A collection of 121 haiku poems by Dimitar Anakiev

Haiku originated in New York City in 1964, when Beat Generation poet Diane di Prima gave West Coast assemblage artist George Herms a series of seasonal poems that would lead him to create a suite of woodcuts illustrating them.

Bruce H. Feingold has poems that are pyrocumulus clouds on the horizon; ones that discover belly buttons; and ones that converse with Big Bird and Buddha. He deftly engages with haiku, an intriguing genre, that still challenges writers as its 'form' stays in the background-this author stays true to the liquidity of the genre, and nods back to its origins via hokku verses by Matsuo Bash?. I'm sure Bash? would approve of him, and of haiku and its adaptability, and that we want this genre to thrive, not just survive. This is Feingold's answer to his haiku, and its genre, and how we meet multiple emergencies unfolding before us.

A compact collection of more than 500 poems from Jack Kerouac that reveal a lesser known but important side of his literary legacy “Above all, a haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi pastorella.”—Jack Kerouac Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Following the tradition of Basho, Buson, Shiki, Issa, and other poets, Kerouac experimented with this centuries-old genre, taking it beyond strict syllable counts into what he believed was the form’s essence. He incorporated his “American” haiku in novels and in his correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings. In Book of Haikus, Kerouac scholar Regina Weinreich has supplemented a core haiku manuscript from Kerouac’s archives with a generous selection of the rest of his haiku, from both published and unpublished sources.