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    <body><![CDATA[I had read a review of this book when it was first published, but I didn't get around to buying it until I came back to Japan and joined an English haiku circle.<br/>Now I'm a huge fan.  The images are beautiful and Richard (as we call him in my haiku circle) strictly follows the 5-7-5 form.  I rer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78616846">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's amazing the beauty that the writer was able to see, feel and articulate at the end of his life.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very different side to the man who created Bigger Thomas.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book.  Turn to it often.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't know that Richard Wright wrote haiku. But he did. Nearly every day. These are poems he picked to be published, and they are wonderful. Not traditional haiku, but amazing in their scope, in their intimacy, and in their immediacy. Wright may not have been writing about nature, but he was writ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2640375">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned to love Haiku with this book. Its a rigid format, but forces a certain mindful quality of word choice from the author that engenders little golden surprises of brilliance scattered throughout the book and genre. Beautiful to me in that very trivial, everyday things are noticed and embraced...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/154922">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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