Author | Jack Kerouac |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Penguin Poets |
Genre | Poetry |
Publisher | Penguin Group |
Publication date | 2003 |
Media type | Print ( paperback) |
Pages | 200 |
ISBN | 978-0-14-200264-3 |
OCLC | 50503314 |
811/.54 21 | |
LC Class | PS3521.E735 B66 2003 |
Book of Haikus is a collection of haiku poetry by Jack Kerouac. It was first published in 2003 and edited by Regina Weinreich. It consists of some 500 poems selected from a corpus of nearly 1,000 haiku jotted down by Kerouac in small notebooks. [1]
Although most of the poetry in Book of Haikus is original, some haiku are paraphrased in Kerouac's prose works:
The top of Jack
Mountain—done in
By golden clouds [2]
also recurs in The Dharma Bums. [3] The collection also contains a handful of haiku published earlier, for instance in Scattered Poems.