Book of Haikus

Book of Haikus

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author = Jack Kerouac
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country = United States
language = English
series = Penguin Poets
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genre = Poetry
publisher = Penguin Group
pub_date = 2003
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media_type = Print (paperback)
pages = 200
isbn = 9780142002643
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Book of Haikus is a collection of haiku poetry by Jack Kerouac. It was first published in 2003 and edited by Regina Weinreich. It consists of some 500 poems selected from a corpus of nearly 1,000 haiku jotted down by Kerouac on small notebooks he could carry around. [Regina Weinreich. Introduction. "Book of Haikus". By Jack Kerouac. New York: Penguin, 2003. xi. ISBN 9780142002643]

Although most of the poetry in "Book of Haikus" is original, some haiku are paraphrased in Kerouac's prose works:

The top of Jack
Mountain—done in
By golden clouds ["Book of Haikus" 87.]

also recurs in The Dharma Bums. [Jack Kerouac. "The Dharma Bums". Cutchogue, NY: Buccanneer Books, 1976. 186.] The collection also contains a handful of haiku published earlier, for instance in Scattered Poems.

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