Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Haiku

"Poetry is one of the oldest, most widespread and yet most secret means of renewal known to human culture. It is the most essential way of prizing single words and the immemorial heritage that is language. With poetry, science and magic are mixed; we put runes under a microscope. A poem is a fish that has swallowed a ring of many meanings, leaping from the belly of a lake to flash for an instant in the sun.

"In recent years, I have found myself drawn to the Japanese tanka form, and have developed my own version of it, in English, through practice rather than theory. I say 'my own...

In Owen Bullock’s second haiku sequence with Recent Work Press, he explores the wisdom garnered from his period as a care worker for the elderly in New Zealand. These haiku display the riches of Bullock’s keen sense of observation married with his ability to get to the essence of any subject with his deft use of this most precise of Japanese forms.

A literary vision quest in space & time coming from the mind of a high school student. All poetry written from 9th through 12th grade blended with an emotive exhilarating score of rhyme nuanced by an organized touch of romance.

In haiku, Dale has expressed his artistic talent in perhaps the most disciplined of written forms. With great economy of words, the writer of haiku is challenged to express concepts and insight as seen in everyday observations. In his work, Dale skillfully points out from the commonplace that which one may have missed and then makes application to life.

"A Green Beret warrior with whom I served, Dale Hanson has truly lived the Way of the Samurai. His Haiku verses offer metaphoric glimpses, brilliant momentary visions that flashed in my mind like summer lightning. Sometimes...

This is the second in the series of poetry collections that began with -September. Once again, adapting the Japanese tanka form, Quentin S. Crisp presents a poetic and aphoristic journal of season, mood, observation and introspection. Both a scrapbook of a writer's working process and a marshalling of new combinations of subject matter through an update of old forms, October is a further attempt by the author to close the gap between the time-taking, record-keeping distance of the written word and the immediacy of the living moment.

Like Water is a collection of haiku (traditional style) originally written in Spanish and now translated into English. The book is divided into four sections: Water ( ), Nature ( ), Life ( ) and Writing ( ). It has forty-nine haiku accompanied by fifty-three full color images: photographs by the author, illustrations by Andy Castillo (www.andycastillo.com); and Japanese calligraphy (Shodo) by Elena "Hikari" from Shodo Creativo www.shodocreativo.com. It also has a translated haiku (written in beautiful Japanese calligraphy) by Akiko Harimoto "Soja."

In this first of three volumes, Yendor D. Wolf introduces the world as seen by a martial artist living in the City for the first time. Each haiku zooms in on delightfully, and easily missed, details in the vast metropolis. Wolf provides the reader with a puzzle piece, a fragment of beauty that possesses meaning.

Throughout, Wolf sheds light on his hopes, fears, and thoughts as he answers the age old question: "Was this a good idea?"

Such light that breaks through

These streets, roads, and avenues

Let it shine on me

How to Write a Haiku provides a concise introduction to the art of the haiku and takes the beginner through the process of capturing the fleeting moment or a high point of experience. This practical guide gives examples of haiku newly translated from the Japanese, as well as original haiku in English, and illustrates how the raw material of experience and recollection can be shaped into both formal and informal versions of the traditional haiku.

Quiet Song From Yesterday is a collection of haiku; composed of five sections, each section is a composition of distilled expeditions into the seasons and nature of our world. Meditative in essence, Quiet Songs From Yesterday emboldens the reader to lay aside the freneticism of their lives; the works helping transport the reader through an appreciation of the subtle and ultimately finite interactions of the myriad participants in the theatre of...