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The Penguin Book of Haiku Becky Pick An outrageously original novel ofFirst Penguin volume Of best Japanese haiku Vivid translations Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its minimalism and brevity, usually running three lines in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen like observations about reality, in fact the haiku is much more: it can be erotic, funny, crude and mischievous.