Download or read book The Haiku Form written by Joan Giroux and published by Rutland, Vt. : C.E. Tuttle. This book was released on 1974 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief guide to the Japanese poetic form focuses on the history of haiku and the problems of translation and on writing original haiku in English. Discussions of the variations which haiku may take, of the development of poetic techniques, and of the understanding of the haiku moment are interspersed with characteristic poems tranlated from the Japanese and with original haiku in English.