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.Regina Weinreich. Introduction. Book of Haikus. By Jack Kerouac. New York: Penguin, 2003. xi.
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 cloudsBook of Haikus 87.
also recurs in The Dharma Bums.Jack Kerouac. The Dharma Bums. Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer Books, 1976. 186. The collection also contains a handful of haiku published earlier, for instance in Scattered Poems.
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