...
