While on a family camping trip, Hala teaches her friend Henry how to write Haiku, an ancient form of Japanese poetry. Includes creative writing exercises to assist the reader in writing haiku.
A collection of 817 haiku written by African-American author Richard Wright during the last eighteen months of his life, in which he focuses on man's relationship to nature and the natural world.
Presents more than two hundred works of haiku spanning 1488-1902 by such Japanese masters as Basho, Issa, Shiki, and many more, each presented in Japanese and in English.