Haiku

6 best books like Haiku (Peter Washington): Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart, On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, Hughes: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets), Book of Haikus, The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen, To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart

Author	Patricia Donegan
ISBN	1590305795

Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in three short lines, is celebrated for its ability to express a simple moment in a profound way. The “haiku moment,” as it is called, refers to a heightened awareness of the world around us and how, in that small, transient period, the greater essence of...

On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

Author	Matsuo Bashō
ISBN	0140444599

Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer...

Hughes: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)

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...

Book of Haikus

Author

Jack Kerouac

Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Following in the tradition of Basho, Buson, Shiki, Issa, and other poets, Kerouac experimented with this centuries-old genre,...

The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen

Author	Brian Cox
ISBN	1846144329

In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible;and fascinating to everyone.

The subatomic realm has a reputation for weirdness, spawning any number...

To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

Author

Amanda Lovelace

"You cannot have a funeral for your mother without also having a funeral for yourself." This book poses the ever-lingering question: What happens when someone dies before they're able to redeem themselves?

From the bestselling & award-winning poetess, amanda lovelace, comes the finale...