Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years

6 best books like Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (Philip Rowland): Hope Rides Again, Rusty Brown, Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess, The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, The Haiku Anthology: Haiku And Senryu In English, Book of Haikus

Hope Rides Again

Author

Andrew Shaffer

There was not a single chapter where I did not laugh out loud at least once. Delightfully campy and a much needed joyride. Almost like a Ferris Bueller's Day Off for Barry and Joe.

But that being said there were also some truth bombs scattered throughout the storyline.“Truth” had somehow...

Rusty Brown

Author	Chris Ware
ISBN	0224078135

Discover the long-awaited new book from the author of Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories. The perfect gift for graphic novel fans!

‘The week after I finished the last page of Jimmy Corrigan I immediately started a new long story based on characters who had originated...

Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess

Author	Rachel Hoffman
ISBN	1250102952

Finally, a housekeeping and organizational system developed for those of us who'd describe our current living situation as a “f*cking mess” that we're desperate to fix. Unf*ck Your Habitat is for anyone who has been left behind by traditional aspirational systems: The ones that ignore single...

The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa

Author	Robert Hass
ISBN	0613339983

American readers have been fascinated since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku. The seventeen-syllable form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observation of nature, of making poetry from subtle suggestion....

The Haiku Anthology: Haiku And Senryu In English

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...

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,...