{"product_id":"book-of-haikus-9780142002643","title":"Book of Haikus","description":"\u003cb\u003eA compact collection of more than 500 poems from Jack Kerouac that reveal a lesser known but important side of his literary legacy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Above all, a haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi pastorella.\"\u003c\/i\u003e--Jack Kerouac \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRenowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Following the tradition of Basho, Buson, Shiki, Issa, and other poets, Kerouac experimented with this centuries-old genre, taking it beyond strict syllable counts into what he believed was the form's essence. He incorporated his \"American\" haiku in novels and in his correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBook of Haikus\u003c\/i\u003e, Kerouac scholar Regina Weinreich has supplemented a core haiku manuscript from Kerouac's archives with a generous selection of the rest of his haiku, from both published and unpublished sources.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack Kerouac\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Town and the City\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1950, but it was \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the \"Beat generation\" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Dharma Bums\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Subterraneans\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBig Sur\u003c\/i\u003e. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of \"one vast book,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Duluoz Legend\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRegina Weinreich\u003c\/b\u003e teaches in the Department of Humanities and Sciences at the School of Visual Arts in New York and has published widely in a range of periodicals. She is the author of Kerouac's \u003ci\u003eSpontaneous Poetics: A Study of the Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645364310290,"sku":"9780142002643","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a6325a03-16f4-4c6f-ab7f-b480f14b97b1.jpg?v=1733150267","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/book-of-haikus-9780142002643","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}