Three Simple Lines: A Writer's Pilgrimage Into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku

by Natalie Goldberg and Marisa Crane

Book Overview

One of the world's foremost writing teachers invites readers on a joyful journey into the reading and origins of haiku

A haiku is three simple lines. But it is also, as Allen Ginsberg put it, three lines that "make the mind leap." A good one, he said, lets the mind experience "a small sensation of space which is nothing less than God." As many spiritual practices seek to do, the haiku's spare yet acute noticing of the immediate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608686973
• ISBN13: 9781608686971
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: New World Library
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"