Poetry Form - The Haiga.


The Haiga Verse Form
by J. Zimmerman

* Form. * Examples: Linda Papanicolaou's haiga site.

Form.
haiga [haikai painting]
Traditionally this is a painting executed in the haikai spirit and it includes a hokku presented in calligraph.

Books on Haiku.

Buy Essential Haiku The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa edited by Robert Hass. The past-poet laureate of the U.S.A has compiled this enthralling collection of his own essays in which he summarizes the lives of three masters and inventors of the haiku tradition in Japan:
  • Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the ascetic and seeker,
  • Yosa Buson (1716-83), the artist, and
  • Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), the humanist.
He presents their lives, their prose, and 300 of their poems.
Buy Haiku Seasons The Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World by William J. Higginson.
Buy Haiku World Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac by William J. Higginson, Meagan Calogeras (Editor)

Other Books.

Books on Other Poetry Forms.

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