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Haiku Activities Patricia Donegan

Haiku Activities By Patricia Donegan

Haiku Activities by Patricia Donegan


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Summary

"Asian Arts and Crafts for Creative Kids" is a series which provides a fun and educational introduction to Asian culture and art. Through hands-on projects readers will engage in activities that should enable them to easily acquire a better understanding of haiku.

Haiku Activities Summary

Haiku Activities by Patricia Donegan

"Asian Arts and Crafts for Creative Kids" is a series which provides a fun and educational introduction to Asian culture and art and is specifically aimed at children from the ages of seven to twelve. Through hands-on projects readers will engage in activities that should enable them to easily acquire a better understanding of each art form. Art forms such as haiku and origami are becoming increasingly popular both in the school curriculum, and as a tool for introducing children to poetry and Asian culture. By nurturing children's abilities in areas such as haiku and origami, this series brings new cultural and educational dimensions to the lives of young readers. Children, their parents and their teachers should love these celebrations of Asian culture.

Haiku Activities Reviews

"A glossary and a haiku resource guide round out this excellent choice for children as well as teachers seeking fresh materials for poetry units." --Booklist

About Patricia Donegan

Patricia Donegan served on the faculty of East-West poetics at Naropa University under Allen Ginsberg and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche was a student of haiku master Seishi Yamaguchi, and a Fulbright scholar to Japan. She is a meditation teacher, previous poetry editor for Kyoto Journal, and a longtime member of the Haiku Society of America. Her haiku works include Love Haiku: Japanese Poems of Yearning, Passion & Remembrance (co-translated with Yoshie Ishibashi), Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart, Haiku: Asian Arts for Creative Kids, and Chiyo-ni Woman Haiku Master (co-translated with Yoshie Ishibashi). Her poetry collections include: Hot Haiku, Bone Poems, Without Warning, Heralding the Milk Light, and haiku selections in various anthologies.

She won first prize in the 1998 Mainichi International Haiku Contest and won a Merit Book Award for translation from the Haiku Society of America for her book on Chiyo-ni, also in 1998. Her books on haiku have combined scholarship and insight in reaching young and old to inspire and sustain a lifelong interesting in haiku poetry, in both Japanese and English.

Additional information

GOR003717822
9780804835015
0804835012
Haiku Activities by Patricia Donegan
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Tuttle Publishing
2004-01-01
64
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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