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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
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
Physical Desc
x, 294 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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
Description
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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Language
English
Description
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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Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
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