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reality's review
5.0
Beautiful mix of the poetry itself, history, analysis, instruction, and more. Particularly good treatment of the nuance and complication around how the art is applied to the English language. Highly recommend.
pturnbull's review
4.0
This was the textbook for a class that I took from the Writers Village University on Japanese poetic forms. It's very thorough. Describes the history of Japanese forms as well as the variations that these forms have undergone in contemporary America. I have a much deeper appreciation and respect for haiku, tanga, renga, haiga, and senryu now that I've studied this textbook. My, these are complicated, but beautiful forms that convey emotion through images. For anyone interested in writing haiku or other Japanese forms, I highly recommend this book.
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