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Book of Haikus

By Regina Weinreich, Jack Kerouac

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| Paperback | 9780142002643

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Highlighting a lesser-known aspect of one of America's most influential authors, this new collection displays Jack Kerouac's interest in and mastery of haiku. Experimenting with this compact poetic genre throughout his career, Kerouac often included haiku in novels, correspondence, notebooks, journaContinue

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Book of Haikus

If we talk about nothing, doesn't the talk become something? And don't we see, or think we see, the nothing through our something? What this process can achieve is a sense of space. There's this much room between the nothing we wish to address in som ... (read full critics)

raintaxi published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

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Kerouac tells us that the American Haiku "...is a 'world of meaning in a miniature'...". Cats, sunsets, dusks, that's the Jack Kerouac haiku's world.This original, non-classic, spontaneous bop prosody (as says Ginsberg) looks like to be written by an idillyc Buddah that didn't know other than the il ... (continue)

Kerouac tells us that the American Haiku "...is a 'world of meaning in a miniature'...". Cats, sunsets, dusks, that's the Jack Kerouac haiku's world.This original, non-classic, spontaneous bop prosody (as says Ginsberg) looks like to be written by an idillyc Buddah that didn't know other than the illumination, the Nirvana, coming from the poetry hidden among the little things.

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