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Book Of Haikus (Paperback)

by Regina Weinreich (Foreword, Editor), Jack Kerouac (Author)

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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Penguin Paperbacks (April 1 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 014200264X
ISBN-13: 978-0142002643
Product Dimensions: 15.6 x 12.4 x 1.9 cm
Shipping Weight: 182 g

Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Highlighting a lesser-known aspect of one of America's most influential authors, this new collection displays Jack Kerouac's interest in and mastery of haiku. Experimenting with this compact poetic genre throughout his career, Kerouac often included haiku in novels, correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings. In this collection, Kerouac scholar Regina Weinreich supplements an incomplete draft of a haiku manuscript found in Kerouac's archives with a generous selection of Kerouac's other haiku, from both published and unpublished sources. With more than 500 poems, this is a must-have volume for Kerouac enthusiasts everywhere.

About the Author

Jack Kerouac's most famous novel, On the Road, was published in 1957 and established him as one of the primary voices of the Beat Generation. In addition to his famous novels, he worked in several poetry traditions including sonnets, odes, and blues.

Regina Weinreich teaches in the Department of Humanities and Sciences at the School of Visual Arts in New York and has published widely in a range of periodicals. She is the author of Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics: A Study of the Fiction.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Low rating for Penguin, not Kerouac, Jan 27 2004

By	NobodyImportant (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews

I want to give a strong second to the previous reviewers comments about the sloppy printing and cheap production values of this and other Kerouac books by Penguin. It's a shame that they have control of so many of Kerouac's most important works. Kerouac's literary executor really ought to rethink the contract. Grove Press does a beautiful job on the Kerouac volumes that they publish and uses paper that will last a lifetime, not this less than newprint junk that Penguin uses. You guys should be ashamed.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Haiku finds American form - Beat!, Aug 25 2003

By	Jack Vaughan (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The other Beat poets generally looked to him as a master, but Jack Kerouac's general reputation will probably always be that of a novelist, albeit a mad one who did little prosaic and much prosodic. Even though he created significant swaths of poetry - within his famous prose and elsewhere, it is a small circle that considers him a poet.

Anyone in that group would like this book.

It shows how far his poems would roam yet stay with a form, the haiku form. This is known to readers of Scattered Poems and Poems All Sizes, and buffs familiar with his recordings with Al Cohn and Zoot Sims - but a better view of the amount of haiku Kerouac had within him is at hand.

A new collectipon of about 700 haikus now appears. Book of Haikus, includes works from several stages in Kerouac's career, and stands well with his other books of poems.

His approach to haiku form, like his approach to blues form, was creative. His first big step was to throw out the syllabic conventions. The classic syllable count of the Japanese form, he reasoned, worked for haiku poems in the Japanese language, but not for English maybe.

For Kerouac, description was key. Encounter with object or experience was key. It is here in Book of Haikus. In haiku bulk.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Must have, Aug 22 2003

By	Frank Neunemann (Gladbeck, Germany) - See all my reviews

A great little book with a collection of haikus. Visual presentation is not the very best, but to me it is the contents that counts. IMHO there hardly is a better way to reflect the feelings of a moment than in a haiku, so one can get an intimate impression about the authors feelings comparable to a collection of snapshots. This haiku book certainly is a must have for every Jack Kerouac fan.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Finding Haiku
Jack Kerouac is truly an American icon. His writing has become legendary- and I think for good reason. Read more

Published on May 24 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars don't judge a book by its cover
i was shocked to see this book with a three star rating, and more shocked that this was the rusult of one reader's dissatisfaction with the cover. Read more

Published on May 17 2003 by grant edwards

3.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Collection: Terrible Presentation
I'm giving this book three stars, though Kerouac rightly deserves 5, and Regina Weinreich just as many for her wonderful introduction and efforts to gather nearly all of JK's... Read more

Published on April 24 2003