Seeds From a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and The Spiritual Journey
Infused with hearty Zen wisdom and proceeding at a deliberately unhurried pace,Seeds from  a Birch Treeattempts to make the poetry of nature into an easily accessible refuge from the fast pace of  the technological world. Clark Strand, an English teacher who has lived as a Zen Buddhist monk,  has  written an engaging book that weaves personal memoir with poetry instruction. The book is well written if  unusual, a happily meandering series of lessons that encourage the reader to appreciate how the writing and  reading of haiku can become a very practical meditative process.