books of various sizes (mostly big)
So, I'm reading, physically, Against The Day by Thomas Pynchon and Giles Goat Boy by John Barth. Meanwhile, in my car, I'm listening to Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison (which I've had for so long that the library thinks I lost it).
In any case, last night I was watching Little Miss Sunshine and I thought about starting Remembrance of the Things Past (which I've tried to start on three seperate occassions).
My new thought is that perhaps I should learn to appreciate haiku a bit more. So, does anybody know of a really honkin' big book of haiku I could read.
In any case, last night I was watching Little Miss Sunshine and I thought about starting Remembrance of the Things Past (which I've tried to start on three seperate occassions).
My new thought is that perhaps I should learn to appreciate haiku a bit more. So, does anybody know of a really honkin' big book of haiku I could read.
posted by Monstro D. Whale at
5:52 AM
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From a marketing standpoint, I think you're onto something with this mondo haiku volume. It would be this funny thing that intellectuals could leave on their coffee tables for laughs. Could become a cult favorite with the literati.
BTW, let a brotha know if Giles Goat Boy is good, eh? I've had that thing for 10+ years (picked up the paperback at a used book sale for a dime). Never cracked the spine.
Didn't know Ellison ever wrote anything except Invisible Man (though IM was one of those watershed novels for me, perhaps the watershed book, really).
[I had more here, but deleted it as I remembered that comments are public. Drop me your email sometime at patrick.hillman [at] gmail.com. Just had a thought to share unrelated to this post.]
Haikus are an art
They can be original
Fun to come up with
Hi Aquaman!
Do you want a big book of Haiku from different ages and literary periods, of a huge collection of haikus from one master haikuist?
OI'd suggest Basho, Ai, A little Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and of course the biggest collection of women's confessional haiku you can find.
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