Book written in French - A desire for haiku

Book - Un désir de haïku

Collection : Le Prunier
Number of pages : 112 pages
Format : 140 x 215
Publication date : May 2022
Language : French
ISBN : 978-2-35432-347-9

This book presents in a concise, sensitive and compact way what haiku is, in its essence and in its expression. The haiku, the author tells us, is the smallest poem designed to contain the world and the universe, each one of these tiny precious boxes where raw jewels lie. By grouping and describing the various elements that constitute haiku - its rules, its spirit, its feelings - the book familiarizes the reader with the subtlety of this artistic and spiritual expression.

It brings together some thirty short chapters, each of which attempts to decipher the mechanisms of haiku writing and makes us want to compose such poems ourselves. Sprinkled with haikus by the author and quotations from Japanese and Western authors, this little encyclopedia is neither a treatise nor an anthology, but an opening to this Way of poetry that is the writing of haikus.