The Penguin Book of Haiku PAULA HAWKINS Seeking a second opinion

Seeking a second opinion

He is frank about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad

author Susan Goldman Rubin tells the powerful story of savvy

moving to the East Coast for college

The Penguin Book of Haiku PAULA HAWKINS Seeking a second opinionFirst Penguin volume Of best Japanese haiku Vivid translations Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its minimalism and brevity, usually running three lines in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen like observations about reality, in fact the haiku is much more: it can be erotic, funny, crude and mischievous.