Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart

Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart

by Patricia Donegan
Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart

Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart

by Patricia Donegan

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Overview

A collection of 108 haiku poems to heighten awareness and deepen our appreciation for the ordinary in everyday life

Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in just three lines, can be miraculous in its power to articulate the profundity of the simplest moment—and for that reason haiku can be a useful tool for bringing us to a heightened awareness of our lives.

Here, the poet Patricia Donegan shares her experience of the haiku form as a way of insight that anyone can use to slow down and uncover the beauty of ordinary moments. She presents 108 haiku poems—on themes such as honesty, transience, and compassion—and offers commentary on each as an impetus to meditation and as a key to unlocking the wonder in what we find right before us.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781590307588
Publisher: Shambhala
Publication date: 10/12/2010
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 683,869
Product dimensions: 5.22(w) x 7.45(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Patricia Donegan is a poet, translator, and promoter of haiku as an awareness practice. She was a faculty member of East-West poetics at Naropa University under Allen Ginsberg and Chögyam Trungpa; a student of Japanese haiku master Seishi Yamaguchi; and a Fulbright scholar to Japan. She is a meditation teacher, the poetry editor for Kyoto Journal, and a member of the Haiku Society of America. Her haiku works include Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart, Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master  (co-translated with Yoshie Ishibashi), and Haiku: Asian Arts for Creative Kids. Her poetry collections include Without Warning, Bone Poems, and Hot Haiku.
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