The Penguin Book of Haiku

b>First Penguin volume/b>br> b>Of best Japanese haiku/b>br> b>Vivid translations/b>br> br>Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its minimalism and brevity, usually running three lines in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about reality, in fact the haiku is much more: it can be erotic, funny, crude and mischievous. Presenting over a thousand exemplars in vivid and engaging translations by Adam L. Kern, this anthology offers an illuminating introduction to this widely celebrated, if misunderstood, art form.

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Adam L. Kern's authoritative new anthology challenges the myth of haiku as a monkish meditation on the natural world ... What we get is a cultural history of Japan up to the end of the 19th century condensed into verse ... This feast-like anthology reminds us that poets excelled at social media long before the "floating world" of the internet Jeremy Noel-Tod The Times

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• Authors: Anon Anon, Adam Kern, Adam L. Kern
• Assisted by: Adam Kern (Editor), Adam L. Kern (Editor), Kern Adam L. (Editor), Adam Kern (Introduction), Adam Kern (Translation), Adam L. Kern (Translation), Kern Adam L. (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780140424768
• ISBN: 978-0-14-042476-8
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Little Black Classics; Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY / Asian / Japanese, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Japanese, POETRY / Haiku, haiku poems; basho; haiku poetry; poetry anthology