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Presenting more than two hundred of the greatest haiku ever written about the game.
W. W. Norton
April 2007
On Sale: April 1, 2007
240 pages
ISBN: 0393062198
EAN: 9780393062199
Hardcover
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Fiction Poetry
One of the most unusual baseball books of the 2007 season,
this remarkable new collection, which includes poems from
both America and Japan, captures perfectly the thrill of
baseball—a double play, a game of catch, or the hushed pause
as a pitcher looks in before hurling his pitch. Like haiku,
the game is concerned with the nature of the seasons: joyous
in the spring, thrilling in summer's heat, ripening with the
descent of fall, and remembered fondly in winter. Featuring
the work of Jack Kerouac, the king of the Beat writers, who
penned the first American baseball haiku, and Alan
Pizzarelli, a major American haiku poet, the collection also
includes Masaoka Shiki, one of the four great pillars of
Japanese haiku, who fell in love with baseball when he was a
student in Tokyo. Baseball Haiku, a literary and baseball
treasure, will make a marvelous gift for the baseball fan in
your family.
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