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Write your own haiku see the world through "haiku eyes"

"Haiku is a uniquely Japanese form of poetry that uses vivid words and imagery to capture a feeling or a moment in just three lines. Short but powerful, haiku poems are easy and fun to write and share with your friends. The activities in this book will show you how to create your own haiku and will...

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Main Author: Donegan, Patricia (Author)
Other Authors: Jeffrey, Masturzh (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Tokyo ; Rutland, Vermont ; Singapore : Tuttle Publishing [2017]
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Haiku > Juvenile nonfiction.
Haiku > Authorship > Juvenile nonfiction.
Japanese poetry > Juvenile nonfiction.
Poetry > Juvenile.
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Summary:"Haiku is a uniquely Japanese form of poetry that uses vivid words and imagery to capture a feeling or a moment in just three lines. Short but powerful, haiku poems are easy and fun to write and share with your friends. The activities in this book will show you how to create your own haiku and will help you to think up memorable words and images, and write the three short lines that make a great haiku."--Back cover.
In this fun Japanese children's book, kids will learn to create haiku-- elegant and simplistic Japanese poems. Haiku is a uniquely Japanese form of poetry that uses vivid words and imagery to capture a feeling or a moment in just three lines. Short but powerful, haiku poems are easy and fun to write and share with your friends. Haiku has become increasingly popular in school curriculums around the world, particularly among teachers introducing students to the art of poetry as well as Asian history and heritage. The activities in this haiku-for-kids book will show you how to create haiku and will help you to think up meaningful words and images with which you can write beautiful poetry.
Item Description:"Write poetry in the Japanese tradition : easy step-by-step instructions to compose simple poems" -- at head of title.
"Published in 2005 by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd."--Colophon.
Physical Description:47 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Audience:8-12.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-47).
ISBN:9780804849296
0804849293
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 (cotranslated 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 (cotranslated 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.

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