Book Signing: US Diplomat and Her Haiku Book
The Japan-America Society and the Japan Information & Culture Center are co-hosting a book discussion and signing with US Consul General Abigail Friedman, the author of a new book on the world of haiku, The Haiku Apprentice.
The gathering will be held on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 6:30 pm at the JICC auditorium in The Lafayette Center III at 1155 21st Street NW.
A chance encounter during her assignment to the US Embassy in Tokyo led Ms Friedman to a haiku group -- and to the "haiku life." This is the author's story of her literary and cultural voyage, and more: it is an invitation to readers to form their own neighborhood haiku groups and, like her, learn to see the world anew.
In The Haiku Apprentice we encounter the real world of Japanese haiku today. No other book in English gives such rich insight into how it feels to participate in haiku writing, Japanese-style. Friedman’s engagingly clear prose also directly addresses many of the questions about haiku that have bothered readers and writers of haiku in English and other languages for decades. . . . For its honesty, accuracy, and the pure pleasure of reading, Abigail Friedman’s book joins that small collection of books about haiku that one can use for ready reference and continuing enjoyment.
The book includes a special appendix on writing haiku in English, starting your own haiku group, and further reading on haiku, plus questions for reading groups.
For reservations, email the JICC at jiccrsvpspring06@embjapan.org
To pre-order the book, please download the order form at http://www.us-japan.org/dc/programs/2006Haiku.pdf and submit it to the Japan America Society.
The gathering will be held on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 6:30 pm at the JICC auditorium in The Lafayette Center III at 1155 21st Street NW.
A chance encounter during her assignment to the US Embassy in Tokyo led Ms Friedman to a haiku group -- and to the "haiku life." This is the author's story of her literary and cultural voyage, and more: it is an invitation to readers to form their own neighborhood haiku groups and, like her, learn to see the world anew.
In The Haiku Apprentice we encounter the real world of Japanese haiku today. No other book in English gives such rich insight into how it feels to participate in haiku writing, Japanese-style. Friedman’s engagingly clear prose also directly addresses many of the questions about haiku that have bothered readers and writers of haiku in English and other languages for decades. . . . For its honesty, accuracy, and the pure pleasure of reading, Abigail Friedman’s book joins that small collection of books about haiku that one can use for ready reference and continuing enjoyment.
The book includes a special appendix on writing haiku in English, starting your own haiku group, and further reading on haiku, plus questions for reading groups.
For reservations, email the JICC at jiccrsvpspring06@embjapan.org
To pre-order the book, please download the order form at http://www.us-japan.org/dc/programs/2006Haiku.pdf and submit it to the Japan America Society.
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