Book of Haikus (Penguin Poets)

ISBN: 014200264X

Author: Kerouac, Jack

Condition: New

A compact collection of more than 500 poems from Jack Kerouac that reveal a lesser known but important side of his literary legacyAbove all, a haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi pastorella.-Jack KerouacRenowned 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 the tradition of Basho, Buson, Shiki, Issa, and other poets, Kerouac experimented with this centuries-old genre, taking it beyond strict syllable counts into what he believed was the forms essence. He incorporated his American haiku in novels and in his correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings.In Book of Haikus, Kerouac scholar Regina Weinreich has supplemented a core haiku manuscript from Kerouacs archives with a generous selection of the rest of his haiku, from both published and unpublished sources.