The haiku form.

Description:

A brief guide to the Japanese poetic form focuses on the history of haiku and the problems of translation and on writing original haiku in English. Discussions of the variations which haiku may take, of the development of poetic techniques, and of the understanding of the haiku moment are interspersed with characteristic poems tranlated from the Japanese and with original haiku in English.

subjects: Haiku,  History and criticism,  English Haiku