Three Simple Lines
A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku

Natalie Goldberg is a wonderful storyteller...taking readers on her journey to visit and experience the lives of her Haiku heroes, while uncovering influential underrepresented female haiku masters. She also shares, very candidly, her journey to become a author of haiku poetry. I thoroughly enjoyed......more

I had known for a while that Natalie was writing a book about haiku (disclaimer: I'm the Scott of the "Wanting to See" chapter), but till I read this, I was under the impression it was going to be a writing manual of sorts. It is not--but it is a "thinking manual," one that explains Natalie's "pilgr......more

Natalie Goldberg is the author of the how-to-write classic, Writing Down the Bones. Three Simple Lines begins with Natalie's venture into Japan, in search of the roots of the four masters of haiku. It's a book combining classic haiku, prose text, and recent (including those written by Goldberg) haik......more

Well known writing teacher, Natalie Goldberg turns her attention to one of the shortest forms creative writing can take….that of the haiku. This small volume focuses on the art of writing these 3 line poems which traditionally describe a spare moment in time and that often glean some kind of deeper......more

I’m a haiku innocent. This became clear when, deep into Three Simple Lines, I read this haiku by the author: This black pen feels meaty in a writer’s hand I loved it. Indeed, it was my favorite of all the haiku I’d seen so far in the book. But in the next paragraph Natalie Goldberg tells us that this......more