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NOW AVAILABLE!
“It's 2010, what better way for poetry lovers to start off the new year than with this 2010 haiku calendar... The calendar is filled not only with brilliant haiku from local poets, but other forms of eastern poetry including tanka and senryu.” - James Wagner - www.examiner.com/Long_Island
2010 Haiku and Brush Calligraphy Calendar
includes haiku, senryu, a few tanka and short poems, plus a haibun...
from 25 poets and artists. Edited, and with calligraphy, by Mankh (Walter E. Harris III).
Each month has 6-7 poems plus original calligraphy artwork of ancient Chinese
pictographs, with explanations, or a photo, or watercolor painting. There is a
very brief history of haiku on the back cover, plus what the pictograph for haiku means.
The calendar also includes the holidays of cultures around the world, plus full and
new moons, and solstices, equinoxes and cross-quarters.
Did you know that January 10th is “Save the Eagles Day”? Or that August 27th is
“Global Forgiveness Day”?
The calendar is printed on 100% post consumer recycled fiber, chlorine free.
2010 is the Year of the Male Metal Tiger.
The pages are 8.5 x 11, it is all black and white and shades of gray.
to order the 2010 calendar
Review of 2009 calendar:
“It is a fun calendar for haiku aficionados as well as for those with an interest in visual art.”
- George Swede, Editor - Frogpond
winter solitude
the exact shape
of the moon
- Bill Kenney
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spring twilight
after all this time
the way he said my name
- Geri Barton
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she walks home from school
rain kissing her bouquet
of birthday balloons
- J R Turek
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the art of conversation
interrupted
by the cell phone
- Sheila Mardenfeld
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from the airplane
Fuji rising up
out of the clouds
- Russ Green
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brief history by Mankh (Walter E. Harris III)
Though its roots go back at least 2600 years, haiku as a literary form began to flourish with
Matsuo Bashô in 17th century Japan. The individual hokku (what would become haiku)
was extracted from haikai-no-renga (linked verse). Nearly all modern haiku poets agree
that the 5-7-5 syllable structure is not necessary, as Japanese is a picture language and
does not have syllables, rather onji (sound-symbols, what the 5-7-5 refers to). If the poem
happens to be 17 syllables (or occasionally longer), fine, but in general, 10 to 14 syllables
more aptly convey what a haiku in Japanese sounds and feels like. One guideline: whatever works best!
This calendar features haiku, plus senryu which have a similar structure but highlight human
nature and are typically humorous, ironic, or poignant . . . though it can be challenging to tell
the difference, so haiku often becomes the generic term for both. Also included are tanka (5 lines),
and short poems with a haiku-like style to show the versatility and expandability of the haiku
essence. Plus, haibun, a short prose piece followed by a haiku, and often used in travel journals,
the most well-known being Bashô’s Narrow Road to the Interior.
Art combined with a haiku is traditionally called haiga. Most of the brush calligraphy in this calendar
is based on ancient Chinese pictographs that pre-date the Japanese writing system, as well as the
standard Chinese. Some pictographs have been found on ancient bones and tortoise shells.
to order
© 2009-2010 individual authors
website © 2009-2010 by Walter E. Harris III.
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