Haiku: One Breath Poetry

By Naomi Beth Wakan

Book Overview

"Haiku should be written as swiftly as a woodcutter fells a tree or a swordsman leaps at a dangerous enemy." Basho, the father of haiku poetry, was of samurai stock himself and so wrote these words... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893468460
• ISBN13: 9780893468460
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Length: 71 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent for writers, readers of haiku

Intended for young people, this book is fascinating and informative for both students and adults. Wakan gives historical and cultural background about haiku, and explains things to the reader that other writers about haiku take for granted, and sometimes neglect. She explains traditional rules and devices--and their exceptions--one at a time, in an interesting, progressive format. I use Haiku: One Breath Poetry in my teaching, and for my own writing development.