How to Haiku

This haiku book provides an invaluable guide to developing your own haiku-writing skills, with clear explanations, brilliant examples, and innovative writing exercises.

It also offers an introduction to related Japanese poetic forms including:

• Senryu—commentaries on human nature that are often humorous or ironic
• Haibun—short, autobiographical narratives accompanied by a haiku
• Tanka—imaginative poems ...