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Title: Writing and Enjoying Haiku: A Hands on Guide by Jane Reichhold ISBN: 4-7700-2886-5 Publisher: Kodansha International (JPN) Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Book for Poets
Comment: Though the title of Writing and Enjoying Haiku features the word "haiku", this book holds a lot more than simply information on how to write a haiku. Over one-third of the book also covers the subjects of tanka, renga and sijo in the same complete method haiku is explained and made to feel something one can do. And though the book is touted as a method of calming the nerves and finding sense in this world, I find its more important message is its explanation of how Oriental poetry works. Jane Reichhold makes this clear as has no other writer of an instructional book on Oriental poetry. Master poets of the last century have all studied haiku and used this information to enrich and swing their poetry away from the past to a new understanding of how words work together to make the invisible (poetry) clear to the readers' minds. So anyone interested in poetry, their own or that of others, would do well to get this book to open up the world of that comes to us from the East. Haiku can either be a simple game or it can be the very basis of tomorrow's English poetry. It is in the hands of the reader of this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Writing and enjoying haiku
Comment: Jane Reichhold's fine book, "Writing and Enjoying Haiku", should find a place in every poet's library. Besides being an excellent "How to do it" book, it serves as an excellent reference source because it contains information about every age in the historic development of haiku.
When an art form is taken from one culture to another not only are there linguistic sources of error but there are great differences in the "World View" of the parent culture and the adopting cultures. Jane Reichhold has not avoided facing up to these sources of misunderstanding.
"Writing and Enjoying Haiku" is not for the frivolous
and shallow person who looks upon haiku as an entertaining game. It is a book intended for persons who care about haiku. Robert Gibson.
Rating: 3
Summary: good with inaccuracies
Comment: The trouble with a handbook is that the unaware reader will assume that the writer of the handbook can't be wrong. ms. reichhold is wrong about a lot. she didn't get the scheme right for the 2 poet rengay which is a real mistake. there are confusions between metaphor and simile (simile uses "like") and it is confusing taht in her own haiku, ms. reichhold doesnt seem to know the difference. also, all of the haiku samples were written by her which i never saw before in any other haiku book. this is not a good book for a new haiku hobbyist. it might be good for a grad school course in proofreading a writing textbook with inaccuracies.
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Title: Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku by William J. Higginson ISBN: 4770014309 Publisher: Kodansha International (JPN) Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Haiku: A Poet's Guide by Lee Gurga ISBN: 0974189405 Publisher: Modern Haiku Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology by Faubion Bowers ISBN: 0486292746 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: Take a Deep Breath: The Haiku Way to Inner Peace by Sylvia Forges-Ryan, Edward Ryan ISBN: 4770028857 Publisher: Kodansha International (JPN) Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Haiku Anthology by Cor Van Den Heuvel ISBN: 0393321185 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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