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The Haiku Handbook -25th Anniversary Edition

ISBN-13: 9781568365404

Author(s): William J Higginson

Subjects: CSC, DCF

Publisher: Kodansha Europe Head Office

Publisher Imprint: Kodansha USA

Publication Date: 28-10-2013

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£19.99
The Haiku Handbook -25th Anniversary Edition

About the book

The Haiku Handbook is the first book to give readers everything they need to begin appreciating, writing, or teaching haiku. In this groundbreaking and now-classic volume, the authors present haiku poets writing in English, Spanish, French, German, and five other languages on an equal footing with Japanese poets. Not only are the four great Japanese masters of the haiku represented (Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki) but also major Western authors not commonly known to have written poetry in this form, including Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac and Richard Wright. With a