240 pages
English language
Published Jan. 24, 2004 by Enitharmon Press.
Book of Haikus
by Jack Kerouac
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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.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
also recurs in The Dharma Bums. The collection also contains a handful of haiku published earlier, for instance in Scattered Poems.