Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years

Name: Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years
Brand: WW Norton & Co
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Haiku in English is an anthology of more than 800 brilliantly chosen poems that were originally written in English by over 200 poets from around the world. Although haiku originated as a Japanese art form, it has found a welcome home in the English-speaking 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. It features an engaging introduction by former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins and an insightful historical overview by leading haiku poet, editor, and publisher Jim Kacian.

The selections range from the first fully realized haiku in English, Ezra Pounds In a Station of the Metro, to plentiful examples by haiku virtuosos such as John Wills, Marlene Mountain, Nick Virgilio, and Raymond Roseliep, and to investigations into the genre by eminent poets like John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg, and Seamus Heaney. The editors explore the genres changing forms and themes, highlighting its vitality and its breadth of poetic styles and content. Among the many poems on offer are organic form experiments by E. E. Cummings and Michael McClure, evocations of black culture by Richard Wright and Sonia Sanchez, and the seminal efforts of Jack Kerouac.

The first anthology to map the full range of haiku in the English tradition, Haiku in English is the perfect collection of this spare and elegant genre.

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Weight: 505g
Dimensions: 137 x 191mm
Publication Date: 26 Aug 2013
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780393239478

About

Jim Kacian is the founder of the Haiku Foundation a nonprofit organization dedicated to archiving and promoting haiku in English and of Red Moon Press the largest non-Japanese publisher of haiku-related books. He lives in Winchester Virginia. Philip Rowland teaches literature at Tamagawa University in Tokyo where he lives and is founder and editor of NOON: Journal of the Short Poem. Allan Burns is a professional editor who compiled the haiku anthology Montage: The Book. He lives in Colorado Springs Colorado. Billy Collins was the Poet Laureate of the United States and the State of New York. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College and a Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute. A Literary Lion of the New York Public Library and author of many collections of poetry including Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds and Horoscopes for the Dead he lives in Westchester New York.