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Book of Haikus

Book by Jack Kerouac

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 in small notebooks.[1]

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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[2]

also recurs in The Dharma Bums.[3] The collection also contains a handful of haiku published earlier, for instance in Scattered Poems.

Notes

  1. [1]
    Regina Weinreich. Introduction. Book of Haikus. By Jack Kerouac. New York: Penguin, 2003. xi. ISBN 978-0-14-200264-3
  2. [2]
    Book of Haikus 87.
  3. [3]
    Jack Kerouac. The Dharma Bums. Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer Books, 1976. 186.
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