The Haiku Foundation, the leading conservator of American haiku, has created the largest anthology of English-language haiku ever assembled. Montage: The Book features over a thousand haiku written by a variety of established haiku experts.

This book is amazing – it is really the Who’s Who of English-language haiku.

I am learning about haiku and Montage is really helping me to understand this beautiful art form.  Reading these perfect poems helps me to learn how to structure mine and find my haiku voice.

Peggy Willis Lyles, a former Woodrow Wilson Fellow and an associate editor of The Heron’s Nest, commented in the forward of Montage, “Those new to haiku could derive an education; those already deeply involved should find validation of their commitment.”

For those who think that haiku is only poetry for the elite, Montage will help them appreciate how down-to-earth this ancient art form really is. This book is designed to take a reader through a full year of haiku, giving them 53 installments (one for each week and an extra for the New Year).

Jim Kacian, award winning poet and founder of The Haiku Foundation said, “What makes Montage: The Book so vital is its unique conception—a thematic treatment of an idea or issue as explored by three illustrious practitioners of the art of haiku—and then its perfect realization of that conception. In this way we feel the power and range of the genre itself, and, at the same time, the individual responses and voices that are possible within it.”

Haiku is an art form that spans hundreds of years. When asked to define a haiku, Kacian said, “Haiku is a brief poem, which records an experience of a moment of revelation into the nature of the world, in an effort to share it with others.”

Montage: The Book is only available through membership to The Haiku Foundation – http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/publications/montage-the-book/ However if you go to their site you will find an online version that is magnificent!