Cage of Fireflies: Modern Japanese Haiku

by Lucien Stryk

Haiku at its best is an art in which the poet takes a natural, most ordinary event, and without fuss, ornament or inflated words makes of it a rare moment -- sparely rendered, crystallized into a microcosm which reveals transcendent unity. Small wonder haiku has a growing audience throughout the world.

In all arts -- music, painting, dance, theatre -- change has come with that startling moment of dissatisfaction when the artist upends complacency,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804009767
• ISBN13: 9780804009768
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"