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Book of Haikus - Jack Kerouac & Regina Weinreich

By Jack Kerouac & Regina Weinreich

Release Date: 2003-04-01

Genre: Poetry

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A compact collection of more than 500 poems from Jack Kerouac that reveal a lesser known but important side of his literary legacy

ā€œAbove 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.ā€ā€”Jack Kerouac
 
Renowned 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 formā€™s essence. He incorporated his ā€œAmericanā€ 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haiku manuscript from Kerouacā€™s archives with a generous selection of the rest of his haiku, from both published and unpublished sources.

Book of Haikus - Jack Kerouac & Regina Weinreich

By Jack Kerouac & Regina Weinreich

Release Date: 2003-04-01

Genre: Poetry

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A compact collection of more than 500 poems from Jack Kerouac that reveal a lesser known but important side of his literary legacy

ā€œAbove 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.ā€ā€”Jack Kerouac
 
Renowned 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 formā€™s essence. He incorporated his ā€œAmericanā€ 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haiku manuscript from Kerouacā€™s archives with a generous selection of the rest of his haiku, from both published and unpublished sources.

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