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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “bruce ross”
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  • The Portable Medieval Reader

    by Various ...
    Series series Portable Library
    In their introduction to this anthology, James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin remind us that "no area of the past is dead if we are alive to it. The variety, the complexity, the sheer humanity of the middle ages live most meaningfully in their own authentic voices." The Portable Medieval Reader assembles an entire chorus of those voices—of kings, warriors, prelates, merchants, artisans, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Writing Haiku

    A Beginner's Guide to Composing Japanese Poetry - Includes Tanka, Renga, Haiga, Senryu and Haibun

    by Bruce Ross ...
    A world of dewAnd within every dewdropA world of struggleThe iconic three-line haiku form is increasingly popular today as people embrace its simplicity and grace—and its connections to the Japanese ethos of mindfulness and minimalism. Say more with fewer words.This practical guide by poet and teacher Bruce Ross shows you how to capture a fleeting moment, like painting a picture with words, and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • How to Haiku

    A Writer's Guide to Haiku and Related Forms

    by Bruce Ross ...
    This haiku book provides an invaluable guide to developing your own haiku-writing skills, with clear explanations, brilliant examples, and innovative writing exercises.It also offers an introduction to related Japanese poetic forms including:Senryu-commentaries on human nature that are often humorous or ironicHaibun-short, autobiographical narratives accompanied by a haikuTanka-imaginative poems ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Edit Yourself: A Manual for Everyone Who Words with Words

    A Manual for Everyone Who Words with Words

    by Bruce Ross-Larson ...
    "A strong new entry for the reference shelf of anyone who writes to be understood—or would like to."—Pittsburgh PressIn the first part of this useful book, the author shows how to solve common problems of writing. The reader will learn how to recognize common problems of writing. The reader will learn how to recognize words and phrases that should be cut; how to shorten cumbersome sentences; how ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • From Dawn to Dusk to Daylight

    A Journey Through Depression’S Solitude

    by Bruce Ross ...
    Bruce Ross knew something was wrong. He felt displaced and isolated from friends, family, and society. He had no one to turn to, and so he tried to cope with it himself. The fact that he had a disease called depression never entered his mind. He, like so many people, thought that only other people suffered from depression, not someone who appeared to be a well-adjusted, middle class person.From ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • American Haiku

    New Readings

    by Randy Brooks, Jim Kacian, Heejung Kim, Toshio Kimura, Bruce Ross, Virginia Whatley Smith, Ce Rosenow, Yoshinobu Hakutani, Toru Kiuchi, John Zheng0 ...
    American Haiku: New Readings explores the history and development of haiku by American writers, examining individual writers. In the late nineteenth century, Japanese poetry influenced through translation the French Symbolist poets, from whom British and American Imagist poets, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, T. E. Hulme, and John Gould Fletcher, received stimulus. Since the first English-language hokku ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Haiku, Other Arts, and Literary Disciplines

    by Noboru Fukushima, Heejung Kim, Bruce Ross, Tom Lynch, Toshio Kimura, Ce Rosenow, John Zheng ...
    Haiku, Other Arts, and Literary Disciplines investigates the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and determines the relationships between haiku and other arts, such as essay writing, painting, and music, as well as the backgrounds of haiku, such as literary movements, philosophies, and religions that underlie haiku composition. By analyzing the poets who played major roles in the development ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Journey to the Interior

    American Versions of Haibun

    by Bruce Ross ...
    This collection of American poetry done in the Japanese Haibun style is a wonderful addition for any lover of haiku or other eloquent poetry styles.Haibun is a beautiful Japanese form of autobiographical poetic prose accompanied by verse, usually haiku. Here, Bruce Ross, past president of the Haiku Society of America invites us on a journey of self-discovery with over twenty-five North American ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Haiku Moment

    An Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku

    by Bruce Ross ...
    Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu.This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses.Too impetuous to be ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Riveting Reports

    by Bruce Ross-Larson ...
    Series series
    Whether you are composing a Web page on the Internet or agonizing over an annual budget report, these books are the key to clarity, accuracy, and economy in any writing task.Covers everything from the first spark of inspiration to the final draft. Writers will see how a series of careful questions will lead them to the messages of their reports, and will learn how to let those messages drive the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Powerful Paragraphs (The Effective Writing Series)

    by Bruce Ross-Larson ...
    Series series The Effective Writing Series
    Whether you are composing a Web page on the Internet or agonizing over an annual budget report, these books are the key to clarity, accuracy, and economy in any writing task.Explores the essentials of solid, point-based paragraphs, with chapters on unifying each paragraph around one point, developing paragraphs in a variety of interesting ways, binding sentences within the paragraph, and creating ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Stunning Sentences

    by Bruce Ross-Larson ...
    Series series The Effective Writing Series
    Whether you are composing a Web page on the Internet or agonizing over an annual budget report, these books are the key to clarity, accuracy, and economy in any writing task.Offers more than 100 model sentence types in a catalog format, giving writers many interesting and provocative ways to say what they mean. Writers looking for a more striking way to open a sentence will find these options: the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD