The Heart of Haiku by Jane Hirshfield

The Heart of Haiku

Jane Hirshfield

40 pages digital 2011

2 editions

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In seventeenth-century Japan, the wandering poet Basho developed haiku, a seventeen-syllable poetic form now perhaps the most widely written type of poetry in the world. Haiku are practiced by poets, lovers, and schoolchildren, by “political haiku...

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