Come Home to Haiku: 1310 Short Poems and Their Importance (Paperback)
It takes a lot of skill and a huge amount of experience to say something very profound in very few words. Some people never manage this By this token, the haiku poetry format has the greatest meaning and significance per word of any format of poems. This is definitely true if you go through the poems in this volume. The simplicity of nature, the starkness of loss, the innocent happiness of children: all of them are brought into our lives with these haiku.