The haiku form.
A brief guide to the Japanese poetic form focuses on the history of haiku and the problems of translation and on writing original haiku in English. Discussions of the variations which haiku may take, of the development of poetic techniques, and of the understanding of the haiku moment are interspers...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Rutland, Vt. :
Tuttle,
[1974]
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| Summary: | A brief guide to the Japanese poetic form focuses on the history of haiku and the problems of translation and on writing original haiku in English. Discussions of the variations which haiku may take, of the development of poetic techniques, and of the understanding of the haiku moment are interspersed with characteristic poems translated from the Japanese and with original haiku in English. |
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| Physical Description: | 176 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Bibliography: pages 167-171. |
| ISBN: | 0804811105 9780804811101 |