On Haiku

by Hiroaki Sato

Who doesn't love haiku? It is not only America's most popular cultural import from Japan but also our most popular poetic form: instantly recognizable, more mobile than a sonnet, loved for its simplicity and compression, as well as its ease of composition. Haiku is an ancient literary form seemingly made for the Twittersphere--Jack Kerouac and Langston Hughes wrote them, Ezra Pound and the Imagists were inspired by them, Hallmark's made millions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811227413
• ISBN13: 9780811227414
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"