Download or read book Nick Virgilio: Collected Haiku 1963 - 2012 written by Nicholas Virgilio and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas A. ("Nick") Virgilio (1928?-?1989) was among the most prolific and most honored haiku poets in America during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, the decades in which a new genre of English-language haiku was created. There has never been a complete edition of his published haiku. Public knowledge of his work rests on the two editions of his Selected Haiku (1985 and 1988), the posthumous Nick Virgilio: A Life in Haiku (2012), and a dozen anthologies that include a slim canon of often-reprinted poems. In the absence of a collected edition of his known published poems, it is nearly impossible to form an accurate critical assessment of the value of his contribution to American haiku. This edition fills that absence and connects with an online archive of some 20,000 drafts and fragments of Virgilio's poems and letters, giving access to the complete body of his published and unpublished works.