{"title":"Poetry Haiku","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"haiku-illustrated-classic-japanese-short-poems-9781838860431","title":"Haiku Illustrated: Classic Japanese Short Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaiku – seventeen-syllable poems that evoke worlds despite their brevity – have captivated Japanese readers since the seventeenth century. Today the form is practiced worldwide and has become established as part of our common global heritage. This beautiful traditionally hand-bound volume presents new English translations of classic poems by the four great masters of Japanese haiku – Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa, and Masaoka Shiki – accompanied by both the original Japanese and a phonetic transcription, and a photograph or artwork highlighting or echoing the poem's theme. With a timeless design, \u003ci\u003eHaiku Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e is an expert introduction and celebration of one of the most beautiful and accessible forms of poetry in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBashō \u003cbr\u003eThe cut end of \u003cbr\u003eAfter darkness falls \u003cbr\u003eA crow at rest \u003cbr\u003eThe crane’s legs \u003cbr\u003eMist and Drizzle \u003cbr\u003eFragrant orchid \u003cbr\u003eThe oak tree \u003cbr\u003eAn old pond \u003cbr\u003eWater jar cracks \u003cbr\u003eWinter sun \u003cbr\u003eThese fireflies \u003cbr\u003eSuch stillness \u003cbr\u003eIn this bleak rain \u003cbr\u003eBeneath the tree \u003cbr\u003eOf its approaching death \u003cbr\u003eThose who see lightning \u003cbr\u003eEven loathsome crows \u003cbr\u003eEarly autumn \u003cbr\u003eA whiff of plum blossoms \u003cbr\u003eRainy season \u003cbr\u003eA cool wall \u003cbr\u003eThis road \u003cbr\u003eTaken ill while travelling\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuson \u003cbr\u003eSuch joy in crossing \u003cbr\u003eThe spring sea \u003cbr\u003eCamphor roots \u003cbr\u003eAn old well \u003cbr\u003eA spring shower \u003cbr\u003eFuji alone \u003cbr\u003eUnder the mosquito net \u003cbr\u003eA short summer night \u003cbr\u003eLate for the ferry \u003cbr\u003eFalling into the gloom \u003cbr\u003eIn the old pond \u003cbr\u003eA thunderbolt and \u003cbr\u003eA swing of the axe \u003cbr\u003eIn the quiet lull \u003cbr\u003eSpring rains \u003cbr\u003eThe keen chill \u003cbr\u003eMustard blossoms \u003cbr\u003eSuch joy in watching \u003cbr\u003eAll along these ancient roads \u003cbr\u003eThe one I yearn to meet \u003cbr\u003eFalling blossoms \u003cbr\u003eGentle spring rain \u003cbr\u003eAll that remains\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIssa \u003cbr\u003eSpilling from the sleeves \u003cbr\u003eClinging \u003cbr\u003eDiminished with age \u003cbr\u003eThree coins \u003cbr\u003eMountain temple \u003cbr\u003eSnowfall outside \u003cbr\u003eNo breeze but from Spring arrives \u003cbr\u003eThe winter fly I spared Is this, then \u003cbr\u003eSo composed \u003cbr\u003eSleeping spread-eagled \u003cbr\u003eMelting snows \u003cbr\u003eScrawny frogs \u003cbr\u003eThe hum of mosquitoes \u003cbr\u003eCome \u003cbr\u003ePassing through \u003cbr\u003eSpiders in the corners \u003cbr\u003eGathering chestnuts \u003cbr\u003eNo one to scold \u003cbr\u003eMy home village \u003cbr\u003eNo sleep for me\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShiki \u003cbr\u003eA pruned branch \u003cbr\u003eSo desperately \u003cbr\u003eHydrangeas \u003cbr\u003eCooling moon \u003cbr\u003eCome back alive \u003cbr\u003eSwept up by the wind \u003cbr\u003eThe train passes \u003cbr\u003eAfter killing a spider \u003cbr\u003eAt the public bath \u003cbr\u003eIn the next room, too \u003cbr\u003eHouse-bound in winter \u003cbr\u003eA summer insect \u003cbr\u003eSettled on \u003cbr\u003eThe old garden \u003cbr\u003eOver the rails \u003cbr\u003eKnife by the bed \u003cbr\u003eSong of the cicada \u003cbr\u003eA coffin on the \u003cbr\u003eOn every island \u003cbr\u003eSnapped in a \u003cbr\u003eI untied the wrapping cloth \u003cbr\u003eA painting of snow \u003cbr\u003eHaving painted a peony\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amber Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48868612637015,"sku":"9781838860431","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781838860431.jpg?v=1722288871"},{"product_id":"a-beginners-guide-to-japanese-haiku-major-works-by-japans-best-loved-poets-from-basho-and-issa-to-ryokan-and-santoka-with-works-by-six-women-poets-free-online-audio-9784805316870","title":"A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Haiku: Major Works","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn old pond;\u003cbr\u003ea frog jumps in:\u003cbr\u003ethe sound of water\u003cbr\u003e — \u003cb\u003eBasho\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This comprehensive introduction to Japan's best-loved haiku poets is the perfect book for anyone wanting to learn about haiku. Compiled and with commentary by renowned author and translator William Scott Wilson, the book features 26 poets and 550 haiku, exquisitely translated. Wilson takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the works of the major Japanese poets from the fifteenth century up to the present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poets include Basho, Shiki, Buson and Issa (the \"Great Four\") along with other well-known practitioners of the genre such as Ryokan, Kikaku and Chora. Wilson gives his own brand-new renditions of poems that are already known as classics, and also shares with us the delightful work of a number of poets who are rarely found in English translation, such as six female poets including Chiyojo and Hisajo, as well as novelist Natsume Soseki, who, unbeknown to many, also wrote haiku.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is divided into sections, each starting with a 2-4 page introduction to each poet, followed by a selection of that poet's haiku, in Japanese script and English translation. 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Say more with fewer words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis practical guide by poet and teacher Bruce Ross shows you how to capture a fleeting moment, like painting a picture with words, and how to give voice to your innermost thoughts, feelings, and observations. You don't have to be a practiced poet or writer to write your own haiku, and this book shows you how.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this book, aspiring poets will find:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003e Accessible, easy-to-replicate examples and writing prompts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003e A foreword that looks at the state of haiku today as the form continues to expand worldwide\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003e An introduction to related Japanese haiku forms such as tanka, haiga, renga, haibun, and senryu\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003e A listing of international journals and online resources\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDo you want to tell a story? Give haibun a try. Maybe you want to express a fleeting feeling? A tanka is the perfect vehicle. Are you more visual than verbal? 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Then it's time to turn to your notebook and start drafting some verse of your own!\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Tuttle Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48869455135063,"sku":"9784805316887","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9784805316887.jpg?v=1722292853"},{"product_id":"off-the-beaten-track-a-year-in-haiku-9781911052012","title":"Off the Beaten Track: A Year in Haiku","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Boatwhistle Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48888528044375,"sku":"9781911052012","price":11.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781911052012.jpg?v=1722549840"},{"product_id":"the-poetics-of-a-plague-a-haiku-diary-9781925950366","title":"The Poetics of a Plague: A Haiku Diary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat was it like to live in Melbourne during the 2020-2021 lockdowns? 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And as the world is in the grip of COVID madness, sanity is found in poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Light in a dull time Best start to a better day Aptly delightful\".   Peter Doherty, medical scientist \u0026amp; Nobel Prize winner","brand":"Spinifex Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48888721965399,"sku":"9781925950366","price":16.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781925950366.jpg?v=1722550812"},{"product_id":"the-routledge-global-haiku-reader-9781032272658","title":"The Routledge Global Haiku Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Global Haiku Reader \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts. Offering an extensive critical perspective, this volume provides leading essays by poets and scholars who explore haiku's various global developments, demonstrating the form's complex and sometimes contradictory manifestations from the twentieth century to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sixteen chapters are carefully organized into categories that reflect the salient areas of practice and study: Haiku in Transit, Haiku and Social Consciousness, Haiku and Experimentation, and The Future of Global Haiku. An insightful introduction surveys haiku's influence beyond Japan and frames the collection historically and culturally, questioning commonly held assumptions about haiku and laying the groundwork for new ways of seeing the form. 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Whether the haiku is a mirror (possibly even an x-ray) of its cultural moment, whether it is a dissident form or a sentimental craft best left to amateurs and siloed communities—are the kinds of questions debated here with passion and precision. As a poet, this is the kind of talking-about-poetry that I yearn to read. The point of this book, though, is not to find answers to whether haiku is a global movement or a local movement, a deeply misunderstood Japanese art-form or a ‘spirit’ that all poets can share, but it is to understand and explore the meanings, ideas, values and desires that inhere in such questions. It is that rare event, a scholarly book that will be taken up gratefully by general readers, students, and poets themselves.\" —Kevin Brophy, Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An instantly indispensable volume for anyone interested in haiku itself—its own knapsack-journey to far norths, souths, easts, wests, and to deeply human interiors—as well as for anyone interested in the development of current world poetry, whose course was profoundly and permanently altered by haiku's emergence in global translation.\" —Jane Hirshfield, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of Haiku\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLedger\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTen Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This definitive compilation of essays by haikuists, critics and scholars is destined to transform the understanding and appreciation of the myriad modern offshoots—let alone traditional Japanese taproot—of the world’s most popular verseform. Surveying for the first time the influence of haiku on literary arts around the globe over the past century, from Modernism, Imagism and Surrealism to anti-war verse, indigenous people’s resistance poetry, ecological paean and so on, \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Global Haiku Reader\u003c\/i\u003e sows the seeds of a truly efflorescent epiphany.\" —Adam L. Kern, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Book of Haiku\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003cem\u003eThe Routledge Global Haiku Reader\u003c\/em\u003e champions a geopolitically sophisticated approach to haiku studies that cuts through the distortions and exoticisms of the Japan\/West binary in which the commentary has been entrenched. The essays span a compelling diversity of haiku \u003ci\u003esituations\u003c\/i\u003e: compositions in Taiwan and Singapore critical of Japan’s imperialism, by indigenous peoples of America, Japanese-Canadians, or poets in Latin America, Brazil, and Russia. This curiosity, this awareness and exploration of the layered factors of race, myth, and politics as they give impetus to and occasion meaning for haiku poetry is what makes this volume so fresh, so new, and so necessary. This collection blends the dispositions of both poets and scholars to create a commentary that is rigorously informed while insistent upon haiku as a living, active practice that has a present and future.\" —Arthur Mitchell, Associate Professor, Macalester College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Contributors \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Permissions \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI Haiku in Transit \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Beyond the Haiku Moment: Bashō, Buson, and Modern Haiku Myths \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Hearn, Bickerton, Hubbell: Translation and Definition \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Reading an Evening Breeze: Buson’s \u003ci\u003eHokku \u003c\/i\u003ein Translation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eII Haiku and Social Consciousness \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 A Second-Class Art: On Contemporary Haiku \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 From the 2.26 Incident to the Atomic Bombs: Haiku During the Asia-Pacific War \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 New Rising Haiku: The Evolution of Modern Japanese Haiku and the Haiku Persecution Incident \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Translations and Migrations of the Poetic Diary: Roy Kiyooka’s \u003ci\u003eWheels \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIII Haiku and Experimentation \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Ezra Pound, Yone Noguchi, and Imagism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Haiku as a Western Genre: Fellow-Traveler of Modernism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Marking Time in Native America: Haiku, Elegy, Survival \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 The Disjunctive Dragonfly: A Study of Disjunctive Method and Definitions in Contemporary English-Language Haiku \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIV The Future of Global Haiku \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 Non-Japanese Haiku Today \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 One Hundred Bridges, One Hundred Traditions in Haiku \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14 In the Shade of the Cherry Blossoms: The Reception of Haiku in Post-Soviet Russia \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15 From Haiku to the Short Poem: Bridging the Divide 16 Future of World Haiku \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eV Afterword \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018939466071,"sku":"9781032272658","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032272658.jpg?v=1750778748"},{"product_id":"a-history-of-haiku-volume-two-from-issa-up-to-the-present-9798886770032","title":"A History of Haiku (Volume Two): From Issa up to the Present","description":"","brand":"Greenpoint Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52086189162839,"sku":"9798886770032","price":23.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/collections\/poetry-haiku.oembed","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}