Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku

William J. Higginson with Penny Harter

ISBN 10: 4770014309 / ISBN 13: 9784770014306

Published by Kodansha International, New York, NY, 1989

About this Item

Gives the reader everything needed to begin writing or teaching haiku. The book presents a concise history of the Japanese haiku, including the dynamic changes throughout the 20th century. Also includes form, the seasons in haiku, and haiku craft, plus background on the Japanese poetic tradition, and a reference section of haiku-related terms. Book has light wear at edges. Dust Jacket has wear at edges, lightly rubbed. Size: 4 1/4" x 7".

Seller Inventory # 008788

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku
• Publisher: Kodansha International, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 4770014309
• ISBN 13: 9784770014306
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: First Printing of This Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: PAPERBACK

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Synopsis

Shares examples of haiku, the brief Japanese poetry form, explains its construction, and offers tips on composing one's own poem

About the Author

WILLIAM J. HIGGINGSON studied Japanese at Yale University where he discovered the haiku, and served, with the U.S. Air Force in Japan. He is a charter member of the Haiku Society of America, founded in 1968, and edited and published Haiku Magazine (1971-76). He has three published collections of longer poems and one of haiku, and has work appearing in magazines and anthologies worldwide. He has also taught in the National Endowment for the Arts "Poets-in-the Schools" program, leading writing workshops in hundreds of schools, and he regularly speaks at conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. Higginson's international anthology of haiku for children, Wind in the Long Grass, is a classroom favorite. His two-volume sequel to The Haiku Handbook, The Haiku Seasons and Haiku World, gives a comprehensive view of the history, present state, and international possibilities of seasonal consciousness in poetry.

PENNY HARTER, Higginson's wife and collaborator on the Handbook, is a poet and teacher with 14 collections of poems to her credit. She has received three grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for her poetry, and an award from the Poetry Society of America. She has served as a visiting poet for the Council and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in classes from kindergarten through high school. Her work is published internationally; among her recent books are Shadow Play: Night Haiku, a collection for children, and her latest book, Turtle Blessing. The couple lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Harter teaches at Santa Fe Preparatory School.