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This book is a combination of how-to write haiku, plus over 14o poems.
© 2004 - 2009 by Walter E. Harris III. All rights reserved.
This book is being used in classrooms at:
SUNY Stony Brook, Hofstra University and Suffolk Community College on Long Island.
(as reviewed in The Improper) http://www.theimproper.com/columnists.asp?sName=novel&id=Dec04
Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) has compiled, written, edited and included calligraphy for this special compilation that in essence, creates a “community of people and poets”. Each haiku stands alone, but the collective is arranged to have a discernable flow; haikai-no-renga (“long linked-poem”). Altogether, the book offers beginners, intermediates, and advanced readers of poetry and haiku a broader understanding of the form. The book begins with an overview of structure and technique, which includes an aptly named “haiku tool-kit”, artistic perspectives, and other “tips” and information. The subsequent 82 pages include entries from the likes of Tom Stock, “in late winter / garlic tops sprout / green spikes toward spring”, Alan Semerdjian, “in the changing / between day and night / a rainbow exits”, and Oliver Ferrer Fuentes, “underneath my feet / a piece of me is left / after each footstep.” The haiku are interwoven with aphorisms, “kanji” (“picture writing”), pictographs, and calligraphy. Haiku One Breaths is a source of tidbits of enlightenment, relaxation, and personal settling.
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