Haiku: Japanese Poems for the Four Seasons Molly Aitken ultimately hopeful novel-in-verse about a

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Haiku: Japanese Poems for the Four Seasons Molly Aitken ultimately hopeful novel-in-verse about aPerhaps no poetic form evokes nature so effectively as the haiku. Made up of just seventeen syllables, it conveys an impression with almost the same immediacy as our own senses it can be as ephemeral as a breath and as powerful as lightning. This delightful volume presents some 140 haiku by masters of every period including Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki arranged according to the kigo (or word linked to a particular season) that each haiku