Book of Haikus

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.