To Walk in Seasons. William Howard Cohen

• Тип: Текст
• Автор: William Howard Cohen
• Издательство: Ingram(2020)
• ISBN: 9781462912117
• Язык: Английский

• Жанры: Зарубежная поэзия, Литературоведение

To Walk in Seasons is designed to help the beginner discover haiku for himself, and eventually create his own haiku poems.It includes a lively and sensitive introduction on the nature of haiku. For individual study, or for use in the classroom, it also contains a study guide aimed at recreating the thought processes behind this terse, concentrated form. Mr. Cohen's poetry like his anthology illuminates poetic experience:To walk in seasonsis to discover what's insidea split instantTo walk in seasons;passing through a dry gateinto a rainstorm.To walk in seasons is to wake andfind you really are.Mr. Cohen's haiku and other poems have appeared in many well-known literary periodicals such as Literature East and West and American Haiku. He is the author of The Hill Way Home and A House in the Country, and his works have been praised by such eminent poets as Peter Viereck and Mark Van Doren. (He was elected in 1963 to membership in the Poetry Society of America) Mr. Cohen won the title of United States Olympic Poet, representing the United States in Mexico City in 1968, and in 1969 he honored at the World Congress of Poets in Manila.