{"id":34,"date":"2009-03-17T20:43:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T20:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixellatedbookshelf.wordpress.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2011-05-10T09:04:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T09:04:22","slug":"everymans-library-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/egganddart\/2009\/03\/everymans-library-haiku\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyman&#8217;s Library, <i>Haiku<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who hasn&#8217;t tried to write haiku? I last did it when contributions in this format were requested for our internal staff news, and I wrote one on the unlikely topic of a website launch.<\/p>\n<p>This little book consists mostly of translations of haiku by the Japanese masters (Basho is my favourite of these), and arranged by theme such as the season. Not knowing Japanese, I can&#8217;t comment on the quality of the translations, so I&#8217;ll concentrate instead on the untranslated poems in English. These are of two kinds. &#8216;Traditional&#8217; ones have been extracted from existing English poems in another form. This doesn&#8217;t really work; you can&#8217;t make a haiku by moving around the line breaks, however Japanese the sentiments of the verse (Loveliest of trees,\/the cherry now is hung with bloom\/along the bough). Some of the &#8216;Modern&#8217; poems which consciously imitate haiku are more successful; I think that Kerouac does it best, perhaps because of his involvement with Buddhism.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Everyman&#8217;s Library (November 11, 2003)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 1400041287<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-1400041282<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who hasn&#8217;t tried to write haiku? I last did it when contributions in this format were requested for our internal staff news, and I wrote one on the unlikely topic of a website launch. This little book consists mostly of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/egganddart\/2009\/03\/everymans-library-haiku\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/egganddart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/egganddart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/egganddart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/egganddart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/egganddart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/egganddart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/egganddart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/egganddart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/egganddart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/egganddart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}