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The Healing Spirit of Haiku
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Manufacturer: North Atlantic Books
Author: David Rosen, Joel Weishaus
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Manufacturer: North Atlantic Books
Author: David Rosen, Joel Weishaus
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The Healing Spirit of Haiku Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.608
EAN: 9781556435300
ISBN: 1556435304
Label: North Atlantic Books
Manufacturer: North Atlantic Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2004-10-12
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Product Release Date: 2004-10-13
Studio: North Atlantic Books
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.608
EAN: 9781556435300
ISBN: 1556435304
Label: North Atlantic Books
Manufacturer: North Atlantic Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2004-10-12
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Product Release Date: 2004-10-13
Studio: North Atlantic Books
Editorial Review of The Healing Spirit of Haiku
For David H. Rosen and Joel Weishaus, haiku represents a healing union of intuition and sensation, past and present, self and other, ordinary and extraordinary, and current and ancient memories. In this simple, compelling book, the authors, who have lived and traveled extensively in Japan, offer 172 haikus that resonate with Zen Buddhist, Shinto, and Taoist insights. Underscoring the philosophy "moments, moments, that is life," the book takes readers beyond the ego into a healing realm of simple, archetypal words. This book is a haibun of psyche, an exchange of poetry and prose between two old friends who set out to accomplish a soulful journey together.
Customer Reviews of The Healing Spirit of Haiku
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Review Summary: To be read and reread.
Review: Through essential imagery and intelligent word craft, Dr. David Rosen, Joel Weishaus, and illustrator Arthur Okamura have co-created a profoundly reflective work that is housed within the subtle, delicate lacework of human mystery as it is captured in glimpses by this seasoned collaboration of poets and artists. Because this is a collaborative work, we see not only an individual human path through haiku, but how these separate individual paths inform a higher mystery as they converge, separate, fall into sync, compliment one another, press each other into further discovery. This is a book to be read and reread, straight through or in bits and pieces, to thumb through over morning tea, close your eyes and point to a haiku to meditate with during the day.
Most significant to me is the authors' meditation not only on haiku as a poetic form, but as a means of healing. These poets offer individual testimony of moments of archetypal breadth that are captured through the expansive snapshot of haiku, from the pangs of the death of ego to the surrender of the death of loved ones; and how a plate of pancakes can remind us of old wisdom.
Review Summary: To be read and reread.
Review: Through essential imagery and intelligent word craft, Dr. David Rosen, Joel Weishaus, and illustrator Arthur Okamura have co-created a profoundly reflective work that is housed within the subtle, delicate lacework of human mystery as it is captured in glimpses by this seasoned collaboration of poets and artists. Because this is a collaborative work, we see not only an individual human path through haiku, but how these separate individual paths inform a higher mystery as they converge, separate, fall into sync, compliment one another, press each other into further discovery. This is a book to be read and reread, straight through or in bits and pieces, to thumb through over morning tea, close your eyes and point to a haiku to meditate with during the day.
Most significant to me is the authors' meditation not only on haiku as a poetic form, but as a means of healing. These poets offer individual testimony of moments of archetypal breadth that are captured through the expansive snapshot of haiku, from the pangs of the death of ego to the surrender of the death of loved ones; and how a plate of pancakes can remind us of old wisdom.