Jane Reichhold

I'm usually not much for writing guides, but this one was much more enjoyable, and far less uptight about "true" haiku than I expected it to be. A good conversation partner for William Higginson's Haiku Handbook.

Haiku seems like easy to write but have a lot to think in , even in other languages that arent Japanese .
Recomendation to this book granted if you want to try something new as a poet, you can see this book and then try something like in the book "6 words wonder" to apply some restrictive ideas.

Traditional haiku include a word, called kigo, that defines the poem's season. There are many Japanese kigo dictionaries, including hundreds of season-appropriate words. For example, "snow" defines winter, "cherry blossoms" are associated with spring. Up to now, English has not had an equivalent kigo dictionary, and Jane Reichhold's collection fills a large gap. She provides not only words grouped by season, but examples that will be useful to English-language haiku poets at all levels.