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Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac

List Price: ~~$19.00~~
Buy New: $77.99
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

(based on 3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 542614
Category: Book

Author: William J. Higginson
Publisher: Kodansha International (JPN)
Studio: Kodansha International (JPN)
Manufacturer: Kodansha International (JPN)
Label: Kodansha International (JPN)
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.2

ISBN: 4770020902
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.8141
EAN: 9784770020901
ASIN: 4770020902

Publication Date: November 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
This unique anthology contains over one thousand haiku and related poems by more than six hundred poets living in fifty countries and writing in twenty-five languages, presented in both English and their original languages. It demonstrates how a tradition begun hundreds of years ago in Japan has now become international. These highly condensed poems often hinge on words or phrases connected with nature; Japanese anthologies have traditionally been arranged by these seasonal themes and included explanations of them. Haiku World is the first book in another language to follow this structure - with explanations of seasonal phenomena from countries, cultures, and environments on every inhabited continent.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

A necessity for readers and writers of haiku and renku! October 15, 2001
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

I love both reading and writing renga/renku and other collaborative poetry endeavours. That said, I don't recall any of my collaborators in poetry not owning the Haiku Almanac. It is indispensable and has William Higginson's amazing ability to create a reference book equally valuable to the already published professional and the curious novice.

Higginson provides a wealth of examples and manages to tie them together despite their diversities. Pure joy!

5 out of 5 stars A brilliant publication   November 21, 1998
  6 out of 7 found this review helpful

Higginson has demonstrated the global relevance of haiku and, in doing so, has given haiku poets the world over a brilliant and valuable resource text.

brilliant book   October 31, 1997
  6 out of 7 found this review helpful

very very very good and very systematic and anthologic book of world haiku