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Write Your Own Haiku for Kids

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Description

Age range 8 to 12

Haiku is a uniquely Japanese form of poetry that uses images from nature to capture a feeling or a moment. Haiku are short but powerful-making them easy and fun to write and share with your friends.
The activities in this book will show you how to create your own haiku, and will help you to think up memorable words and images, and write the three short lines that make a great haiku. With clear explanations and many examples, this is a great way to have fun while you explore this fascinating aspect of Japanese culture.

Write Your Own Haiku introduces four styles of haiku to readers and includes projects on:

Your first haiku-how to get started with the classic form of poetry

Haiku about Nature-exploring nature is a traditional element in haiku

Haibun-Haiku with a short story

Haiga-Haiku with a drawing

Renga-Haiku that you write with friends

Additional information

Dimensions 191 × 254 mm
ISBN

9780804849296

Dimensions

191 x 254 mm

Book Type

Hardback

Author

Patricia Donegan

Author Bio

Patricia Donegan served on the faculty of East-West poetics at Naropa University under Allen Ginsberg and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, was a student of haiku master Seishi Yamaguchi, and a Fulbright scholar to Japan. She is a meditation teacher, previous poetry editor for Kyoto Journal, and a longtime member of the Haiku Society of America. Her books on haiku have combined scholarship and insight in reaching young and old to inspire and sustain a lifelong interesting in haiku poetry, in both Japanese and English.

Number of Pages

48

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