An American diplomat traveling the world over is grounded by a chance encounter with a haiku group.
Abigail Friedman was an American diplomat in Tokyo, not a writer. A chance encounter leads her to a haiku group, where she discovers poetry that anyone can enjoy writing. Her teacher and fellow haiku group members instruct her in seasonal flora and fauna, and gradually she learns to describe the world in plain words, becoming one of the millions in Japan who lead a haiku life.
This is the author's story of her literary and cultural voyage, and more: it is an invitation to readers to form their own neighborhood haiku groups and, like her, learn to see the world anew.
- Price: $19.95
- Pages: 224
- Carton Quantity: 36
- Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
- Imprint: Stone Bridge Press
- Publication Date: 1st May 2006
- Trim Size: 5.5 x 8 in
- ISBN: 9781933330044
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
POETRY / Asian / Japanese
REFERENCE / Writing Skills
"...A deft and seamless merging of genres: at once memoir, travel literature, and an unpretentious guide onto the terrain of Japanese poetry. It will appeal not just to poetry lovers, but to all readers who are curious about the world beyond their own borders."
—Foreword Magazine"Friedman is an appealing guide through an alternate Japan where modern people make poems about teacups and temples but also about skyscrapers and kidney surgery."
—East Bay Express"The book is not designed to make the reader a poet, but it does, perhaps, help us to pay more attention to our poetical eye."
—BiblioBuffet"The Haiku Apprentice gives the reader an original, thoughtful and personal glimpse of one expat’s productive encounter with Japan."
—Metropolis"...Notable for its frankness and enthusiasm...Friedman has made a lively narrative out of the things she learned..."
—The Japan Times
An American diplomat traveling the world over is grounded by a chance encounter with a haiku group.
Abigail Friedman was an American diplomat in Tokyo, not a writer. A chance encounter leads her to a haiku group, where she discovers poetry that anyone can enjoy writing. Her teacher and fellow haiku group members instruct her in seasonal flora and fauna, and gradually she learns to describe the world in plain words, becoming one of the millions in Japan who lead a haiku life.
This is the author's story of her literary and cultural voyage, and more: it is an invitation to readers to form their own neighborhood haiku groups and, like her, learn to see the world anew.
- Price: $19.95
- Pages: 224
- Carton Quantity: 36
- Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
- Imprint: Stone Bridge Press
- Publication Date: 1st May 2006
- Trim Size: 5.5 x 8 in
- ISBN: 9781933330044
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
POETRY / Asian / Japanese
REFERENCE / Writing Skills
"...A deft and seamless merging of genres: at once memoir, travel literature, and an unpretentious guide onto the terrain of Japanese poetry. It will appeal not just to poetry lovers, but to all readers who are curious about the world beyond their own borders."
—Foreword Magazine"Friedman is an appealing guide through an alternate Japan where modern people make poems about teacups and temples but also about skyscrapers and kidney surgery."
—East Bay Express"The book is not designed to make the reader a poet, but it does, perhaps, help us to pay more attention to our poetical eye."
—BiblioBuffet"The Haiku Apprentice gives the reader an original, thoughtful and personal glimpse of one expat’s productive encounter with Japan."
—Metropolis"...Notable for its frankness and enthusiasm...Friedman has made a lively narrative out of the things she learned..."
—The Japan Times