{"product_id":"walden-by-haiku-9780820332888","title":"Walden by Haiku","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this intriguing literary experiment  Ian Marshall presents a collection of nearly three hundred haiku that he extracted from Henry David Thoreaus Walden and documents the underlying similarities between Thoreaus prose and the art of haiku. Although Thoreau would never have encountered the Japanese haiku tradition  the way in which the most important ideas in Walden find expression in the most haikulike language suggests that Thoreau at Walden Pond and the haiku master Basho at his \"old pond\" might have drunk at the same well. Walden and the tradition of haiku share an aesthetic that embodies ideas in natural images  dissolves boundaries between self and world  emphasizes simplicity  and honors both solitude and humble  familiar objects. Marshall examines each of these aesthetic principles and offers a relevant collection of \"found\" haiku. In the second part of the book  he explains his process of finding the haiku in the text  breaking down each chapter of Walden to highlight the imagery and poetic language embedded in the most powerful passages. Marshalls exploration not only provides a fresh perspective on haiku  but also sheds new light on Thoreaus much-studied text and lays the foundation for a clearer understanding of the aesthetics of American nature writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924699775029,"sku":"ByrdShop_0820332887","price":249.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780820332888.jpg?v=1794139631","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/walden-by-haiku-9780820332888","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}