No other Asian poetic form has so intrigued and beguiled the English-speaking world as the Japanese haiku. Even before World War I such imagist poets as Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and John Gould Fletcher were experimenting with the form. At that time, Pound well described the haiku as "an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time." Indeed, it is the haiku's sense of immediacy and its precision that continue to appeal to poets and poetry lovers today. In recent decades there has b...
Mitsu Suzuki is the widow of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, the Zen monk who founded the San Francisco Zen Center and helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States. A White Tea Bowl is a selection of her poems, written after her return to Japan in 1993. These 100 haiku were chosen by editor Kazuaki Tanahashi and translated by Zen teacher Kate McCandless to celebrate Mitsu's 100th birthday on April 27, 2014. The introduction by Zen poet and priest Norman Fischer describes with loving detail a meetin...
Every day for the past six years, Tyler Knott Gregson has written a simple haiku about love, and posted it on his website. These Daily Haiku on Love have become the most popular feature among his loyal fan base - liked and shared widely on Tumblr and lnstagram, and even tattooed on readers' arms in Tyler's handwriting. The highly anticipated follow-up to Chasers of the Light, To Write All You Are collects these love haiku, some previously unpublished, accompanied by his signature photographs, wh...
Raffle Ticket Poetry. Animals (Raffle Ticket Poetry, #3)
by Thurston Jones