Becoming a Haiku Poet Book PDF, ePub eBook

Join our eBook service for unlimited books & audiobooks. Get a free 7 day subscription! ↓↓↓↓↓


Book Descriptions:
Learn the key techniques and strategies for writing haiku in English from acclaimed haiku poet, teacher, and translator Michael Dylan Welch. This book emphasizes the most effective targets for haiku poetry, ones that are usually not taught in schools. There's more to haiku, and less, than you might think. This concise book provides just the information you need to learn the art of haiku and to start becoming a haiku poet.

About the Author
Michael Dylan Welch has published his essays, reviews, translations, haiku, and other poetry in hundreds of journals and anthologies, and has won numerous awards for his work. He has served for many years as vice president of the Haiku Society of America, and served two terms as poet laureate of Redmond, Washington, where he also curates two poetry reading series. Michael also cofounded the Haiku North America conference (1991) and the American Haiku Archives (1996), founded the Tanka Society of America (2000), and started National Haiku Writing Month in 2010 (www.nahaiwrimo.com and on Facebook). Visit his personal website, devoted mostly to haiku, at www.graceguts.com.

Endorsements
“The real secret to becoming a haiku poet is to start writing haiku.”
From the foreword by Aubrie Cox

“For many years Michael Dylan Welch’s essays on haiku have guided newcomers and seasoned poets alike. With characteristic authority and humor, Becoming a Haiku Poet is yet another of his important contributions to the study and understanding of haiku poetry.”
Charles Trumbull, editor emeritus of Modern Haiku

“Michael Dylan Welch’s knowledge and experience with haiku is recognized internationally. He always has time to assist new poets starting out on the haiku path, to engage in a conversation about poetics, or to recommend a current essay or book. He never tires of answering the question: What is a haiku, anyway? Becoming a Haiku Poet is Michael’s concise and informative answer.” Terry Ann Carter, president of Haiku Canada

Becoming a Haiku Poet by Michael Dylan Welch

From reader reviews:

Ashley McKay:

What do you with regards to book? It is not important along with you? Or just adding material when you need something to explain what yours problem? How about your spare time? Or are you busy particular person? If you don't have spare time to try and do others business, it is make one feel bored faster. And you have extra time? What did you do? Every person has many questions above. They need to answer that question because just their can do which. It said that about e-book. Book is familiar in each person. Yes, it is correct. Because start from on kindergarten until university need this particular Becoming a Haiku Poet to read.

Evelyn Nielson:

This Becoming a Haiku Poet book is simply not ordinary book, you have it then the world is in your hands. The benefit you get by reading this book is usually information inside this guide incredible fresh, you will get information which is getting deeper an individual read a lot of information you will get. This particular Becoming a Haiku Poet without we recognize teach the one who studying it become critical in pondering and analyzing. Don't end up being worry Becoming a Haiku Poet can bring if you are and not make your carrier space or bookshelves' come to be full because you can have it inside your lovely laptop even mobile phone. This Becoming a Haiku Poet having great arrangement in word and layout, so you will not really feel uninterested in reading.

Michael Carr:

Information is provisions for individuals to get better life, information these days can get by anyone on everywhere. The information can be a understanding or any news even a huge concern. What people must be consider if those information which is from the former life are challenging to be find than now is taking seriously which one would work to believe or which one often the resource are convinced. If you find the unstable resource then you obtain it as your main information you will see huge disadvantage for you. All of those possibilities will not happen in you if you take Becoming a Haiku Poet as your daily resource information.

Rosalie Castillo:

Your reading 6th sense will not betray you actually, why because this Becoming a Haiku Poet publication written by well-known writer who knows well how to make book which can be understand by anyone who all read the book. Written within good manner for you, leaking every ideas and publishing skill only for eliminate your personal hunger then you still hesitation Becoming a Haiku Poet as good book not just by the cover but also by the content. This is one reserve that can break don't ascertain book by its handle, so do you still needing an additional sixth sense to pick this specific!? Oh come on your studying sixth sense already told you so why you have to listening to an additional sixth sense.