Natalie Goldberg is the author of – Writing Down The Bones: Freeing The Writer Within – (1986); used as a textbook for writing courses nation wide It has sold over one million copies, and has been translated into fourteen languages.
She came to to talk about her recent work – Three Simple Lines. A Writers Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku She was Introduced to the art as a student at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics . Quoting her teacher, Allen Ginsberg, “The real test of a Haiku is when you hear one you feel a sensation of space, a small sensation of space, which is nothing less than God..”
She came to to talk about her recent work – Three Simple Lines. A Writers Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku She was Introduced to the art as a student at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics . Quoting her teacher, Allen Ginsberg, “The real test of a Haiku is when you hear one you feel a sensation of space, a small sensation of space, which is nothing less than God..”

If you read a good translation (of Haiku) it’s a whole world.


One cold day to another linked like a freight train. Cannot see the end.

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