Haiku Mind

108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart

Patricia Donegan

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Shambhala Publications Inc
15 November 2009

Poetry by individual poets

108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart

A collection of 108 haiku poems to heighten awareness and deepen our appreciation for the ordinary in everyday life

Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in just three lines, can be miraculous in its power to articulate the profundity of the simplest moment-and for that reason haiku can be a useful tool for bringing us to a heightened awareness of our lives.

Here, the poet Patricia Donegan shares her experience of the haiku form as a way of insight that anyone can use to slow down and uncover the beauty of ordinary moments. She presents 108 haiku poems-on themes such as honesty, transience, and compassion-and offers commentary on each as an impetus to meditation and as a key to unlocking the wonder in what we find right before us.

By: Patricia Donegan
Imprint: Shambhala Publications Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 191mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 261g
ISBN: 9781590307588
ISBN 10: 1590307585
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 November 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Patricia Donegan is a poet, translator, and promoter of haiku as an awareness practice. She was a faculty member of East-West poetics at Naropa University under Allen Ginsberg and Ch gyam Trungpa; a student of Japanese haiku master Seishi Yamaguchi; and a Fulbright scholar to Japan. She is a meditation teacher, the poetry editor for Kyoto Journal, and a member of the Haiku Society of America. Her haiku works include Haiku Mind- 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart, Chiyo-ni- Woman Haiku Master (co-translated with Yoshie Ishibashi), and Haiku- Asian Arts for Creative Kids. Her poetry collections include Without Warning, Bone Poems, and Hot Haiku.

Reviews for Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart

“Haiku Mind contains the best—the most insightful—commentary on haiku since the great works of R. H. Blyth. If you want to know what haiku is about, what a haiku can do, why haiku are important, read this book. Patricia Donegan looks into the heart of haiku by exploring outstanding individual examples with a perceptive, aware, and sensitive eye. The literary essay has never known finer moments.”—Cor van den Heuvel, editor of The Haiku Anthology