10 Great Books On Haiku & Haibun

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Looking for books on writing haiku poetry?
Here’s a list of books that I recommend.

Six on writing and enjoying haiku.

1   Haibun A Writer’s Guide by Roberta Beary
Writing and Enjoying Haiku: A Hands-on Guideby Jane Reichhold
3   Haiku: A Poet’s Guide by Lee Gurga
4   The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku by William J. Higginson
5   The Haiku Seasons by William J. Higginson
6   How to Haiku: A Writer’s Guide to Haiku and Related Forms by Bruce Ross
7   The Heart of Haiku by Jane Hirshfield

Three outstanding collections of haiku; two historic and one contemporary.

8   The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets translated by Sam Hamill
9   The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology by Faubion Bowers
10   The Haiku Anthology edited by Cor van den Heuvel

Plus a collection of tanka.

11   The Forest I Know by Kala Ramesh

Listen to my conversation with Natalie Goldberg here.

Find my haiku here.

Keep Your Current Projects Visible

These are two book covers for projects I’m currently developing.

 

I create visual reminders for projects I’m currently working on. Then I place them in my working environment. They constantly prompt me to consider the work I’m developing at many times and in many moods. I sleep on it. I collect sketches and notes. I plan trips to make new exposures and list what I kind of material I’m looking for. I assemble relevant finished images in the series. I look for connections between images currently being made and images made in the past. I list many ways to develop the work.

What projects are you developing?

What kinds of visual reminders would be helpful to you?

What other things can you do to develop the work you want to do right now?

 

Learn more in my Storytelling resources.

Learn more in my creativity and digital photography workshops.

Book – Wynn Bullock Revelations

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“Wynn Bullock was one of the most significant photographers of the mid-twentieth century. A close friend of influential West Coast artists Ansel Adams and Edward Weston and a contemporary of Minor White and Frederick Sommer, Bullock created work marked by a distinct interest in experimentation, abstraction, and philosophical exploration. Bullock’s photography received early recognition in 1941, when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art staged his first solo exhibition. His mature work appeared in one-man shows at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; the Royal Photographic Society, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago, among other prestigious venues. Bullock’s pictures Let There Be Light and Child in Forest have become icons in the history of photography, following their prominent inclusion in The Family of Man, Edward Steichen’s landmark 1955 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.
Despite early acclaim, however, the true breadth and depth of Bullock’s career have remained largely in the shadows. Wynn Bullock: Revelations shines new light on this major photographer and offers the most comprehensive assessment of his career in nearly forty years. Produced by the High Museum of Art in partnership with the Center for Creative Photography this retrospective traces Bullock’s evolution, from his early experimental work of the 1940s through the mysterious black-and-white imagery of the 1950s and the color/light abstractions of the 1960s, and to his late metaphysical photographs of the 1970s. The book presents 110 images, including some from the Bullock Estate that have before never been published. An essay by the High’s curator of photography Brett Abbott explores the nuances of Bullock’s approach to photography and its fascinating relationship to the history of science and philosophy. The volume also includes an illustrated chronology, a bibliography, selected collections, an exhibitions history, a list of plates, and notes.”
Get the book here.
Find out about the exhibit here.
Read a collection of quotes by Wynn Bullock here.
Find out more about Wynn Bullock here.