Comments on: ‘Baseball Haiku’: World-Class Poems About the Seasons of a Sport http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/baseball-haiku-world-class-poems-about-the-seasons-of-a-sport/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 10 Jun 2013 02:28:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Miki http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/baseball-haiku-world-class-poems-about-the-seasons-of-a-sport/#comment-4541 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:59:43 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/baseball-haiku-world-class-poems-about-the-seasons-of-a-sport/#comment-4541 Interesting your commetn about using haikus to get adolescents interested in poetry and about the intimidation caused by long poems… I am no more an adolescent (still very childish though…), but I really don´t´like long poems, for me they are the contrary from what poetry should be: an instantaneous impression of life in words…
I don´t know if I´ll find a poet and a piublisher for my golf paintigs -I doubt I´ll make the effort…-, but a publisher just found me and my bullfight paintings, and I´ll get a wonderful calendar published in 2008 and 2009.. bullfight, wonderful haiku theme, too, from life to death within 17 words! But you see, you gave me an idea with your entry… i might write short poems to each of my bullfight paintings and have them published in the calendar… thanks!
Your blog is definitively very good, congratulations! The only problem I have is that I am commenting “blind”, most of the time I don´t know any of the people, events, etc you are referring too. Perhaps it is good, giving my comments a touch of obejctivity…

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/baseball-haiku-world-class-poems-about-the-seasons-of-a-sport/#comment-4540 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:24:08 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/baseball-haiku-world-class-poems-about-the-seasons-of-a-sport/#comment-4540 Golf WOULD be a great subject for haiku. I wonder if it’s played in Japan as much as baseball? (The editors might not have had enough good material for this book if they hadn’t been able to draw on the work of both American and Japanese poets.)

“Baseball Haiku” would be a great teaching aid for teachers who want to get adolescents interested in poetry, because the poems are so short that even children who feel intimidated by longer poems could get through and appreciate these.

Thanks so much for your comment … Hope you find a poet and publisher someday who can help you put together a great book of annotated golf paintings.

]]> By: Miki http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/baseball-haiku-world-class-poems-about-the-seasons-of-a-sport/#comment-4538 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:11:43 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/baseball-haiku-world-class-poems-about-the-seasons-of-a-sport/#comment-4538 Nature Motion Passion and Function
all together captured here and for ever
in a field of words

Pure Haikuism!
Seriously: what an excellent and original idea this book! IF it were about golf, I would definitively buy it… but before I would try to convince the authors to illustrate it with my golf paintings!

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