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Title: Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac, Regina Weinreich, Amy Goldman Koss ISBN: 0-14-200264-X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Beautiful Collection: Terrible Presentation
Comment: I'm giving this book three stars, though Kerouac rightly deserves 5, and Regina Weinreich just as many for her wonderful introduction and efforts to gather nearly all of JK's known Haiku-based poems. My low rating is for the book's design, presentation, and production--not insignificant matters for our eventual interest and overall impression of a work of writing. Design is not separate from our enjoyment of the work, and here we see how design can sabotage the wonderful and various occasions condensed into Kerouac's "short and sweet sudden jump[s] of thought." As a reader I am shocked when I turn from a beautiful grouping of words like "Blowing in an afternoon wind, /on a white fence,/ A cobweb," close the book in order to look out the window at the world just described, and then look down to see: A Clown, a scrawled caricature of a man, and one dashed off in all haste and without any insight into the character of the writer; the funny little beatnik letters, and disgustingly wallpaperish patterns on the back cover. Everything about the book cover screams for me to run away. Not to mention that every copy in the bookstore was manufactured badly--so that the printing on every page slants, as if falling into the binding. The cover portrait is a terrible way of pandering to image recognition rather than the quiet lyric intensity of the poems. Penguin's design office should be ashamed for reintroducing stereotypes which distance us from this generation of great artists and writers, writers who helped to wake up America from its general somnolence. Kerouac's memory, and American Poetry deserve a better face than this.
Rating: 1
Summary: Low rating for Penguin, not Kerouac
Comment: I want to give a strong second to the previous reviewers comments about the sloppy printing and cheap production values of this and other Kerouac books by Penguin. It's a shame that they have control of so many of Kerouac's most important works. Kerouac's literary executor really ought to rethink the contract. Grove Press does a beautiful job on the Kerouac volumes that they publish and uses paper that will last a lifetime, not this less than newprint junk that Penguin uses. You guys should be ashamed.
Rating: 4
Summary: Haiku finds American form - Beat!
Comment: The other Beat poets generally looked to him as a master, but Jack Kerouac's general reputation will probably always be that of a novelist, albeit a mad one who did little prosaic and much prosodic. Even though he created significant swaths of poetry - within his famous prose and elsewhere, it is a small circle that considers him a poet.
Anyone in that group would like this book.
It shows how far his poems would roam yet stay with a form, the haiku form. This is known to readers of Scattered Poems and Poems All Sizes, and buffs familiar with his recordings with Al Cohn and Zoot Sims - but a better view of the amount of haiku Kerouac had within him is at hand.
A new collectipon of about 700 haikus now appears. Book of Haikus, includes works from several stages in Kerouac's career, and stands well with his other books of poems.
His approach to haiku form, like his approach to blues form, was creative. His first big step was to throw out the syllabic conventions. The classic syllable count of the Japanese form, he reasoned, worked for haiku poems in the Japanese language, but not for English maybe.
For Kerouac, description was key. Encounter with object or experience was key. It is here in Book of Haikus. In haiku bulk.
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Title: Writing and Enjoying Haiku: A Hands on Guide by Jane Reichhold ISBN: 4770028865 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Some of the Dharma by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0140287078 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (Pocket Poets Series) by Jack Kerouac, Eric Mottram, Anne Waldman ISBN: 0872862917 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Take a Deep Breath: The Haiku Way to Inner Peace by Sylvia Forges-Ryan, Edward Ryan ISBN: 4770028857 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Kerouac and Friends: A Beat Generation Album by Fred W. McDarrah, Timothy S. McDarrah ISBN: 1560254807 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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