Haiku
10 best books like Haiku (Richard Wright): How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, Basho: The Complete Haiku, Un Lun Dun, Six Records of a Floating Life, Lake Wobegon Days, The Book of Boy, Hughes: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets), Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku, The Haiku Anthology: Haiku And Senryu In English, I Shall Not Be Moved
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
| Author | Randall Munroe |
| ISBN | 1473680336 |
How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...
| Author | Matsuo Bashō |
| ISBN | 4770030630 |
Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight. Every new student of haiku quickly learns that Basho was the greatest of the Old Japanese Masters.
Yet despite his stature, Bashos...
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 0345495160 |
What is Un Lun Dun?
It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of strange delights where all the lost and broken things of London end up . . . and some of its lost and broken people, too–including Brokkenbroll, boss of the broken umbrellas; Obaday Fing, a tailor whose head is...
Six Records of a Floating Life
| Author | Shen Fu |
| ISBN | 0140444297 |
Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage...
| Author | Garrison Keillor |
| ISBN | 0670805149 |
Lake Wobegon. I have tried to read you over the years and every time I picked you up I was bored out of my mind. This time I tried audio. That helped. I can see why people love to listen to you; I can see why people don’t like to listen to you.
So, Lake Wobegon was founded by Unitarians, and it seemed...
| Author | Catherine Gilbert Murdock |
Boy has always been relegated to the outskirts of his small village. With a large hump on his back, a mysterious past, and a tendency to talk to animals, he is often mocked and abused by the other kids in his town. Until the arrival of a shadowy pilgrim named Secondus. Impressed with Boy’s climbing and...
| Author | Langston Hughes |
| ISBN | 0375405518 |
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is a...
| Author | William J. Higginson |
| ISBN | 4770014309 |
"The Haiku Handbook" is the first book to give the reader everything needed to begin writing or teaching haiku. It presents haiku poets writing in English, Spanish, French, German, and five other languages on an equal footing with Japanese poets. Not only are the four great Japanese masters of the haiku...
| Author | Cor van den Heuvel |
| ISBN | 0393321185 |
Originally a Japanese form that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, haiku has recently experienced tremendous growth in popularity in the English language. The Haiku Anthology, first published in 1974, is a landmark work in modern haiku, honoring a genre of poetry that celebrates...
| Author | Maya Angelou |
| ISBN | 0553354582 |
In her first book of poetry since Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind. This memorable collection of poems exhibits Maya Angelou's unique...
