Presents a selection of haiku by 185 contemporary North American authors, written or published in English primarily between 1982 and 1992 in the style of the Basho School of haiku, or the haiku of Issal.
Poet Ian Marshall extracts nearly three hundred haiku verses from within Henry David Thoreau's "Walden, " and discusses the haiku form of poetry, Thoreau's text, and American nature writing.
Presents a collection of haikus written by a fictional mail carrier whom, after he is bitten by a werewolf, becomes one himself and causes chaos wherever he goes.
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.
Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported to seventeenth century Japan where they infuriate a Samurai warrior, encounter their great-grandaughters, and save their lives by reciting an ancient form of poetry.