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Introduces the form of Japanese poetry known as haiku, explores the seven keys to writing haiku, and provides instructions for five haiku projects, including creating haiga, or illustrated haiku.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Donegan, Patricia
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston, Mass. : Tuttle Pub., 2003.
Subjects:	Creative writing (Elementary education) > Juvenile nonfiction. Haiku > Study and teaching (Elementary) > Activity programs > Juvenile nonfiction. English language > Composition and exercises > Study and teaching (Elementary) > Activity programs > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	Introduces the form of Japanese poetry known as haiku, explores the seven keys to writing haiku, and provides instructions for five haiku projects, including creating haiga, or illustrated haiku.
Physical Description:	64 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	0804835012
Author Notes:	Patricia Donegan served on the faculty of East-West poetics at Naropa University under Allen Ginsberg and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche was a student of haiku master Seishi Yamaguchi, and a Fulbright scholar to Japan. She is a meditation teacher, previous poetry editor for Kyoto Journal , and a longtime member of the Haiku Society of America. Her haiku works include Love Haiku: Japanese Poems of Yearning, Passion & Remembrance (co-translated with Yoshie Ishibashi), Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart, Haiku: Asian Arts for Creative Kids , and Chiyo-ni Woman Haiku Master (co-translated with Yoshie Ishibashi). Her poetry collections include: Hot Haiku, Bone Poems, Without Warning, Heralding the Milk Light , and haiku selections in various anthologies. She won first prize in the 1998 Mainichi International Haiku Contest and won a Merit Book Award for translation from the Haiku Society of America for her book on Chiyo-ni, also in 1998. Her books on haiku have combined scholarship and insight in reaching young and old to inspire and sustain a lifelong interesting in haiku poetry, in both Japanese and English.