| Book of Haikus | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Jack Kerouac |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Penguin Poets |
| Genre(s) | Poetry |
| Publisher | Penguin Group |
| Publication date | 2003 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 200 |
| ISBN | 9780142002643 |
| OCLC Number | 50503314 |
| Dewey Decimal | 811/.54 21 |
| LC Classification | 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 on small notebooks he could carry around.[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.