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Essential Haiku Volume 20 (Essential Poets)
Essential Haiku Volume 20 - Essential Poets
Author: Robert Hass
American readers have been fascinated, since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku. The seventeen-syllable form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observation of nature, of making poetry from subtle suggestion. Infused by its great practitioners with the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780880013512
ISBN-10: 0880013516
Publication Date: 10/1/1995
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Ecco
Book Type: Paperback
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Some of these are sweet and some of these are cutting. A lot make me laugh. I don't usually read poetry, but these kept my attention for a while.

And by the way, it's not "Volume 20" of Haiku it's volume twenty of the Essential Poets series.


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