Asian Poetry - Peter Pauper Press editions!

Vintage Peter Pauper Press editions always demonstrate a quiet, but easily discernible attention to quality and aesthetic appeal that I find delightful. "The haiku is a seventeen-syllable poetic form that has been written in Japan for three hundred years. It has been enormously popular without becoming banal. For the haiku does not make a complete poem in our usual sense; it is a lightly sketched picture the reader is expected to fill in from his own memories. Often there are two pictures, and the reader is expected to respond with heightened awareness of the mystical relationship between non-related subjects... ... Because the poem is tiny does not mean that it is simple. A good haiku is apt to be not only subtle but complex, with inner meanings..." $20 individually, or $50 for all three together. - Japanese Haiku - The Jade Flute: Chinese Poems in Prose - The Four Seasons: Japanese Haiku Second Series Published 1956, 1960, and 1958, respectively, Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York Hardcover. Approx. 4.5x7.5in. Name of a previous owner inscribed on front page of The Four Seasons. Otherwise in good vintage condition.