Baseball haiku
Subtitle: American and Japanese haiku and senryu on baseball
By: Edited with translations by Cor van den Heuvel & Nanae Tamura
Contributors: Van den Heuvel, Cor, 1931-; Tamura, Nanae
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780393062199
Subjects: Haiku, American; Baseball -- Poetry; Haiku; Senryu
Genres: Poetry
Description: "Presenting more than two hundred of the greatest haiku ever written about the game. One of the most unusual baseball books of the 2007 season, this remarkable new collection, which includes poems from both America and Japan, captures perfectly the thrill of baseball--a double play, a game of catch, or the hushed pause as a pitcher looks in before hurling his pitch. Like haiku, the game is concerned with the nature of the seasons: joyous in the spring, thrilling in summer's heat, ripening with the descent of fall, and remembered fondly in winter. Featuring the work of Jack Kerouac, the king of the Beat writers, who penned the first American baseball haiku, and Alan Pizzarelli, a major American haiku poet, the collection also includes Masaoka Shiki, one of the four great pillars of Japanese haiku, who fell in love with baseball when he was a student in Tokyo. Baseball Haiku, a literary and baseball treasure, will make a marvelous gift for the baseball fan in your family."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes index