Baseball Haiku The Best Haiku Ever Written about the Game

Name: Baseball Haiku The Best Haiku Ever Written about the Game
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ISBN: 9780393062199

ISBN-10: 0393062198

ISBN-13: 9780393062199

Edition: 2007

Authors: Cor van den Heuvel, Nanae Tamura, Nanae Tamura, Nanae Tamura

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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…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.40" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

The editor of The Haiku Anthology , Cor van den Heuvel is an award-winning haiku poet living in New York City.