 First edition | |
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Penguin Poets |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publisher | Penguin Group |
Publication date | 2003 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 200 |
| ISBN | 978-0-14-200264-3 |
| OCLC | 50503314 |
| 811/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3521.E735 B66 2003 |
Book of Haikus is a collection of haiku poetry by Jack Kerouac. It was first published in 2003 and edited by Regina Weinreich. It consists of some 500 poems selected from a corpus of nearly 1,000 haiku jotted down by Kerouac in small notebooks.[1]
Although most of the poetry in Book of Haikus is original, some haiku are paraphrased in Kerouac's prose works:
The top of Jack
Mountain—done in
By golden clouds[2]
also recurs in The Dharma Bums.[3] The collection also contains a handful of haiku published earlier, for instance in Scattered Poems.