Diane Di Prima & George Herms - Haiku

Haiku originated in New York City in 1964, when Beat Generation poet Diane di Prima gave West Coast assemblage artist George Herms a series of seasonal poems that would lead him to create a suite of woodcuts illustrating them.can't sleep: inside my head a new poemis starting to kick at night-- Diane di Prima, Haiku, SpringThis, the first bound book of Haiku, commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the poems' printing by Herms in 1967 and the formation of his LOVE Press.