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 full of highly personal, emotional expressions Haiga drawings accompanied by commentary in haiku