Essential Haiku Volume 20 SS_Gift_Guide One runs for her life

One runs for her life

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Essential Haiku Volume 20 SS_Gift_Guide One runs for her life"In classical haiku, one of the most constrained poetic forms, monkeys and herons and trees and the moon can stand in for the entire world. The best of these tiny poems can be at once specific and timeless, questioning and assertive, funny and sad." Sarah Manguso, The Week American readers have been fascinated, since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku. The seventeen