Ten writers for children. All with something to say.

5/18/09

Reading list

My present reading list contains titles such as Contemporary Linguistics, Language Development, and How Languages are Learned. Pretty exciting stuff if you're a Noam Chomsky or B.F. Skinner fan.

But I did just buy a book that's not on my assigned reading list. It's called haiku mind, and in glancing at it I see haikus by Jorge Luis Borges and Jack Kerouac. Kerouac's haiku is quite lovely:
The taste
of rain
- Why kneel?
The simplicity of the haikus and commentary is refreshing amd relaxing. And the best part is that I can read it without having to worry about being tested on the key points!

2 comments:

Christy said...

Chomsky, yes. Skinner, not so much. I LOVE haiku though and will look for this title. I took a haiku workshop at Stanford last year and some other titles I picked up include: The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, as well as A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen. It appeals to me that the book you mention has haiku by western authors too. I just put Haiku Mind on reserve at the library. Thanks, Diane!

betsy woods said...

Dianne,

I love this. Have you read the poet Robert Kelly? In his collection Lapis he has a poem titled "Fetters and Tethers". You might admire it.