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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Language
English
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From watching a sunset to finding a beetle, Richard Wright's haiku puts everyday moments into focus. Paired with the photo-collage artwork of Nina Crews, Seeing into Tomorrow celebrates the lives of contemporary African American boys.
2) On haiku
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New Directions paperbook volume NDP1426
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x, 294 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"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, and loved for its simplicity and compression, as well as for 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, first-grade students...
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xxxvi, 424 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
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An anthology of more than 800 poems that were originally written in English by over 200 poets from around the world.This collection tells the story for the first time of Anglophone haiku, charting its evolution over the last one hundred years and placing it within its historical and literary context.
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English
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This haiku book provides an invaluable guide to developing your own haiku-writing skills, with clear explanations, brilliant examples, and innovative writing exercises. It also offers an introduction to related Japanese poetic forms including: o Senryu commentaries on human nature that are often humorous or ironic o Haibun short, autobiographical narratives accompanied by a haiku o Tanka imaginative poems full of highly personal, emotional expressions...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Won Ton and his boy are enjoying a fine life until "Doom" -- a dog that's smelly and steals his dinner -- arrives, but soon the disgruntled cat learns that his new family member might have some good points, too.
11) Dogku
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Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
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English
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A haiku poem about a loveable dog.
13) Morning haiku
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xiv, 104 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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There are intimate verses here for family and friends, verses of profound loss and silence, of courage and resilience. Sanchez is innovative, composing haiku in new forms, including a section of moving two-line poems that reflect on the long wake of 9/11. In a brief and personal opening essay, the poet explains her deep appreciation for haiku as an art form. With its touching portraits and by turns uplifting and heartbreaking lyrics, Morning Haiku...
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Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 16 cm
Language
English
Description
Imagine if your dog could talk to you. Better still, imagine if it could express its innermost feelings in poetic form. This hilarious, insightful book confirms what we've all long suspected - that inside every dog is the soul of a poet. From retrieving sticks to rivalry with cats; from cold winter walks to endlessly chasing tennis balls, no stone of a dog's life is left unturned.
Series
Essential poets volume 20
Physical Desc
xvi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
20) Guess who, haiku
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English
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A collection of haiku, each of which describes an animal and asks a question that rhymes with the answer on the following page.
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