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This unique journal guides and encourages you to reflect on your day in the style of everyone’s favorite short-form poem—the haiku. It offers 102 creative prompts to help you think about different aspects of your life and capture them in 17 syllables. Conceived by the Haiku Guys & Gals, this journal also contains examples of their poems for inspiration. The prompts encourage you to write haiku on a range of subjects: a tribute to your hero, an ode to a childhood memory, a note on the weather, or an observation about your day. The journal also provides a brief history of the haiku, a basic explanation of how it is comprised, and some tips for getting into a haiku-writing frame of mind. Whether you skip around or proceed with the prompts in order, 102 Haiku Journal, encourages both creativity and self-reflection, all in a beautiful little package.

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Publié par	ABRAMS BOOKS
Date de parution	05 septembre 2017
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781683351962
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	11 Mo

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17 Syllables to Say It All

102

17 Syllables to Say It All

ABRAMS NOTERIE, NEW YORK

JOURNAL
Design by Hana Nakamura

ISBN 978-1-4197-2677-4 eISBN 978-1-68335-196-2

Published in 2017 by Abrams Noterie, an imprint of

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a human being

is the owner of this fine

book of haiku thoughts

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to your new mission.

It s clear that you are the type of

person who is interested in living a

life that is an adventure, whatever

that adventure may be. You want to

do and see great things.

We know that every great thing we

want to see in the world has got to

start with the only great thing that

we truly control.

The great thing that you see every

morning when you look in the mirror.

You.

When it comes to the power of haiku

to learn about yourself, we are the

experts. We write custom poems

for strangers every day, all around

the world; it is an intimate and

revelatory experience.

Our mission is to inspire people to

take bold action in the pursuit of

passion. It looks like you are on that

mission now, too.

We re on this mission together.
Q: What Is a Haiku Anyway?

A: An Unusual Strophe

As we delve into the world of haiku

together, let s note our context: We

are English-speaking Westerners

who have studied poetic forms

spanning linguistic, historic, and

cultural divides. We ve taken

haiku out of its original context

of ancient Japanese culture and

are experimenting with it for

contemporary Western audiences.

We do so with the utmost respect

for the original art form and all of

our knowledge and guidance has

the purpose of bringing haiku into

a new time and place, never to tell

any traditional Japanese artists how

they should write haiku.

Many people remember haiku from

early grade school-what a great

opportunity for our teachers to

show us what syllables are. But

some people must have been absent

during that day of second grade;

we ll never forget the day an angry

fellow stormed over to our haiku

stand demanding to know, WHAT

IS A HACKUS?!?
In the English-speaking world, the

classic definition of a haiku is any

three-line poem, with a syllabic

structure of 5-7-5. There is a lot more

going on in the traditional Japanese

style. There are two crucial

elements of the traditional Japanese

haiku: a

kireji

(cutting word)

between two different thoughts

or images, and a

kigo

(seasonal

reference). These rules are often set

aside in the construction of Western-

style haiku, and we re cool with

that, but it is important to at least

know that in Japanese, the syllable

hai means unusual and ku

means strophe or verse. So the

word

haiku

translates exactly to an

unusual strophe. That definition is

pretty important in the application

of haiku to our daily lives because

every haiku is an opportunity for a

fresh perspective.

Haiku started to emerge in ancient

Japan nearly 1,000 years ago, as a

casual, collaborative poetic form. It

wasn t until the time of the great

master Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

that the

hokku

, the standalone 5-7-5

poem, reached real greatness and

prestige as more than just a witty

party trick.
Basho was the first in a new line

of masterful haiku poets who

revolutionized cultural life in

Japan, and his followers became

the leaders of generations of haiku

masters like Buson, Issa, Shiki,

and rarer, though prolific, women

haikuists like Chigetsu, Kikusha, and

Chiyo. As soon as Western writers

heard of this beautiful poetic form,

it gained traction and attention

worldwide. Foreign people living in

Japan and internationally minded

Japanese and experimental writers

interested in minimalism all caught

wind of the magic of haiku.

And now we are here.

Don t you think it s time to start?

Are you ready yet?

(See what we did there?)
HOW TO HAIKU
There Must Be

Ways to Write

Your Haiku

Over the course of this book you re

going to be struck by inspiration in

many different ways. Like all things,

writing haiku gets easier with

practice, we swear. Until the ideas

start flowing like water, try some of

these exercises to get your muses

talking to you.

Or, if you re ready, skip ahead to

start your haiku adventure.

Exercise 1: Think about your life.

Make a list of ten or more words

or phrases that describe you, your

passions, your dreams, challenges in

your life, and things you love. Be as

specific as possible. And it doesn t

need to sound poetic -this is just

a freely associated list for you and

you will not need to turn it in to the

teacher.
Exercise 2: Visualization.

Close your eyes and take a few slow,

deep breaths, as calmly as possible.

Give yourself about sixty seconds of

uninterrupted quiet breath. You ll

start to notice images arising in

your head. Let your mind wander

to scenes, pictures, and scenarios

that you enjoy-scenes of nature,

certain sounds, colors, scents, tastes,

textures. After a few minutes of

meandering in that mindscape, start

listing as many of these sensory

words and descriptors as you can.

They don t need to connect or make

sense, just let your mind go off on its

own and see what you find.

Exercise 3: Synthesis.

The most powerful way to inspire

is to connect a powerful image

or metaphor with an idea that is

meaningful to you. Look at your lists

and start to imagine connection

between your life and the sensory

exploration you did. You ll probably

find a connection that is really

strong and hits you fast. If not, start

pairing things arbitrarily and see

what you get.
Exercise 4:

Refinement and calibration.

The beauty of a haiku, or any poem

really, is in the way phrases can

feel new and fresh with just small

tweaks from how you d normally

talk. Try writing a full sentence

about something on your mind.

Now look closely at it and pull it

apart. You can move all the sections

around, reverse the order, go back

and forth from passive and active

voice, change perspective, make

it sound like Yoda said it, and it

doesn t even need to make sense ;

think of it like magnetic poetry.

Exercise 5:

New writing implements.

We get inspired just by using a

typewriter-the experience is so

different than typing on a computer

or chicken scratch in one of our

tattered notebooks. You can inspire

yourself too, just by using a writing

tool you don t usually use. Felt tip

marker, mechanical pencil, nail

polish, India ink, calligraphy pen,

old lipstick. . . just don t blame us if

things get messy. Or do, if it will get

you out of trouble.
YOUR HAIKU
Spring

slender shoots emerge

flowers open, future fruit-

a pact with the bees
it s with gratitude

and with no further adieu

we start to haiku

THE HAIKU

PROMPTS
1

Your First Memory

Childhood was a big Crayola

blur for many of us, but what

was one formative moment

that stands out in your mind?

Crawling across your grandma s

shag carpet? Eating glitter in

preschool? Your older brother

throwing a walnut at your head?

Look back and put yourself in

that moment, and enjoy the

simplicity and strangeness

of the world through your

childhood eyes.

it was so shiny

I d never have imagined

it would taste so bad

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