| Book of Haikus | |
| Border: | yes |
| Author: | Jack Kerouac |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Penguin Poets |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Publisher: | Penguin Group |
| Pub Date: | 2003 |
| Media Type: | Print (paperback) |
| Pages: | 200 |
| Isbn: | 978-0-14-200264-3 |
| Dewey: | 811/.54 21 |
| Congress: | PS3521.E735 B66 2003 |
| Oclc: | 50503314 |
Book of Haikus is a collection of haiku poetry by Jack Kerouac. It was first published in 2003 and edited by Regina Weinreich. It consists of some 500 poems selected from a corpus of nearly 1,000 haiku jotted down by Kerouac in small notebooks.[1]
Although most of the poetry in Book of Haikus is original, some haiku are paraphrased in Kerouac's prose works:
The top of Jack
Mountain—done in
By golden clouds[2]
also recurs in The Dharma Bums.[3] The collection also contains a handful of haiku published earlier, for instance in Scattered Poems.